05-10-2015, 12:05 PM
(05-10-2015, 10:22 AM)Salo2015 Wrote: Thanks guys for share your experience.
I read about LTU and I think it will be good choice.I am hesitated because I don't know l how I can reconcile between the academic development and treatment of emotional problems in an acceptable time, especially each sub take a period of 6 months.
Thank Clansy for the nice courtesy, my problem in the English language that I can not speak it at all I think because of lack of self-confidence as I forget words and terms quickly.
Salo2015,
I don't know what your situation is, but I would like to suggest start working on your emotional well-being before you start working on your academics, unless you have reasons to get back to academics ASAP (like visa, financial, and etc.)
The reason I suggest this is because of my past experience. My experience was that I was in a situation that left me no time and no room to deal with my emotional well-being before returning to the academics. Therefore, I returned to academics before being able to work out my emotional well-being. Initially, I was able to pull it off well, but things deteriorated rather quickly, forcing me to transfer to another institution.
In the end all turned out well, but if I was able to straight out my emotional problems before returning to the academia, things would have been smoother, much smoother.
The choice is yours, but I would like to recommend working on dealing with your emotional difficulties before returning to the academics, if situation permits.
That being said, I would suggest beginning with EPRHA for several reasons.
1. You said that you have a problem with spoken language due to lack of confidence coming from forgetting words. Since you were able to write English well, I would assume that you have good writing skills in English, but I don't know if Shannon's sub requires you being fluent in speaking and listening in English as well. Thus, you would probably want to test out the effectiveness of the sub.
2. Since you would want to test the effectiveness of sub on you, it would be ideal to start with something free. EPRHA is free, so you don't lose anything financially, if it were not work.
3. EPRHA is the most suited sub for dealing with your issues among the other free subs.
And lastly about your spoken English, don't feel ashamed, or lose confidence because you do not speak the language well. It is difficult to have conversation in a language other your first language. And most of the people I have seen in Canada and US appreciates your efforts in trying to speak in English. (More respect comes if you can speak better, but they still recognize your efforts and pay respects as well.)
And I don't know if you have been made fun of or shamed by someone for your "not having good spoken English," but try to ignore them, and those people are not worthy of you nor their opinions are worthy to be taken. Let them try to have conversation in your language. I would assume that many of them, if not almost all of them would be much worse than your trying to speak in English. So please do not lose your self-confidence because of that.
Given these, I would also suggest trying to talk to native English speakers as often as possible, if you can, while trying to minimize exposure to your own language. That is how I learned English, and it worked out rather well. It can be damn difficult to overcome the anxieties (luckily, I never really had such anxiety for having a bad language), but it is something you will have to deal with, if you were to improve your English.
And also, have fun doing it. I remember that during my first to second study abroad experience, I would speak in English, and suddenly my first language came out. Well, one would assume that the others would recognize it. Some do, but many don't. And I would later have a laugh with what happened, and be amazed that stuff like that can happen. Again, I can understand that how it can be very difficult to have fun in the situation that causes anxiety, but that's the only way I can see how to improve your English drastically and quickly.
Ultimately the decision of trying the sub, and decision of going with learning English vs addressing your emotional well-being are yours to make. I wish you the best luck, and I hope you get out of the difficult journey with relative ease.
