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The first “evidence” of I tried to read a book was a picture showing my older brother read an upside down book for me. My initial memory of the books I read were Liu Yong and Dr. Dai’s encouraged books. Liu Yong taught me how to react in the real world. Dr. Dai taught me never give up. Actually, my father bought these books, but never read them. I’m the only one who read them and I have read for several times since I was in kindergarten. No kidding! They improved my Mandarin reading skill, so I could read more Chinese characters than peers. There’re a lot of yellow jokes that I didn’t get them but understood afterwards. I loved them, although I got tired of this kind of books after reading too many times. I don’t like little stories anymore. The benefit they brought me was making me love Mandarin and books. So far, I still like to understand every correct pronunciation and word. I need to thank them for making me Mandarin little teacher and attend many Mandarin related contests.

Nowadays, I studied in Bachelor of International Business Administration (English Program). I couldn’t help but check all unusual vocabularies, I just didn’t understand the paragraph. I learn to circle vocabularies that I don’t know, finish the paragraph then check dictionary. It works better than before, it takes me a long time to adjust it. My friend who’s in engineering department says the words in my text book are weird. Study business in English makes me learn a lot. If I was in engineering department English program, I would have a totally different reading experience. You are what you read. There’s huge difference between my reading behavior form childhood to collage life, I could read whatever I want which makes me get motivation in reading, but I have to read something I don’t like to get a strength for a job now . That’s my personal story about reading.