How did you succeed in university when English is not your first language?

Hello guys, I am very depressed aka overwhelmed rn, I’m in university (should’ve gone to college but too late, already in second year). I enrolled in Business program, the most challenging courses for this term are Law and Communication courses, and the school works are just so effin overwhelming, not mentioning I still have trouble with high level academic English vocabulary. I came to Canada to start grade 11 four years ago, still, not used to all the words yet. My Law reading is horrible, just imagine if it takes a normal person to read a chapter an hour, it’d take me 2. Meaning it’s double stressful level. I don’t know what to do, drop out of school? Ye I’ve thought about it but def not a good idea. Thus I’m here for study advice, what did you do to do well at university when English is not your first language? You would understand when I say that in everything I read, there’ll be at least 1 word I don’t know in every sentence in the textbook. I tried everything, translated the whole paragraph to my mother tongue, or look up every word I don’t know in both English and my first language, didn’t really work, I don’t remember it afterwards, and this method takes tons of time.

Submitted January 27, 2022 at 09:28PM by Few_Mistake_4806 https://ift.tt/3u3Ya6P