During my early years in elementary school, I remember how difficult it was to learn two languages at a very young age. I was born in Egypt, and Arabic, being my first language, made learning English grammar very challenging, not to mention pronouncing words. One thing I will always remember is when I would ask the teacher, “Can I use the bathroom?” and they would always jokingly respond, “I don’t know, can you?” That used to irritate me as a child learning a new language because they knew exactly what I meant, yet they enforced grammatical rules that confused me. Additionally, I recall in fourth grade during math class when my teacher would get upset if I added “and” between large numbers, such as ‘one hundred AND one’ or ‘two thousand AND twenty.’ She would always correct me and explain that there’s no “and” when pronouncing these numbers.