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America Vs To English Class Analysis

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When I was a little girl, I disliked writing my Chinese name, 馮慧櫻 (fung4 wai6 ying1). It takes 48 strokes to write my name, but it takes my friend 22 strokes to write hers; so, my hands are always sore. Every time I pressed my Hello Kitty pencil hard against the paper to write this torture, it felt like I had completed, stamped, and published a whole Chinese narrative about me. When I immigrated from Hong Kong to San Francisco, my four-year-old self was relieved. I didn’t have to write in Chinese anymore! However, I quickly learned that I would have to learn a new language, English...and not a single person in my family spoke English. But, in America, I discovered a new way of writing that I really enjoy. I love to write in code.
Compared to English, Chinese was much harder- each character has a different meaning, but each character may sound similar to many others. Even though many may believe that English seems much easier than Chinese, looking back now, I believe that my attitude towards English was too arrogant.
When I was four years old, my older sisters, Nadia and Zoe, used to pretend to be teachers and taught me the alphabet. When I went into pre-school, I had to learn the alphabet again. When I reached kindergarten, I had to learn it for the third time. So for three years of …show more content…

The final assignment for the class brought an incredible opportunity for me to find my style in programming: we were allowed to create anything we wanted, and I wrote my first computer game, Catcher. In the game, the player catches falling objects from the sky and accumulates points to win. It was a challenging project, since I had no prior experience coding games. I had not even seen game code before, but I enjoyed it so much. The Catcher project allowed me to truly express myself through the lines of code. Through writing computer programs, I had found my

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