Essay 1-03a: Language Learning History

I can speak Japanese and English and French, but I only speak a little French. I'm studying Japanese and English now. Why I can speak English and Japanese and French? I will tell you about my language learning stories.

First of all, my tongue is Japanese. I have heard around languages when I was a little girl. My family can speak Japanese. In other word, my family only speak Japanese, so I didn't hear other languages. The others were speaking only Japanese, too. They were people of neighborhood and so on. So, when I was a little girl, I only speak Japanese.

In my childhood, I only speak Japanese, too. I talked with preschool friends and teachers, so I began to speak dialect. I learned many words from many people. I enjoyed to talk with many people. I like to talk with people, so I could talk well.

When I was a student in elementary school, I could speak Japanese well and I began to speak a little English. I had ALT class in the elementary school. The school has a teacher of ALT. His name is Jon. He teach us easy English through games of English. He was very unique guy, so we could enjoy to study English. I could remember words of English from him. The other things, he told us English songs. There were the Beetles and Mariah Carey and so on. He told us interesting and easy song. So, we could hear these songs. We could enjoy to study English. Also, he told us easy grammar. But I couldn't understand them well. I like to hear English songs and English games very much.

Next, when I was a student in junior high school, I began to have classes of English. I began to study English legitimate at the class. First, I learned grammar of English. It was too difficult for me. But I used to go cram school, so I could understand grammar of English. Also, I began to study speaking of English. I remembered basis sentence and I could speak a little English. I felt cool to speak English.

When I was a student in high school, I had to study harder. I learned English and Japanese detailed. I learned grammar and sentence and speaking and writing of English for examination of college. It was too hard for me, but my teacher told me politely. Japanese is sentence and anthology and classic Japanese. I hated classic Japanese.

In the college, I learned English and Japanese and French! French is the most difficult for me. Grammar and sentence of French is too difficult. I felt I like my tongue. Also, I have to learn English more harder. English is profound, so I'm interested in learning English. I learned writing and reading and listening and speaking and grammar of English from my class. My teachers told me English. My weak point of English is speaking, but I want to speak fluently. So, I have to learn harder. Also, I have to write reports. I have to write Japanese well when I write reports. So I have to learn Japanese.

The others, I learned a lot of languages from TV. My mother like Korean TV drama. So, I can listen Korean, but I can't speak it and write. I listen many language from TV sometimes.

I can speak Japanese and English and French. I learned from many people. They are teachers and family and friend and so on. I can understand English and French, but I had not spoken it with people. So, I want to make use of them someday.

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