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...ir accent mistakes. The listeners, however, often don¡¯t want to send people negative feedback. How to help people correct their pronunciations mistake and mean while, give them confidence to speak, the educators should find a balance between the two. As an international student from China, I have the same problem as that Korean girl. That is my English accent. But we are quite different. She feels stranded between two languages neither of which she feels comfortable speaking or writing. She is scramble between the two worlds. Thanks for my seventeen years life in China; I have a perfect grasp of Chinese language. I had studied English for five years in China. When I was in high school, studying English means repeating my English lessons and memorizing the grammar rule. This method helped me earn such high scores in various English tests that I did not doubt its efficiency. But the first English class in Canada completely frustrated me. Just in that time I realized I did not understand English studying. Language is the product of circumstance. I remember that when I first come to Canada, the pronunciation of Canadian people and the countenance when they were speaking surprised me. Because of the diff...