I have had many difficulties since I started to learn English. Since I come from the south of China, I can not distinguish nasal sounds from non-nasals and they sound exactly the same in my dialect.

　　Thus, I had a hard time telling “night” from “light” at the very beginning. My poor memory also added to the difficulties when I decided to enlarge my vocabulary. English words were so elusive that I could only remember them for a while.

　　I have spared no efforts to overcome the difficulties and finally succeeded. In order to tell the slight difference between nasal sounds and non-nasals, I forced myself to speak mandarin everyday.

　　Whenever I started to speak English, I reminded myself the difference between “night” and “light”.

　　At first I felt it rather unnatural, but as I went on I was gradually accustomed to speaking in this way.

　　As for my wretched memory, I gave up mechanical memorization and tried many other new ways.

　　At last I found a most efficient way for me: memorizing English words by their stems and affixes. This is how I have overcome some difficulties in learning English.

　　我開始學英語時有很多困難。因為我來自中國南部，我分不清前鼻音和后鼻音而且在我們的方言中發音完全一樣。

　　因此，一開始我很難分辨“夜”與“光”。我的記憶力也不好也是一個問題當我決定擴大自己的詞匯量時。英語單詞是如此難以捉摸的，我只能夠記得他們一段時間。

　　我努力克服困難，最后終于成功了。為了分清楚前鼻音和后鼻音之間的細微差別，我強迫自己每天講普通話。

　　每當我開始說英語時，我提醒自己區分“夜”和“光”的讀音。

　　起初我覺得很不自然，但當我繼續時我逐漸習慣于這樣說。

　　至于我的不太好的記憶力，我放棄了機械記憶和嘗試了許多新的方法。

　　最后我發現了對我來說一個最有效的方法：記憶英語單詞的詞干和詞綴。這是我如何克服英語學習中的一些困難的方法。