My Language Learning History

Now, I'll talk about my history of learning foreign languages. I've learned three foreign languages.At first, when I was 5 years old, I began to learn English. I went to English conversation school for ten years. This experience is my precious thing for my history. Because of this beginning of learning English, I got to like English, and of course also now. But at first, I didn't begin to go to English conversation school of my own accord. In reality, my mother took me there and had me go there once a week. At the beginning, I went there without understood anything, because I was too small to understand all. But I got fun to touch English without my knowledge.

I entered elementary school. The English conversation school which I went to was on a small scale, but I gladly went to English conversation school as before. I liked English, my teachers and my friends. I couldn't regard English as my study.

When I was 13 years old, my two classmates and me took part in English recitation tournament. And we came off second best in the prefecture. Because of this, we couldn't enter that tournament during we were junior high school student, but I was so glad then. And I was best at English in 5 subjects, Japanese, math, science, social studies and English.

When I entered high school, I came up against a stone wall of English. It was my first experience. I didn't care about grammar of English till entering high school, so I couldn't keep up with an English class in high school. I didn't know even a gerund, an adverb and so on. I studied English hard. And then, I began to think that I want to be an English teacher. So, I decided to take universities which we can get an English teacher's certificate entrance exam.

Now, I go to KGU. But, to be frank with you, I wanted to go another university. But now, I'm really happy in this university, because I met so many great people. And also, I learned Korean and Germany when I was first grade. It was good experience, too. But actually, it was very difficult for me to learn Germany. I felt uneasy about credits of Germany. But I somehow took them. To tell the truth, I didn't like learning Germany, because Germany is very difficult! On the other hand, learning Korean was fun for me. I felt that Korean is similar to Japanese, so I could learn Korean happily. If I have my free time, I want to learn Korean much more. But now, I'm busy. My time is completely taken up with learning English I have on hand.