The Trouble with English is the story of a girl named Ting Yao who moves from China to the United States. The book is a first-person account of her experiences learning English at school. She has many difficulties with the unfamiliar idioms, pronunciations, and spellings of the English language. Ting Yao relates her frustrations with learning this new language but realizes that she will eventually master English.

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