I’m going to tell you about my language learning story. I learned Japanese
and English and German from a lot of opportunities and people.
First of all, I’m going to tell you when I was in childhood. When
I was in early years, I learned mother tongue from my parents. I heard from
them what I was very late that speaking mother tongue. When I was in the
nursery years, I learned from my teachers and friends. I didn’t speak so much
because I was very reserved. But I just rattled on my family and relatives. I often
cut the nursery school and I went to the house of my grand parents. So, I just
rattled on my grand parents and uncle and aunt and cousin. I learned elemental
Japanese from my family and relatives.
When I was in the elementary school, I learned fundamental
Japanese. For example, hiragana, katakana, Chinese characters and calligraphy.
And I learned Roman letters and took communication with on ALT teacher and my
friends. In the elementary school, I took test of Chinese characters called
“Chinese characters meet” every year. Therefore I cultivated my powers of
Chinese characters.
When I was in the junior high school, I learned Japanese more
detail. I learned modern Japanese and classic Japanese. And sometimes I learned
calligraphy. And I learned reading, writing and communication in English.
Suddenly, study of junior high school got difficult. Especially, I was
remembered the textbook of English as memory work. But it was pleasant and
worth doing for me. In addition, when I took the first test, I learned English
from my sister. If I didn’t learned English from her, I couldn’t be good at and
like English. Consequently, I began to like it. My strongest school subjects
were English and sociology in my junior school days.
When I was in my high school, study was by far more difficult than
junior high school. Especially, classic Japanese began to more difficult. When
I was in the first grade, I hate it and Chinese classics. I took small tests of
them in a class every day and sometimes studied after school as I didn’t passed
them. And I learned reading, writing, speaking and listening in English. I was
very weak in listening. I couldn’t follow English what a person says. I
remembered vocabulary as hard as I could. Consequently, I could begin to read
long sentences in practice exams.
And now I am in the university. I’m learning reading, writing,
speaking, listening and grammar in English. It’s very hard and difficult for
me. And there are a lot of homework. When I was in the first grade, I learned
writing and pronounciation in German. German was very hard for me. But now I
feel that English is more difficult than German. I have been weaken of
listening. I can’t follow English what a person says. But I like speaking.
Lastly, I want to study English more. I don’t have a plan that
study abroad because I don’t think that I want to it now. I want to speak English more and
fluently. First of all, I have to get power of listening and writing and get
better points of TOEIC. And I would like to work a job that is connected with
English after I graduate.
And I would like to get a job
out Kumamoto prefecture.
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