My english is horrible !!!

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Hello all,

Some of the friends in all nurses are commenting that I need to improve my communication skills in English to do better in nursing school. I am a male nursing student from another part of the world (South Asia). I have a passion for nursing. But at the moment, I need some study skills, good English language ability to get through nursing program.

It would be wonderful if you could give me some suggestions to do better in nursing school. How to improve my English communication skills (oral and written) and study skills that I need to have for nursing school to be successful.

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Your written English is better than some of the Hillbillies I work with!! You'll get better as you go through nursing with your clinicals and paper work. I've had friends make it with broken English and come of school very improved. Their languages were Spanish and Russian... My russian friend spoke no English, learned the language watching soap operas, and went on to nursing school....Her English is great... Yours will be too I'm willing to bet.

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Specializes in pediatric critical care.

Hey now, some of us hillbillies have very good english skills! Why, I very rarely say "y'all" and "y'un" these days! :roll

Your written English is better than some of the Hillbillies I work with!! You'll get better as you go through nursing with your clinicals and paper work. I've had friends make it with broken English and come of school very improved. Their languages were Spanish and Russian... My russian friend spoke no English, learned the language watching soap operas, and went on to nursing school....Her English is great... Yours will be too I'm willing to bet.
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I don't know what all I can say as far as help learning English but hillbilly is a necessary second language. I think y'all is nuts if you'ens think it aint.

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Your English seems great! Good luck! :)

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Specializes in Neuro/ Tele;home health; Neuro ICU.

hello, earthlovers123

i am also not american. i came to usa 10 years ago. i was straggled with my english at first even if i had learned it in h.s. i was scared to speak because i thought that others will laught at me because of my accent, wordspelling, all others. i started to watch tv or even just listen to how they are talking, i listen to radio, i read lots of newspapers and books, and go to school for nursing assistant after being here about a year. and first my work was in nursing facility where i have no one to speak my language so it was big step for me to break myself and start talking, talking, talking.

i also recommend if you could talk to someone who speak english or even your friends but just using english for about 30 minutes to an hour and i can sure you will feel deference after while. besides, remember that some instructors are just pitty about english because they think that we as foreign students are not capable to do it, to go throught school, or work. i was also in that situation not long ago, and i just ignore what they say because i know that i am capable and nothing is there to stop me. my patients understand me and if that is the case i try to use words that are not too complicated. going throught nursing school is rough time and lots of sacrifies but if you know, just like i do, that you want it do it and be happy.

good luck, i hope this helps, :)

by the way my husband is filipino, i am polish. and your ehglish is very good. keep up there!!!

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How to improve? By *using* english all the time. When in college I had a roommate for a year, she was a young korean girl, very nice girl. She had come here to attend college, but most of the time that she was not at class, she was hanging out with her korean girlfriends, and they spoke korean all the time. This did NOT help her learn english.

If you really want to learn english, SPEAK it, read it, watch television in english, and do take a class. You'd learn just what mistakes you are making, and how to change that pattern. If you speak a language other than english at home or with friends you will never improve.

Yes, you speak well enough to get by, but not well enough to impress a professor. You must put forth the effort, though.

Good luck.

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Hey now, some of us hillbillies have very good english skills! Why, I very rarely say "y'all" and "y'un" these days! :roll

Y'all is a perfect solution to the lack of a plural form of you in the English language. It's better than the irritating west coast version, which is 'you guys'...:rolleyes: If I hear one more perky, bleached blond waitress say that, I think I'll puke...:angryfire

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by the way my husband is filipino, i am polish. and your ehglish is very good. keep up there!!!

Dzien dobry pani! Rozumiem troche po Polsku. :)

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Specializes in Neuro/ Tele;home health; Neuro ICU.
Dzien dobry pani! Rozumiem troche po Polsku. :)

hello, dzien dobry.

powodzenia.

it is always nice to hear someone polish speaking. not too many nurses i met my nationality.

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

Some times what needs to be worked on is accent. You can take some ESL (English as a Second Language) or possibly work w/a Speech Therapist. This will help you articulate better in English.

It looks like you have a good working knowledge of written English, it's the speaking part that needs help.

Good Luck in your endeavors!

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Specializes in Hemodialysis, Home Health.

If you speak a language other than english at home or with friends you will never improve.

Not true. :p

Not true at all.

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