[Hakan O] Writing Practice Test 550683

Bar chart shows people immigrated from UK to Australia, Spain, New Zealand, Usa and France in thousands through the time period 2004 to 2007.

In 2004 Australia was the most prefered option with around 42 thousand people immigrating from the UK followed by Spain with around 34 thousand people. This two options were still the most popular choices in 2005 with the addition of France to the options with 34 thousand people. Through this time period Australia beeing the most prefered option USA is the least prefered option. In comparison Australia almost doubled the amount of people choose to immigrate USA through 2004-2007 with the exception of 2006 which the difference is more than doubled. While other countries showed differentiating immigration counts New Zealand shows a steadily declining trend over this time period.

In general through this time period total number of people chose to immigrate to the countries shown on the chart shows a rising trend through 2004 to 2005 with the highest amount of nearly 254 thousand people. However this number greatly reduced in 2007.

I believe you can't study a language truly without speaking with the natives and have an environment pushes you to speak and learn more about that language but you can still learn a language to some extend. So I agree with the claim that studying the English in an English-speaking country is not the only option to learn English.

Through my own experiences which involves almost 15 years of English education, I still find it hard to think in English and speak fluently. I believe not being able to speak often is the biggest reason for this matter. All these years I met a lot of international students with less theoritical English education than me speaking more fluently and can engage in conversations more naturally. I discussed this situtation with some of them which made me believe that this naturality and fluency comes from their past experiences in different countries where they lived and have to speak English constantly to communicate. Since they didn't have another option for the situtations they were in it pushed them to speak more, practice more and in the end gain the naturality and fluency in the way of their speaking of the language. But still all these experiences not in my belt, I was able to speak and communicate with them fairly easily.

In the end learning English without living or studying in an English-speaking country is definitely possible. But there will always be a gap in naturality, cohesion and fluency unless you push your self to speak English and learn from your mistakes.