Week 1

Writing in my language is much easier for me. I was a good writer in my country because I used to write a lot when I was  in elementary school, secondary school, and high school. I also was one of the  five students on top of the writing classes most of the time in my country. However, moving to the United State has changed my writing pretty much due to several reasons. First of all, the way of writing in Vietnamese and English is totally different. In Vietnam,we usually need " the opening" to get to the main points or problems. For example, if someone owed you money and you want it back. Unlike Americans, Vietnamese never ask right away that they need their money back but they would talk about the other things that related to that money such as, how is your work this month? do you remember that you need to do something for me at the end of this week? and so on. Then after a long conversation, they will ask for the money. It is such completed, but  Vietnamese think that is polite. l remember struggling to write first drafts in English was my challenges. Here they tend to write straight to the point and be done with it. My writing was  terrible as you could not imagine. Secondly, lacking vocabulary makes my writing worse. Sometimes it is even harder to write down things that you don't know how to call it. I had the ideas but I did not know how to describe it the right way. I was thinking in Vietnamese and writing in English which made my essay like a chaos. Finally, it is really hard at the first place to determine while writing about the position of the part of speech. In Vietnam, we always put a noun before an adjective but English is opposite. For instance, Vietnamese say book red while American say red book.  I appreciated what I have learned, and I think writing is a fun way to express what you think. The more I write, the more I like American way because it is clear, simple, and shorter than Vietnamese's.