I didn’t grow up in an English-speaking family, though my Mom is fluent but I really didn’t gain the confidence of speaking in English.I’m a Filipino by blood living in Canada for a couple of years now. I studied in a school for 16 years where English is the primary medium of instruction so comprehension and reading is not that much of a problem but when it comes to writing and specially speaking that is where the struggle begins. I am normally a chatty person, (when speaking