Importance of transitioning from the private language of the home to the public language of the school.

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Question: Is the transition from the private language of the home to the public language of the school a necessary part of education? Write an essay, based on your experience, observation, and reading, in which you address this question.
The transition from the private language of the home to the public language of the school
is not only a necessary part of education but also an important challenge of life.
As a second language learner of English who had been speaking Mandarin for seventeen
years, I remember the days when I had to memorize more than one hundred English vocabularies
daily which helped me building up my vocabularies. However, I realized my efforts was merely
on the definitions of the words, I did not have the courage to use those words in conversations
because I knew I always had trouble distinguishing the pronunciations between "w" and "v."
Mandarin is a tone language with only five different tones, and my tongue had been so used to
the positions it had to be in order to pronouce words. Plus, there are no words that contain V in
Mandarin. To be honest, I had never realized this was a serious issue until I met my first speech
teacher in America, Helena.
"My name is Helena; I have worked with some kids from other countries that learned
English as their second language."
I nodded and smiled at her as a response.
"So, how are you?" She asked.
"Hnnn, I'm... okay... You?"
"I've been doing very well." As she articulated "very well" I knew she was going to give
me a hard time on these two simple words.
"Can you just repeat 'very well' very well?"
"Wery well." I know I said it wrong.
"It's a 'v'; you know the difference." I nodded again. Certainly, I knew the difference. For
years I had been trying to avoid using words starting with 'V's: when I had to say the adverb
"very," my mouth just came up with "pretty." For me this was no wonder: my subconsciousness
had eliminated every word starting with a "v".
"It's very easy to pronounce 'v,' I know you have problems because you don't have any
'V's in your first language." She said.
"That is so true, there is no "v" in Mandarin. " Then she used her upper backside of the
bottom lip to press very lightly into the bottom of the top teeth; although she did it in an
extremely exaggerated way, it still became the first time ever that I found the key to pronounce
"v."
"I think I got it! This should be wery easy, excuse me, veeeery easy.”
As I said the word "very" correctly, for the first time, I was so ecstatic that I gave Helena
a high five. I felt I dropped a heavy burden that had been on my shoulders for years, as I was
able to step into the landmine zone full with 'v's that was deeply buried in my mind, and those
landmines made up by 'v's, were finally cleared out by me.
Although four years had passed since I first took Helena's lesson, I still remember how
much impact her lessons gave me: I was no longer afraid of speaking in public in English. The
growth of confidence in speaking English was not merely a necessity of education itself but more
a completion of a life challenge.