<Nate the Great>, Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

 

 

This is actually a bit of an embarrassing story. How many years have I studied English?

And yet my English is pitiful. I don't want to be the kind of parent who forces my kids to study. That doesn't mean I don't want them to do well in school, but I still want them to grow up healthy.

 

However, if I have one wish for my children's education, it's that they don't have to suffer from the English language like I did. So while I tell them that their health is my priority, I still want them to study English. In addition to studying English, I want them to read a lot of books. So I try to read a lot of Korean books to them, and when they get older, I try to read a lot of English books to them. In order to do that, I have to read English books well first.

 

This book was read to my eldest child. When my son started to read by himself, he started to choose his own books. I also opened this book to learn English, but I found that my English was terrible. I had to look up some words in the dictionary, and there were times when I didn't understand a sentence even though I knew all the words.

 

Still, I enjoyed reading the book. I thought it was pretty funny at the end. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be funny or if it's supposed to make English fun. I'm going to read the rest of the series and the other books my son is reading. I'm looking forward to it.