Contest : Which English Language Skill Is The Most Difficult For You by @mashii-zen

As a Sri Lankan, my native language is Sinhala. Although it's not a much popular language, I really proud of my mother tongue as it is a aesthetic and affectionate language. But I believe that learning English is very much essential for our future betterment, when it comes to international level.

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My journey of learning English was started from my childhood. There was a English text book for each grade and I read those books willingly, but there wasn't any intention to learn English. At that time I learnt English just because I didn't want to be punished. Even though I didn't study well, I passed all my exams with good grades.

With time I realized that ignoring English wasn't helpful but learning it will. Afterwards I did a diploma in English in University of Sabaragamuwa and my current studies also conduct in English medium. So I think that I improved my skills in English language up to some level, but still I have some difficulties in speaking and other skills. For the contest I prefer speaking as the hardest one for me.

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When considering about the speaking, it's not completely about the knowledge. Though I know I can speak, I'm little bit less confident over it. I try to get rid of it by talking to myself in English. When we have to do presentations I always try to present them without looking at the slides and sometimes me and my roommates plan to speak in English in our hostel room.

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Listening also bit difficult to me when I have to listen speedy speeches with new words and when it about the listening native peoples, I can understand it pretty well. Nowadays I am training my ears to improve my skill by listening to English songs and by watching films and TV series without subtitles.

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I think I'm little bit good at writing but sometimes I lost in grammar rules. And sometimes I really feel bad because I can't express all my feelings in English as I do it with my native language. I must say that steemit give me a opportunity to improve my writing skill and all thanks goes to @sindi for introducing this platform to me.

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Finally I'm really happy because there is at least one skill for me to be good. If I asked to write about the easiest one I definitely write about the reading skill.

I invite @hash96, @patz99, @kalz11 and @raji-s to participate this contest. Thank you @ftz for this amazing contest.