Straight up facts right there

I’ll never forget when I worked in fast food and my coworker from Guatemala asked me, “Can you settle a bet between Jorge and I? You speak English like a second language, what’s your first language?”

English is my first language.

Jorge won that bet.

I have found that reading challenging texts out loud has helped my writing, reading, listening, and speaking.

People mock me for it. But it develops an active vocabulary faster than anything that I have stumbled upon for myself.