Essay 2-02b: My Languages Learning Experiences

I will tell you about my languages learning experiences. Of course, my first learning language is Japanese. Japanese has three literatures. It is “Hiragana”, “Kanji” and “Katakana”. First of all, I started to study “Hiragana” when we were elementary school student, and also we started to study “Katakana”. It was easy to remember for me, but it is hard to write “Kanji” even now, because there are many difficult them.

When I was the upper grades of elementary school, I learned “Romaji”. I was suffering from to remember it. Then, I started to study about English alphabet. My piano teacher taught me both piano and English, because my piano teacher could speak English and her sister got married with American. So I was longing for the teacher very much.

When I was a junior high school student, I started to study English grammar. I couldn’t understand even simple sentences before I study English. But I became understand it little by little. I took private lessons in English and mathematics about for three years. Thanks to my cram school teacher, English was one of my favorite subjects.

When I was a high school student, I started to learn “Kobun” and “Kanbun”. But present day, we don’t use these languages in daily life. Moreover it was so difficult for me so I didn’t like to study their languages. I became a high school student, I could read English long sentences and I began to think about my course. I decided to do after graduation. I want to work for travel agency after graduation from a University. So I took foreign language department entrance examination of KGU.

When I was a first-year university student, I studied German. It was good for me. I was looking forward to studying it because I liked the teacher. The teacher was Mr. Yagi. I took the German classes twice a week. If I have opportunity to learn it, I want to study again. German is similar to English, so you may understand it easily. It would be good for you if you study it!

I am studying both English and Korean now. These languages are one of my favorite languages. Before I started to study Korean, I couldn’t understand Korean alphabet. Now, I sometimes don’t understand Korean alphabet, but I can read and write it. Moreover, I can say simple conversations. However it took time for me! This year, I went to both America and Korea. At that time, I noticed that I have to make efforts to study these languages more! I also realized that the importance to study languages.

Next, my best learning language experience was home stay in Minnesota. I stayed there about for a month. It was first time to go to America so I was worried about my English skills before I stayed there. And I couldn't speak well at that time so I have to study it more. I realized that the important thing was challenge to speak English if I didn’t know what to say in English!!

Finally, MN was so good place!! I learned many things there. And I could meet my host family, friends and teachers!! Today, I sometimes send E-mail to my host mother and brother. I’m going to send a Christmas card to my host family! I want to meet them again. This is my precious languages learning experiences!!

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