I have had many difficulties since I started to learn English. Since I come from the south of China, I can not distinguish nasal sounds from non-nasals and they sound exactly the same in my dialect.
Thus, I had a hard time telling “night” from “light” at the very beginning. My poor memory also added to the difficulties when I decided to enlarge my vocabulary. English words were so elusive that I could only remember them for a while.
I have spared no efforts to overcome the difficulties and finally succeeded. In order to tell the slight difference between nasal sounds and non-nasals, I forced myself to speak mandarin everyday.
Whenever I started to speak English, I reminded myself the difference between “night” and “light”.
At first I felt it rather unnatural, but as I went on I was gradually accustomed to speaking in this way.
As for my wretched memory, I gave up mechanical memorization and tried many other new ways.
At last I found a most efficient way for me: memorizing English words by their stems and affixes. This is how I have overcome some difficulties in learning English.
我開始學英語時有很多困難。因為我來自中國南部，我分不清前鼻音和後鼻音而且在我們的方言中發音完全一樣。
因此，一開始我很難分辨“夜”與“光”。我的記憶力也不好也是一個問題當我決定擴大自己的辭彙量時。英語單詞是如此難以捉摸的，我只能夠記得他們一段時間。
我努力克服困難，最後終於成功了。為了分清楚前鼻音和後鼻音之間的細微差別，我強迫自己每天講國語。
每當我開始說英語時，我提醒自己區分“夜”和“光”的讀音。
起初我覺得很不自然，但當我繼續時我逐漸習慣於這樣說。
至於我的不太好的記憶力，我放棄了機械記憶和嘗試了許多新的方法。
最後我發現了對我來說一個最有效的方法：記憶英語單詞的詞幹和詞綴。這是我如何克服英語學習中的一些困難的方法。