Essay 1-03a: Language Learning History

I was born in Japan and I was brought up in Japan, so my mother tongue is Japanese. But I have learned not only Japanese but also other languages. And I am in the Department of Foreign language. I’m learning English every day. I will tell about what languages I have learned, why I want to learn and how I learned that languages. 

When I was a child attending kindergarten, I touched English. It was a first time I touched foreign language. The reason why I try to study English is my older sister was learning English, and then I would like to have come to learn it. The lesson had in my kindergarten because the English teacher come my kindergarten to teach. I enjoyed learning English with singing English songs. I learned English at kindergarten until I finish kindergarten.

I was change the place to learn English when I entered elementary school. But I learn it from a same teacher. The teacher opened English school. It named L&C English house. I want to there until I graduate high school. In my school, it started to English class when I was in 5th grade. It was too easy for me. I was always thinking I learned alphabet 6 or 7 years ago.

Two years later, I entered junior high school. I began to learn Japanese classical literature. I became like it. And I have many time chances to speak foreigner. My private English conversation teachers were Americans or Australians and so on. And my school ALT came from Malaysia. I used to speak with her. She taught me English and I taught her Kagoshima dialect.

I was 14 years old, I went to New Zealand. It was home stay program and first time to go abroad. I’m good at listening but I weak in speaking. So, I make myself understand with gesture. I learned history of NZ in English and I learned Korean from my Korean friends. They were good at Japanese, so they taught me the means which words I couldn’t understand. I learned not only English but also Korean in NZ.

In high school, I studied Japanese, the classic and English. I was putting a great deal of effort into the classical because I like my Japanese teacher. But I went Japanese course at university. I thought English will be important in the future. Then I was admitted to KGU. I’m learning English and I took German class last year. German says Deutsch in German. I sometimes use German to my friends.

In conclusion, I have learned Japanese, the classical, English, Korean and German by now. I had taken to studying foreign languages unawares. In the future, also I want to study history because I learned only languages. I was said that if you want to speak foreigner, you have to learn their history. So, I have to study history. But I don’t like history class. First of all, I must do what I can do now. Then I will study history and other languages which I don’t have learned.

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