Month: November 2019

Studying English or any language in school, gets tiring. We grow up learning and practicing our native language. We hear and use it everyday which is why we’re so fluent in our own language. In this podcast it talks about a man who had to relearn his own language all over again due to a terrible tragedy. He had to learn everything all over again as if he was just a child. Nobody likes relearning something after they already learned it once. For instance, in high school if I failed a test I had another chance to retake it if I did all this extra practice and corrected my test. Math is like a whole other language so nobody likes relearning a unit. When you are motivated or have a purpose you can always accomplish what you think is unachievable, even if it’s a process.

I would personally always think of taking English classes every year of school, was unnecessary. After listening to this podcast, I never thought it was important to relearn the same subject and repeating every year. The bottom line is we’ll lose our language if we don’t practice more ethan we should everyday. Every year we learn new ways to go about writing an essay, or putting words together and expanding our vocabulary. English has never been my favorite subject, but after listening to this podcast, whether or not something tragic happens to someone, it’s important to practice language everyday everywhere you go.

In the future I expect language to only grow on me, meaning I will just get used to it over time and except it. I realize the importance of language and learning new ways to go about it. Imagining a world without language or words is hard for me to imagine. I think in the future I will apply what I learned since I was just a child, and just use it to my best ability to communicate to others around me. Without words none of us would be able to communicate with each other.

Chapter 7 in “They Say I say” talks mainly about why we care about the topics we write about, and who cares? It’s hard for any student to realize when they’re not being specific enough all writers do it, ot just students. We assume that the audience already knows what we’re talking about so we never go into full detail. The writing templates that were displayed in this chapter were most helpful in my opinion, when writing a thesis statement. Writing a thesis statement is crucial for any essay. Thesis statements need to be not only clear but specific. The point of the thesis of your paper is to prove your point throughout your paper. In conclusion, the point of this chapter was to pin point the question and address who cares about what you’re writing, and why are you writing what you’re writing.