I Chased English Across 4 Countries
Intermediate (B2) · Language Learning · 23 min · Free
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English and I did not start well. I met it in school in Syria, chased it alone at home, sat in classrooms at the British Council in Riyadh, fed it movies, podcasts, radio, news articles, flashcards. Years of effort, in country after country, and the language kept its distance.
Then I landed in America, and everything I believed about learning collapsed fast. Real English was nothing like studied English. In this video I tell the whole road, Syria to Saudi Arabia to the Emirates to the United States, what failed and why, and what immersion did that years of methods never could. It is the story that planted the question this entire channel grew out of: if living inside a language is what finally works, why does the world keep studying from outside it?
My university later wrote an article about my journey in America. The link is below if you want the longer story.
https://www.pcc.edu/news/2016/06/hasan-alhamwi-to-canada/
https://www.pcc.edu/news/2015/01/hasan-alhamwi/
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Slow, clear Levantine Arabic, around B1.
