A violin major overcame her fear while travelling alone to the US during junior secondary. She had to use English to survive. She prefers non-fiction books like My Happiness Project and Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

This student developed a system to remember the spelling of a word through pronunciation. She watched variety shows to increase her vocabulary and sense of the language.

A tutor used a unique teaching approach to change this student’s views on pronunciation of English. She was inspired by the content in The Hunger Games. She uses English and Cantonese in her General Studies degree.

Attending an English pronunciation course made this Chemistry major realise he could do a lot to learn English. He learns a lot of new things by reading TIME.

Taking a course about the International Phonetic Alphabet was enjoyed by this English major. He continued studying the subject by reading books on phonetics and phonology.

A phonics class trained this Chinese Medicine major to remember vocabulary in an organised way. The Twilight movies motivated her to read the original books which were more interesting.

A teacher who pronounced a word incorrectly made this Journalism major realise the importance of learning phonetic symbols. Tales from Shakespeare was a required text in secondary school. He felt that the lines in Romeo and Juliet were strange.

Being forced to memorise and learn, this English major hated the language. A phonetics and pronunciation course in Form Four was the only course she enjoyed. Working as a flight attendant affected her use of English.

Learning phonetic symbols has helped this student to enunciate. He prefers to watch films and read in Chinese because he is a slow reader and looking up words in a dictionary is time-consuming but he is proud to have completed a long book in secondary school.

Learning phonetic symbols improved this Engineering major’s spoken English. He seldom reads books except for textbooks related to his major.

Taking phonics classes in a language centre helped this Nursing major pronounce words quickly. Her English teacher read aloud The Witches in a pleasant way during a Language Arts lesson.

Extra-curricular English classes taught the alphabet, phonics, and grammar to this Mathematics major. At primary school, she read novels recommended by her teachers.

Learning the International Phonetic Alphabet improved this Pharmacy major’s spoken English. He prefers to read the Bible in English instead of the Chinese version.

A teacher in secondary school emphasised phonetics to this Biomedical Engineering major. Reading classes in school exposed him to different genres of books including one about Guinness World Records.

A teacher in secondary school used phonics to help this Social Science major with her spelling. In the absence of Chinese language recipes, she looks for English ones on the Internet.

Extra-curricular tutorials in secondary school taught this Architecture major phonetics. The readings for her major are difficult because they relate to philosophy. She spends more time to digest the materials and uses the dictionary to overcome the challenge.