Malaysians speak Chinese, Malay and English 
my school was all Chinese though, maths science everything was taught in Chinese
Wow, I'm so evny with your amazing ability to know all 3 different languages
How about we start to discuss how we felt in love with English/ESL and to review the course?
I felt in love with Eng back in yr 6. I remembered vividly that we were taught a bit of Eng in primary school (yr 1-5) but my mind only started to click when I entered yr 6. At first it was just pure joy of memorising vocabulary or basic phrases of a new languge and then the culture itself
I started to listen to its music and movies (of course with Viet subtitle on) and books (translated into Viet). But it wasn't until I came to Aus that I can fully discovered my ability. I started to read books and movies purely in Eng and I was so much enjoyed them (continue till now of course). I was no longer bound by the translator's interpretation but completely relied on my own imagination
Now, on the ESL course, I love it! It was only when I sat down on my first lesson of ESL that I was completely blown away thanks to my yr 10 teacher
She was very patient with us international students who were just a flock of sheeps
Of course, there were many times when she's so frustrated when we spoke to eacher other in 1st lang
The course helped me to expose to new knowledge of Eng that I knew I wouldn't get anywhere in my home country (unless I studied in an international school
)
One of my favourite book in the course was The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho back in yr 11. It was a challenging book not because of the language but the meanings behind it. The book's main theme is to follow our dream and don't be fooled into the trap of "destiny"
I loved the book so much that I found and read more books from Paulo. One of the things I love about Aus is the library system
Back in my home country, there aren't many libraries, so if I want to read a book I need to buy it. It's not abig deal for me but I keep worrying that some books aren't worth to buy because I only read them once!
On the other hand, if there is a good enough library system in vn, I'm sure that there will be many people benefit from the free knowledge that they can gain.
Back to ESL! Of course, because Eng is a humanities subjects so there're infinitely responses to a question but with no right or wrong answer! So I ended up with so many up and down marks with no consistency
This sometimes annoyed me
But my teacher who taught me The Alchemist book told me, "It isn't matter how high or low you achieved, it's the knowledge itself that is important" But I'm still still so obsess with grades nowaday
I understood my teacher but without high grades how can we get into our preferred course and finally our job?
I'm going to stop here cuz I wrote so much already
Sorry if I write off-track sometimes
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