The Choke Point of Learning English

    One month after being back from Sweden; two weeks after being back in Chungli.....,which is the city I don't like much. :[



Anyways, today what I wanna share with you guys is "Choke point". As humans, all of us would absolutely meet some difficulties in our lives. Everyone has its own barriers. It has no differences that everyone's adept at different things. However, a lot of time when the difficulties come to our lives, we're just full of remorse and blame God and man and anyone and anything.... But what's the point if we just give up ourselves and have no urge to make any progress? We should think what we could do to improve the current situation instead of whining or doing the things mentioned above. Especially when the thing you're working hard on is captivating to you.

    I'm curious what your first thinking is when seeing the word "choke point". Take myself as an example, my life has been full with choke points. What's different is that, in the past I regarded choke points as something very knotty, and now I think choke point could be the reminder of my lack of endeavor. As a language major, I always find myself in a quandary about my English learning. I, as what I've been doing, read, write, listen to music and speak in English and it appears that I don't make any progress in the recent two years (after graduating from senior high school). After noticing the thing that reading or writing a lot seemed not to make any improvements in my English ability, I started doubting whether what I've been doing is totally in vain. Nevertheless, in fact I didn't look through the things I wrote before really carefully and I didn't record when I spoke English and make a comparison with today. It just seems to be the same yet actually it's entirely different. What I'm trying to say is that the results of your efforts are always hard to be conscious of while at the same time the results of the mistakes you made are always extremely easy to be aware of. Although I still think I'm at the choke point of learning English, I try to look back and remind myself of keeping working hard.
 
   Willpower is believed one of the most important things when learning languages. But in my opinion, willpower is indispensable for everything. Obviously as what you could see I'm not really adept at English writing, but I tell myself to keep working hard on it. It's my willpower that urges me to constantly write in English. I'm not afraid that you know where my weakness is, for once people know what I'm not good at, I would be in a very stressed situation. As long as I feel stressed, the improvement would soon say hello in front of me. The more people know what my weakness is, the easier and sooner the improvement would be made. That's the reason why I only write my Blog in English.

    In a nutshell, choke point could be a good stuff. It all depends on what angles you look through things. You need to be good enough to be at the so-called choke point, don't you?. Things are able to be completely different when you look at them from different angles. CHOKE POINT IS AWESOME!

Oh, I really miss you guys..my Swedish friends :) How have you been lately ???