2-03a: Personal Language Learning History

I have learned languages since I was a little girl. I think that languages are pretty important to take communication with other people. I have learned 3 languages. I will talk about the progress I am learning them.

First, I have learned French for 1 year. KGU eibei department students have to take a foreign language class except for English. Then I chose French for it because I am little interested in France. It is so difficult for me to learn French. French is differ from than English. They resemble in the words but the grammar do not resemble. I was so confused while I have learn French. Now I do not learn French but I think it was a good experience to learn other languages.

Second, I have learned Japanese since I was a little girl. Japanese is my mother tongue and I like Japanese. According to my parents, I started to learn Japanese early. I learned to write Japanese hiragana earlier than my older brother's age that he learned to write. I like Chinese characters. I think that it is a one of the pretty interesting points of Japanese. Chinese characters have some means by it selves. Then they can have other means through they combine with. I am not a girl who read books a lot. I read books only while a Japanese class besides I just read the text books that use in class. I just endeavor to remember the Chinese characters that I looked in the text books once.

Third, I have learned English since I was a junior high school student. I went to juku to study and separately I taught English by a tutor for 3 years. The tutor's English class made me pleasant to study English. Then I decided enter Kumamoto Kita high scool's English course and I entered there. I have learned a lot of things during I stayed the English course. I was experienced a guide for Kumamoto castle in English when I was 1st grade in high school during summer vacation, did campings with my classmates only speaking English, English play in school festival and so on. These experiences are so precious for me. After that, I have entered KGU. I have to take 4 English classes(speaking, reading, listening, and writing) in KGU. I had a new big experience in this university.

I went to Minnesota, America for 4 weeks during this summer vacation. I had never been to foreign country ever before. Then it is my first time to leave Japan. I feel nervous, but also exciting. I touched a lot of another culture's customs. Then I had never have a chance that I speak English all day before. I heard noise in English. I felt strange heart. But it is a obvious precious experience for me. Before I went to Minnesota, I do not want to go to a foreign country, but after that my thought changed. I want to go foreign countries much more.

I have learned French,Japanese,and English. All of them, I like to learn. Especially English and Japanese, I want to learn more. I want to be a good English speaker and a good Japanese user. It is difficult that use languages rightly though Japanese is my mother tongue. Much less English is not mother tongue, it is very differ with Japanese. Then I will more study each languages, and improve each languages.

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