Essay 1-03a: language Learning Story

I’m going to tell you about my language learning history. I learned various languages from a lot of opportunities.

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 I was very late that speaking the 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 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. 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 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 homeworks. 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 like English more. I don’t have a plan that study abroad. First of all, I want to get power of listening and get better points of TOEIC. And I would like to work a job that is connected with English.


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