Jenny, a 20-year-old woman from South Korea, speaks of her difficulties with learning English:
I didn’t even have friends. When I first came here English was my biggest problem. I did not understand a single word they said. And the kids made fun of me because I didn’t know English, I feel like they were talking about me but I didn’t get it. […] My mom tried so many things on me. She tried phonics, she tried vocab words, she tried movies, she tried TV shows, making me read newspapers, none of that worked. […] I was a total failure though. I started understanding English from school. I started talking to the teacher one-on-one. That kind of worked.
