I'll tell you about my language learning
history. I have learned some language since I was a child. My language learning
history started in my childhood. Next, I learned Japanese and English at the
secondary school. Now, I have learned English and French at KGU.
First, I learned my mother tongue,
Japanese, in my childhood. I couldn’t write it and read any Japanese words in
the nursery school because anyone didn't teach me. I learned how to write
Japanese words at the elementary school for the first time. When I learned how to write kanji, I tried to
write it with a ruler, and my teacher warned me. It was embarrassing memory for
me.
I learned Japanese in junior high school
and high school. I learned modern and classic Japanese. The classic was more
difficult than modern language because we don’t use classic Japanese. I thought
the classic like a foreign language. However, I was interested in it in high
school because my classic teacher’s class was fun. My classic teacher was Mr.
Sanada. I liked the Tale of Genji. When I read it, I was frustrated. I think
that it is characteristic to feel disappoint.
I think Hyakunin-Isshu is a good way to
learn classic Japanese, but I have never played it. I want to try it sometime.
I also learned English in junior high school
and high school. I learned grammar there, and I trained reading and listening
in high school. I had to remember some sentences in the textbook in junior high
school. It was hard for me. In high school, I had special activities to learn
English. These were English drama and English summer camp. It was a good chance
to speak English teachers who came from overseas.
I learned French at KGU last year. I
thought French was more difficult than Japanese because Japanese doesn’t have
grammatical gender. It was so difficult for me. However, French has words which
are similar to English, so I could understand a little. Saying “bonjour” was
the most difficult for me because pronunciation about “r” was not easy. It
differs from English. I practiced it every class. I learned grammar at the
French class. For example, I learned the past form, the comparative and so on.
It was so difficult, but I studied hard to get a credit.
Now, I learn English at KGU. I have some
classes to learn English. Reading, Writing, Speaking and listening class are
good to make great skill. In the Reading class, we’re learning how to read a
newspaper in English. It is interesting for me because I can learn new things
in that class. Newspapers written in English have a lot of rules, for example,
comma means “and.” If I didn’t take this class, I would not read English
newspaper well. I also take the linguistics of English. In this class, I
learned about the origin of English. I found that English has a long history
and some language affect English.
My language learning history started in my
childhood, and I learned Japanese and English at the elementary school, junior
high school and high school. In this college, I learned French and English.
Through my language learning history, I think that I should study language
harder because I can’t speak English fluently even though I have studied
English more than 10 years. I have to study honorific words in Japanese because
we need it after we graduate from this college. I had learned about language until
now, but I need more skill about language.
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