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

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good morning sir can you help me please  it's the first time I come to this
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restaurant good morning sir welcome to Johnny's  Cafe here is the menu what would you like to
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order um well can you tell me  what's on the menu please I can't
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oh can you hurry up please I have been waiting for  
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10 minutes hurry up I'm sorry sir I  know you have been waiting but I I
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can't don't be sorry just tell the boy what  you would like to order that's all yes sir  
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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 cheese  sandwich American coffee fruit
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juice seriously are you going to  tell him all the menu or what are you
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kidding why don't you take that menu and and  read it while other people order some food
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damn calm down sir I will  suggest that to the gentlemen
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listen excuse me sir if you want you can  take the menu and have a seat in some  
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minutes I will go to your table and take  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'm  sorry but I can't read I've never learned how to  
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read I am sorry that's why I was asking you  to read it for me what you're kidding right  
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how is it possible I mean how is it possible  that you don't know how to read we are in the  
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middle of the 21st century I can't believe  you can't read this is too much I'm wasting  
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time here relax her you shouldn't  talk to an elderly person like that  
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that it's not correct not all of us have had the  same opportunities in life we don't know what his  
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story is there are many people who couldn't  go to school in the past due to different
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reasons that's nonsense even  the poorest learn to read  
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when they are children and are you going to  tell me that this old man never learned to read  
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in his entire life I don't think it's a lack of  opportunities the thing is that he never wanted  
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to learn to read because it's not difficult I  mean it is not the big deal it's just read come
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on sometimes what is simple for some  people is difficult for others it's  
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reality I'm sorry I don't want to cause  any problem I'd better go to another
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restaurant finally yeah go to  another restaurant we're busy here
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no sir that's okay I can read  the menu for you don't worry we  
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have seriously it will take a year  please just give him a sandwich and
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coffee seriously I don't want to cause  any problem I'm really sorry I can't read  
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but when I was a child I couldn't go to  school because I had to work to buy food  
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for my siblings my parents died in a car accident  when I was only 5 years old I was about to start  
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the school but I couldn't after they died in  a car accident we went through difficult times
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I had two younger brothers and one sister and I  was the oldest so I had to work when my parents  
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died my aunt took us into her house but she  wasn't very good to us he always told us that  
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if we wanted to eat we had to work because  nothing is free in this world so we had to  
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do do many things my siblings help in the house  and I had to work I used to sell different things  
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in the street I woke up very early and worked  all day my aunt told me I couldn't go to school  
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unless we had enough money to buy everything  in the house I assumed that I couldn't stop  
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but I wasn't going to let my little brothers  to stop going to school so I worked hard in  
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order to help them go to school and that  was until I was a teenager I continued  
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working so that my brothers and sister  finish school but I also wanted to study  
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so my plan was to save a lot of money so I  could study even though I was no longer a
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child that's why I worked hard for years  to save that money and just when I had  
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saved enough I realized that my brothers  also needed to go to university so I had  
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to help them after graduating they wanted to  help me study but I was already an adult it  
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wasn't so easy and I had already gotten used to  working it was very difficult for me to learn to
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read no matter how hard I tried I  couldn't learn or maybe I had too  
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many things in my head maybe the man here  is right and I didn't try hard enough May  
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maybe I could do more my life has not been  easy but I always think about what I could  
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have done more in my life I'm really  sorry I W bother you anymore I I will
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live sir you don't need to tell us the reasons  my grandmother doesn't know how to read either
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she's 80 years old and she couldn't go to  school either because she went through difficult
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times so I will read the menu for  you we have chicken and cheese  
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sandwich American coffee we also have  orange juice lemonade meat sandwich  
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hot chocolate chocolate cake cake papaya  use apple pie lemon pie cupcakes we also  
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have Burgers cheeseburger seriously are  you going to read all the menu I can't
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wait sir if you can't wait  there's another restaurant  
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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 cause  any problem I'm sorry sir it's my fault  
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it's not your fault everything you have  to go through in your life was not your
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decision and there will always be stupid  people like the man who just left I know that
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now I will read the menu for you okay we have  chicken sandwich lemonade I hope you liked this  
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