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This blog talks about my English and How's it back then in 8th standard untill I read HALF GIRLFRIEND by Chetan Bhagat, my 1st Novel. Yupp, so back in my pre - English days 😅😅😅, when I wasn't able to Talk in English; apart from.... My name is Vishal...My father's/ mother's name is this and that and Ma'am wanna go drink water and use Restroom and all.
I actually didn't know nothing much in English. Though I starting to get jest about English in my school, Wisdom Academy because there's an activity where you had to pick a Topic from NIE newspaper and express your views on that particular Topic in morning Assembly.
( Yes, and that too, in front of all students but this again helped me a lot to get rid of my Stage fear.). I also participated in few of Dramas, Skit, Role - Plays but again English was remained , an Average thing to me.
But when I enrolled myself in 9th standard in Royal Mount Academy ( Gomti Nagar ), I got PCs to my place, fortunately ( Thanks to Dad ) and from here on, I started getting some stuffs loaded to my PCs Hard drive. Thankfully, one of them, was a Novel, named, HALF GIRLFRIEND, the name sound unusual back then to me but interesting one so That One PDF remained there untill I finally decided to Read it One Day. I kept it long enough, not only because the name's interesting but also wanna read it. The Day came when I started reading it, I found myself surrounded with some new and unfamiliar words which I didn't know the meaning of. So preferred to use another of my Papa's present ... OXFORD DICTIONARY which really deserved a Thanks as it Helped me sail through smoothly till the last page.
Okie, I'm gonna totally True to you guys, and it's not like, I get the Novel Comepletely. There were some Ups and Downs, where I didn't have a clue about what's happening in the Novel in that very instance. But again, " Be Patient till the LAST and you got some fruit for yourself "
So there were times, I had to read again and again the something just to get what the Author was trying to say.So yeah !!! , at the End, it's all worth it.
I believed it, It not only just reading Novels but you can Try anything, like writing Journals ( Day to day Activity ), speak to oneself in English, Try reading Articles available on WEB ( Internet ) and you can also prefer Listening English news , Audio files etc.,
So like this, I have finished quite a few Novels by different authors. Also I read Articles and Try to Watch Animes and Vedios in English. As I conclude I can say, I have improved quite a lot and gained Confidence in the process.
The Names of the Novels that I had READ in the past are ...
By CHETAN BHAGAT
- Half Girlfriend
- 2 States
- 3 Mistakes of my Life
- 5 Point Someone
- One Night @Call Centre
- Revolution 2020
- One Indian Girl
- The Girl in Room no. 105
- One Arranged Murder
- 400 Days ( the latest and; 8 and 9 are its prequel )