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I have a huge problem that had been affecting me for the past 3 years, the problem is that basically i forgot how to talk. I am an Egyptian girl, my first language is arabic and my second language is english. I can speak English fluently as i started learning it from kindergarten.

It all started when my english teacher at school made me read out loud when I didn’t want to, and she kept correcting me several times when I pronounced words wrong, eventually i lost confidence in myself and I couldn’t speak.I lost confidence in speaking the English language, that’s why I sometimes communicate with people based on the language they expect me to use, or whether they will judge my way of speaking. Lots of my friends, even my brother and cousins make fun of the way i speak, and when someone does that, i feel that all of my effort that i did this year to speak properly is gone.

Before this problem i used to speak with very high confidence in my class and to my teachers, i always raised my hand in class and i had no problem with speaking to anyone. That is why I’m always afraid to go to school now and i’d rather sit at home and not communicate with anyone.

This year, i improved, sometimes i pronounce words automatically, without thinking in my head several times of how to pronounce the word. However the problem is not completely solved, as I sometimes struggle. I really wish i could get rid of this problem so that i could go back to living my life. All these words that i wrote I cannot pronounce them out loud.