essays2-03b The long way to learn lunguage!

I’m learning our language naturally, and then I want tell you about my language story. When I was a baby, I learned language through being talked my family and other people. Now I’m learning four languages, and three of them are not the mother tongue. In the future, I will speak more variety and I will know more words.


I want to be a good English speaker and I want to be able to talk with foreign people through English in my future. And then, I will tell them about my country, Japan. In order to talk Japanese, I need to study foreign language more.


When I was elementary school student, I was learning Japanese, but sometimes I learned English at the class of Assistant language Teacher in my town.


After that, in my junior high school, I learned English as a second language. Then I was not interested in English, so I was very poor at English. When I became a high school student I got to like English. I learned the skills, for example, Reading, Listening Speaking and Writing.


In high school, I practice reading skill and listening skill mainly by the examination. I always memorize some new words at the introduction of the class. What I did was called word test, and it had 20 questions. Thanks to the activity of the class, I could get reading skill somehow. Although I got be able to get information, these skills were not the skills for telling information


Now, I'm learning a little French and Korean, and my learning language style has changed. Through learning the grammar of other languages, I feel studying a language is connecting with other languages. Some languages have similar grammars. For example, I can learn French is referring to English grammar, and I also can study Korean easily thanks to its similarity to Japanese.


My English learning style also is changing. I'm learning the conversation English skills. In the speaking class, I can learn speaking skill through talking in English and peacticing English presentations. I can practice my writing skill in the Writing class. In this class, I'm blogging on my own blog in English, and commenting on these of other with my classmates. Through these two activities, I'm improving my English skills.


On the other hand, I can know Japanese more because I have the knowledge of contrasting. I can compare Japanese with English, Frtench, And Korean. The features of Japanese are very similar to Korean. Some words are the same. The word yakusoku (promise) is both Korean and Japanese.


By means of, my learning style has changed with my circumstances. From the time when I was born to now, I've acquired the ability of speaking Japanese. On the way of learning Japanese, I saw other languages, and I have learned mainly English. In the future, I will learn more about the skill of speak English and I want to be good at English. [493 words]