My Language Learning History

What language can you speak? I will talk about my language learning history. I always speak Japanese because I live in Japna and it is my mother tongue. Also, I speak English a little in class. However, I'm very intested in other foreign language.

When I was eight years old I went to the English conversation class for the first time. Because my mother wanted me to like and to be able to speak English. At the class, I did mainly games, singing songs, listening, memorizing, writing and so on except conversation. I enjoyed and it was good for me, I think. I became to like English.

I wanted to be able to speak English, so I took part in English speech contest with friends for three years during the junior high school. We did our best at the contest, but we could not get the prize. However, we had very precious and good experiences. When I was in the eighth grade, I went to Canada for two weeks for home stay program. I went to Halifax in Nova Scotia. It was country but people were so kind, gentle and friendly, so I like them very much and I want to go there again. I like Canada!

In high school, I learned reading, listening, writing, grammar, and oral communication. It was different from junior high school. I only enjoyed in junior high school but it was enough for a enjoyable in high school. It also included difficult and hard but I liked English so I decide to study English in KGU.

I have studied French since I entered the university. I am interested in Europe, of course France, because it is so fashionable. It was very difficult, for example, grammar and pronunciation although it was similar to English. The class is translate "Jeanne d'Arc" French into Japanese. It is so difficult that we need dictionary and preparation before a class.

Last year, I studied Korean. I have been interested in Korea because It had been very very popular about Korea in Japanese people such as movie and drama, and it is nearby Japan. It was the first time that I studied the Hangul alphabet at the class. At first, it was troubling to understand Hangul, but I understood gradually because my interest was superior to my troubling. I want to learn Korean more and more after this, and I want to go South Korea at any cost.
In this year, I have studied Chinese because I also had been interested in Chinese. However, it is more difficult than Korean, I thought. Translating from Chinese into Japanese is easier because it is used kanji, but it was more troubling to pronounce and have good intonation. I need more studied harder.

To learn foreign language is important for me, and it makes me growing up. I am very happy when I could read or understand French or Korean unexpected. If you are in Foreign Language Department or you are interested in foreign language, I think you had better start to study them or to study more and more. It will surely be good for you. I intend to study them after this, and I want to use them in the future.

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