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Before I came to the US, I studied English on my own to be able to program/do computery-stuff because people on the internets always told me to RTFM. On my firs
by jimmies 9y ago
Before I came to the US, I studied English on my own to be able to program/do computery-stuff because people on the internets always told me to RTFM. On my first TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) test for college, I got 29/30 for my reading comprehension and a similarly high score for writing but got 15/30 for speaking and a pretty bad score (not as bad as speaking - don't remember exactly) for listening.
Reading and writing were much easier than listening and speaking to me.
- DougWebb 9y agoI had the same experience learning French in school as a child. I did really well at reading and writing, but could never understand what the teacher was saying. A couple of years later, in a different school, my classmates were all Hatians that were taking the class for easy credit. I had even more trouble understanding their creole french, and wound up losing all of my comprehension.