Essay 1-03a: My Language Learning Story and Plans

Since I was born, I have learned some languages and many words. I have lived with Japanese words all the time. When I was young, the people around me taught some words. However, I was too young, so I couldn't say right such as “man-ma”. It means mother. After I entered elementary school, I learned kanji. I think that I learned a large number of kanji, mostly when I was an elementary school student. I studied it hardly. At my school, we used “kanji skill” which is a workbook of kanji and we had kanji tests of the workbook every week. We my classmates studied hard to get the high score. Since I was a third grade of the elementary school, I began to go to English conversation school. I continued to go to there until third grade of high school. In the beginning, I had been taught some greetings and easy words. After I entered junior high school, I studied English proficiency test using textbooks. Thanks to that, I could get used to English earlier than usual and I came to like English. Since I was a junior high school student, I learned Japanese classics. Although I didn’t think it is difficult as I was a junior high school student, it became to think it is difficult since high school. The reason is that I had to remember a lot of words’ meaning and Japanese particles. At the high school, we had to prepare lessons every class. However, thanks to that, I can understand better than the past. Now, I study English every day at the university. I became to be able to write a lot in English and read English newspaper a little. However, I’m not good at speak English, pronounce English and listen English. I think overcoming that will change me, so I want to make efforts.

In the future, I would like to get better English skills then. I want to go abroad once using my English fluency. In addition, I want to use English dairy. I don’t decide my dream clearly yet, but I want to get a job such relate to English. Now, I study teaching profession, so I have to get much better some English skills!

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