{"id":20818,"date":"2022-11-15T19:44:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T00:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=20818"},"modified":"2022-11-16T20:29:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T01:29:19","slug":"i-feel-so-embarrassed-when-im-bubbling-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/11\/15\/i-feel-so-embarrassed-when-im-bubbling-words\/","title":{"rendered":"I feel so embarrassed when I&#8217;m bubbling words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AW111522-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AW111522-6.jpg\" alt=\"I feel so embarrassed when I'm bubbling words because I'm nervous. Since English is my second language. I feel so bad when I make a fool of myself when speaking with natives.\" class=\"wp-image-20817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AW111522-6.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AW111522-6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AW111522-6-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>I feel so embarrassed when I&#8217;m bubbling words because I&#8217;m nervous. Since English is my second language. I feel so bad when I make a fool of myself when speaking with natives. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep in mind that a) English is remarkably difficult, owing to irregular spellings, thousands of words derived from other languages, and speech full of contractions &amp; idioms that don&#8217;t necessarily appear in standard written English, and b) those native speakers probably don&#8217;t have native fluency in another language. Learning a language is all about forging ahead through errors. Please keep making errors! It&#8217;s how you&#8217;ll improve. (BTW&#8230; I think you might have meant &#8220;bungling,&#8221; not &#8220;bubbling,&#8221; but I really like the sound of bubbling!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep in mind that a) English is remarkably difficult, owing to irregular spellings, thousands of words derived from other languages, and speech full of contractions &amp; idioms that don&#8217;t necessarily appear in standard written English, and b) those native speakers probably don&#8217;t have native fluency in another language. Learning a language is all about forging &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/11\/15\/i-feel-so-embarrassed-when-im-bubbling-words\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I feel so embarrassed when I&#8217;m bubbling words&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20835,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20818\/revisions\/20835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}