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Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

Thanhha Lai

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

Tags: childrensbooks, classic, hope, hope and despair, insideoutandbackagain, learning, life, vietnam war, vietnamese

I'm trying to tell MiSSSisss WaSShington about our ceremony for Father.But it takes time tomatch every noun and verb,sort all the tenses,remember all the articles,set the tone for every s.MiSSSisss Wa...

Thanhha Lai

I'm trying to tell MiSSSisss WaSShington about our ceremony for Father.But it takes time tomatch every noun and verb,sort all the tenses,remember all the articles,set the tone for every s.MiSSSisss Wa...

Tags: encouragement, frustrations, learning english, new language

About Author
Thanhha Lai (Vietnamese: Lai T. Thanh Hà; born January 1, 1965) is a Vietnamese-American writer of children's literature. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
and a Newbery Honor for her debut novel, Inside Out & Back Again, which was published by HarperCollins.

I tell you of loss, my child, so you will listen, slowly, and know that in life every emotion is fated to rear itself within your being. Don't judge it proper or ugly. It's simply there and yours. Whe...

Thanhha Lai

I tell you of loss, my child, so you will listen, slowly, and know that in life every emotion is fated to rear itself within your being. Don't judge it proper or ugly. It's simply there and yours. Whe...

Tags: emotions, impermanence, loss

No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."-Inside Out and Back Again

Thanhha Lai

No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."-Inside Out and Back Again

Tags: young adult fiction