When I first learned to write in English, I ran into many

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difficulties. The main problem was in that I always thought

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in Chinese and tried to translate anything into English.

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My teacher advised me to keep my diary. I followed her

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advice and should put down 100 words or so each day.

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Soon I began to enjoy talk to myself on paper as I was

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learning to express me in simple English. One day I wrote

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a little story and showed to my teacher. She liked it

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every much and reads it to the class. All said the story was

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a good one. Their word were a great encouragement to me.

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