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ANNOUNCER:
It's time for English Makeover from BBC World Service.
In this series, learners of English from around the world tell us their language problems. And
there's advice for them and you, from experienced teacher of English, Karen Adams.
Clip: Karen Adams
Hi, I’m Karen Adams and I’m an English language teacher and teacher trainer. And over the
years, I’ve helped or at least I hope I’ve helped, hundred of learners to improve their English.
The English Makeover learners will be telling me about their problems and well…I’ll see what
I can do to help.
ANNOUNCER:
Today's learner is Hawo Shafat from Somalia. Presenter Vicki Sullivan visited Hawo at work.
Here's a clue to what Hawo does for a living…
Clip: Bus
Bus driving/garage
Vicki: That’s a bus garage in South London, where Hawo works as a bus driver. I
went to meet her there to talk about her English.
Clip: Vicki interviews Hawo about her English language skills
HAWO: My name is Hawo Shafat. I'm from Somalia. I came to England five years ago and
I’m a bus driver.
VICKI: And how long have you been learning English? Did you learn English before you came
to Britain or only when you came here?
HAWO: When I came here. If you study in Somalia most of the subject is writing in English.
They are not using to talk the language actually.
VICKI: So you had experience of writing in English but not really of speaking. So do you
think you have any specific problems with your English? Things which you’d like help with?
HAWO: It’s mostly about speaking the English. Before I didn’t much speak English and now
it’s just that.. I need little bit more to improve speaking, especially the sort of thing like the
word is get me sometimes confuse… For example in my language we don’t have this he or she
and here we got this he, she, it. That still sometimes.. he and she is ok for me, but it you use
for animals and human beings – sometimes I get stuck on it and sometimes if I speak to
someone about animals still like he or she, I have a little bit of problem of it.
VICKI: OK, so you have some problem with using pronouns for example – he, she and it.
Which should be used when, because it’s different in your own language. And when you're
reading and you look up a word to know what it means, do you find it easy to remember
vocabulary or do you find it difficult?
HAWO: Sometimes I find it easy, and sometimes I find it hard. It depends.
VICKI: Do you have any kind of system for remembering vocabulary?
HAWO: Yes, I write it down on a piece of paper or my rough book. That way, I will
remember it. When I finish work I go home and look at the paper and try to flash it back.
Normally I do that every 2 or 3 days, what words I don't understand. I just write them down
and if I look 2 or 3 times it will go in my head straight away.
VICKI: What about your pronunciation? Do people understand you, or do they not understand
you because of your accent or pronunciation?
HAWO: Yeah.. Some people they don’t understand me. Maybe they understand just a little bit.
They just got a little bit of clue…. They just look at me…They don't understand what I'm
talking about… It’s just sometime I’m trying talk quick and I miss some words in the middle.
They don’t understand… My language is faster than the other one. I speak very quickly in my
own language.
Vicki: You’ve just heard Hawo Shafat from Somalia, explaining her worries about
speaking English – choosing the correct pronouns and getting the speed of speech right. So
what does Karen Adams think can be done?
Clip: Vicki talks to Karen Adams about Hawo's language problems
Karen: Well, I think there are 3 things she can do. First of all, she mentions the problem with
personal pronouns, and I don't think this is a very big problem...