My favorite countries

This time, I'm going to introduce about my favorite countries. They are Norway, Germany and Canada. I haven't ever gone to foreign countries. So, these countries are that I want to visit someday. At the first, I want to visit Norway. I don't know why I have been had admiration for there since I was in a junior high school student. I want to see an aurora in Norway. Aurora is very mystic. The light color is white and red-green, the form is curtain and indefinite. Aurora appears at altitude of one hundred kilo meters in the air. I want so much to see an aurora. If after I see it, I would surely change a my view of the world. I might be able to fearlessly challenge various things that I haven't ever been able to. And the next purpose that I want to visit Norway is that I like a cold climate and snow.　Norway belongs to the Frigid Zone and I want to feel in my body genuine cold. Maybe I think nothing of cold but I want to enjoy cold climate and snow. And I want to experience the midnight sun, I learned about it in the class of geography when I was in a high school student. It is a phenomenon that the sun doesn’t go down all day. So it can’t see daytime and night if it doesn’t watch clock. I want to experience the midnight sun in Norway a land of severe cold. But I can’t understand the Norway language and I want to have only a smattering of it.

At the second, I want to visit Germany. When I was in the first in this university, I learned the German language. It was very difficult for me but I think that it resembles to English a little. I want to visit Germany because I learned German. I want to eat sausage and hamburger in there because they are the home. The origin of the name of hamburger is Hamburg that a place name in Germany. And I want to drink the German Beer. I want to enjoy the home of taste but I would surely become intoxicated soon. And I want to visit tourist place of interest such as a world cultural heritage. For example, church and castle. And I want to appreciate nature and culture characteristic of Germany. I appreciate the atmosphere of fashionable and adult, I want to grow up.

At the third, I want to visit Canada. It can see an aurora, too. I don’t know why I want to visit Canada. I want to feel in my body an extensive nature such as the Rocky Mountains and lake and NAIAGARA waterfall. If after I see such extensive nature, I would surely think that my worrying is very small. And I want to eat maple syrup that is the home. I want to eat many delicious sweets that it can’t eat only Canada.

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Essay 2-01a: language Learning History

Essays 1-03b: Language Learning Story

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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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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Essay prep fro 1-03a:My language learning story:Map[s] and Outline

My language learning story

• childhood
• early years
• mother tongue
• parents
• pre-school years
• nursery school
• teachers
• friends
• family
• parents
• older sister
• relatives
• grand parents
• uncles and aunts
• cousins
• neighbors
• elementary school
• classes
• hiragana
• katakana
• kanji
• shu-ji
• English
• communication
• ALT teacher
• secondary school
• junior high school
• Japanese
• modern Japanese
• classic Japanese
• shodhou
• English
• reading
• writing
• communication
• ALT teacher
• high school
• Japanese
• modern Japanese
• classic Japanese
• kanbun
• English
• reading
• writing
• speaking
• listening
• ALT teacher
• college
• English
• reading
• writing
• speaking
• listening
• German
• grammer
• pronounciation
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