My most memorable learning
experience is not very pleasant one. It happened in my first year in senior
high. It was in English class and our English teacher Justiina was asking how
to bend some irregular verbs. My verb was to begin. I knew how it was bent:
begin, began begun but I didn’t pronounce it correctly. I said it more like it
is written. Justiina said that the pronunciation was incorrect and asked a
student next to me pronounce it right and after that the whole class pronounced
it together. Then it was my turn again to pronounce it. I couldn’t say it
correctly and the student next to me and the whole class after that pronounced
it again. It was my turn again and I still couldn’t say it correctly. The same
pattern was repeated maybe five times before the right pronunciation came out
of my mouth. That was humiliating and distressing but it worked. I still
remember it clearly after more than ten years and I can also pronounce that
verb quite well.
