Essay 2-01a: Three Languages I Have Learned

I can speak Japanese perfectly because I am native speaker. Since I was born, I have listened my mother's voice, and learned Japanese. My first word I said was Mom. I don't remember at all but I think everyone call so because she is a greatest person for baby. Then I learned Japanese step by step for my family.

When I entered the elementary school, I started practice Chinese character and Japanese letter. In my school, we have to dictation of Chinese character and read out text book every day, and it was our homework. I didn't like homework but it would really necessary things to build up our ability. Although I didn't like that but I always full marks in the Chinese character tests!

And I have learned calligraphy for ten year. It was good for me to write beautiful letter. I really liked to going to this class. My teacher was  very gentle and funny person and sometimes I tried hard, she gave me ice cream or some snacks. It was the reason that I was looking forward to going to there. Thanks to teacher, I am good at hand writing and could take a licence.

In the middle school, we started to learning English. I couldn't understand this language at all. In fact, I didn't like English. "Why I should learn this language? I am Japanese!!" Always thought  about like that during English class. But I was second grade in junior high school, I had a chance that I can go America to play basketball game. Because of I like to travel, I decided to go there soon. Speak to America, I need to more space, so I'll cut out. Any way, America was awesome. I loved  English and my host family. Then I wanted to learn more. It  was good experience and chance for me.

After came back Japan, I liked English class the best all of any classes. I felt everything was fun! I knew the teachers sad, and could puzzle out test easily. But the most interested things was singing. In our class, we sing a song before the class. We sung "We are the world" and " Hey Jude" and so on. Every month teacher changed the song, so we could know many songs. I enjoyed singing and thought I'm cool because I can sing a song in English!

When I entered the university, we had to chose and learn one language. There were Germany, Spanish, Russian, French. I choose Germany because this language use alphabet, so I thought it was easy to learn. But it was so complexity. Crammer was the most difficult for me. There is a lot of adverb and inflected forms of a words. I'm groaning on the floor in agony during examination time. I won't to keep learning German any more! So I want to challenge Spanish next time.

Eight years passed I have learn English. But I can't speak well and have some blush to speak. I gave up learning Germany, so I have to master English. To learn other languages are very good for us because we can touch other culture and have a wider view. The reason why I didn't like English was didn't know the world. I knew the pleasure to speak non-Japanese. I knew delicious food in other country. I knew big difference lifestyle and personality. I'm really interest in abroad now. So I want to keep learning and want to go around the world.

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