Practice English Conversation (Family life - Illiteracy) Improve English Speaking Skills

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good morning sir can you help me pleaseĀ  it's the first time I come to this
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restaurant good morning sir welcome to Johnny'sĀ  Cafe here is the menu what would you like to
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order um well can you tell meĀ  what's on the menu please I can't
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oh can you hurry up please I have been waiting forĀ Ā 
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10 minutes hurry up I'm sorry sir IĀ  know you have been waiting but I I
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can't don't be sorry just tell the boy whatĀ  you would like to order that's all yes sirĀ Ā 
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I'm sorry can you please tell me what's on the
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menu of course sir we have cheeseĀ  sandwich American coffee fruit
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juice seriously are you going toĀ  tell him all the menu or what are you
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kidding why don't you take that menu and andĀ  read it while other people order some food
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damn calm down sir I willĀ  suggest that to the gentlemen
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listen excuse me sir if you want you canĀ  take the menu and have a seat in someĀ Ā 
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minutes I will go to your table and takeĀ  your order after you have read the entire
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menu yes I would like to do that but I can't I'mĀ  sorry but I can't read I've never learned how toĀ Ā 
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read I am sorry that's why I was asking youĀ  to read it for me what you're kidding rightĀ Ā 
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how is it possible I mean how is it possibleĀ  that you don't know how to read we are in theĀ Ā 
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middle of the 21st century I can't believeĀ  you can't read this is too much I'm wastingĀ Ā 
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time here relax her you shouldn'tĀ  talk to an elderly person like thatĀ Ā 
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that it's not correct not all of us have had theĀ  same opportunities in life we don't know what hisĀ Ā 
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story is there are many people who couldn'tĀ  go to school in the past due to different
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reasons that's nonsense evenĀ  the poorest learn to readĀ Ā 
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when they are children and are you going toĀ  tell me that this old man never learned to readĀ Ā 
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in his entire life I don't think it's a lack ofĀ  opportunities the thing is that he never wantedĀ Ā 
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to learn to read because it's not difficult IĀ  mean it is not the big deal it's just read come
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on sometimes what is simple for someĀ  people is difficult for others it'sĀ Ā 
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reality I'm sorry I don't want to causeĀ  any problem I'd better go to another
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restaurant finally yeah go toĀ  another restaurant we're busy here
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no sir that's okay I can readĀ  the menu for you don't worry weĀ Ā 
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have seriously it will take a yearĀ  please just give him a sandwich and
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coffee seriously I don't want to causeĀ  any problem I'm really sorry I can't readĀ Ā 
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but when I was a child I couldn't go toĀ  school because I had to work to buy foodĀ Ā 
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for my siblings my parents died in a car accidentĀ  when I was only 5 years old I was about to startĀ Ā 
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the school but I couldn't after they died inĀ  a car accident we went through difficult times
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I had two younger brothers and one sister and IĀ  was the oldest so I had to work when my parentsĀ Ā 
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died my aunt took us into her house but sheĀ  wasn't very good to us he always told us thatĀ Ā 
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if we wanted to eat we had to work becauseĀ  nothing is free in this world so we had toĀ Ā 
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do do many things my siblings help in the houseĀ  and I had to work I used to sell different thingsĀ Ā 
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in the street I woke up very early and workedĀ  all day my aunt told me I couldn't go to schoolĀ Ā 
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unless we had enough money to buy everythingĀ  in the house I assumed that I couldn't stopĀ Ā 
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but I wasn't going to let my little brothersĀ  to stop going to school so I worked hard inĀ Ā 
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order to help them go to school and thatĀ  was until I was a teenager I continuedĀ Ā 
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working so that my brothers and sisterĀ  finish school but I also wanted to studyĀ Ā 
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so my plan was to save a lot of money so IĀ  could study even though I was no longer a
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child that's why I worked hard for yearsĀ  to save that money and just when I hadĀ Ā 
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saved enough I realized that my brothersĀ  also needed to go to university so I hadĀ Ā 
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to help them after graduating they wanted toĀ  help me study but I was already an adult itĀ Ā 
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wasn't so easy and I had already gotten used toĀ  working it was very difficult for me to learn to
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read no matter how hard I tried IĀ  couldn't learn or maybe I had tooĀ Ā 
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many things in my head maybe the man hereĀ  is right and I didn't try hard enough MayĀ Ā 
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maybe I could do more my life has not beenĀ  easy but I always think about what I couldĀ Ā 
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have done more in my life I'm reallyĀ  sorry I W bother you anymore I I will
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live sir you don't need to tell us the reasonsĀ  my grandmother doesn't know how to read either
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she's 80 years old and she couldn't go toĀ  school either because she went through difficult
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times so I will read the menu forĀ  you we have chicken and cheeseĀ Ā 
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sandwich American coffee we also haveĀ  orange juice lemonade meat sandwichĀ Ā 
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hot chocolate chocolate cake cake papayaĀ  use apple pie lemon pie cupcakes we alsoĀ Ā 
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have Burgers cheeseburger seriously areĀ  you going to read all the menu I can't
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wait sir if you can't waitĀ  there's another restaurantĀ Ā 
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near here right on the corner have a good day
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I'm really sorry I didn't want to causeĀ  any problem I'm sorry sir it's my faultĀ Ā 
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it's not your fault everything you haveĀ  to go through in your life was not your
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decision and there will always be stupidĀ  people like the man who just left I know that
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now I will read the menu for you okay we haveĀ  chicken sandwich lemonade I hope you liked thisĀ Ā 
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