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When I was a kid, I believed everything I was told, everything I watched on the television news, and everything I heard on the radio broadcasting. I believed smart kids studied hard math and science. I believed smart kids spent a lot of time watching television every day. I believed smart kids don't ask so many questions in a family gathering.

When I was eager to learn more, more was either soccer or math. I returned home with little information in my head even though I spent the entire day at school. This filled my imagination with nothing except many kinds of calculus and the growing desire for playing soccer. So I studied math, and I excelled at it. I thought excelling in math would sharpen my mind and widen my imagination, but my imaginative senses were either numb or completely deadened by that. I played soccer, and I was somehow perfect at it. I was sharp at dribbling the ball past a swarm of defenders, which made me score goals several times. Consequently, as a team, we won so many tournaments and were so happy. However, the winning tournaments didn't widen my imagination, either.

One Monday morning, I was desperately in need of writing a letter, but when I held a pen between my fingers and looked at a white sheet of paper that lay on the table in front of my eyes, I was unable to write anything. My hand horribly froze, and my head was spinning like the soccer ball. In addition, inside my head were only numbers, mathematical equations, and some other complex math material.

The truth was that to write the letter, I basically needed to be able to create words, sentences, and paragraphs. But I wasn't able to do any of that. Since that day, I resolved to continuously keep reading books and English stories, and most importantly, I decided firmly to permanently stay away from playing soccer, watching television, and spending tremendous amounts of time on the study of mathematics.

Although every day I woke up late and felt exhausted due to reading at night, my head was interestingly filled with new English words and different sentence structures. To me, it was fascinating how my head was absorbing the lines of books I was reading and how my brain was trying to picture the details and the descriptive paragraphs the novelist had put in there.

Forokoo.com is one of the rewards of my resolution. It has several English articles and stories, which arguably I think are worth reading. In general, in my opinion, the most effective way to improve English skills is through reading and believing in yourself.

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Louizia's Biggest Problem

A dialogue between a city worker and a female pedestrian in Louizia:

Woman: Excuse me, sir, I think you are blocking my way.

Worker: I'm sorry, ma'am. But don't you see in the early morning I'm cleaning up the sidewalk for you to use?

Woman: That is nice of you, and we thank you for doing such work, but every Monday of each week

Cinema Najah

For so many years, Cinema Najah was one of the perfect places to go to in a city of Morocco named Mohammedia. Many people found nothing as exciting as an afternoon of going to the movie theater alone or with friends, especially on a Thursday when the new big movie posters were glued on Cinema Najah's walls.

Cinema Najah had two kinds of tickets, th

From Terceira Island to the City of Mohammedia

Strangely, the small Terceira airport appeared as dark as midnight as the airplane from Toronto touched down on the tarmac. It was unusually silent across the entire place. As we got off the aircraft, the absolute silence of the place gave the impression that the weather was unusual, even though it was warm, windy, and humid. We landed around 11:20 p.m., bu

The Phone

It was a rainy Friday in the afternoon; Karima felt a little bit queasy. She sat on the kitchen chair and leaned forward, her elbows on her thighs and her chin cupped in her hands. Her husband, Karim, filled a cup of cold water from the sink and gave it to her with a painkiller. There was a tremor in the hands, and the cup clicked against her teeth. Suddenl

Toubkal Mountain

In the wee hours, a strong wind was gusting from the north. No matter how we tried to keep our body temperature warm, we were shivering like leaves prior to a storm. Some of our body parts were numb. Nadya, who was the only girl in the group, bent down to her knees, making several deep sighs as if she was telling us she was done. She was finished. We could

Never Trust Anyone

When I decided to rent an apartment for the first time in Canada, I did not think somebody would possibly enter my apartment when I was not there. I spoke to a Frenchwoman who came driving her truck to show me the apartment. Eventually, after she asked me many questions, we agreed to sign the lease. I wanted to change the apartment keys, but she told me we

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