English is a language I have always been familiar with, probably due to the fact that my parents went to English medium schools and speak English better than their native Chinese tongues and have always spoken English to me. This is however is not standard English and the English of some people of my parents' generation have a lot of mistakes, as they found English grammar difficult. I also make grammatical mistakes personally.
Personally, English can be said to be my native language, and although I do speak some poor Mandarin to some members of my extended family, I am unable to understand chinese dialects which are truly different languages, which I definitely feel is a loss.
Learning English became a chore to me in secondary school, and I still find this to be true when I attend this module, even though my English is probably not as good as that of others in the class, primarily because I am not fond of writing essays, doing critiques, using rubrics etc, am poor at these and also find them to be meaningless and boring to me. However, I know that it will be beneficial to learn new things and do my best and will therefore try to do so in this course, and in the compulsory English module for science students in the future.
