Draft essays 2-03a: Language learning histories

Why are you learning languages? I use langeages for communicate each other. Language makes our communication more smoothly. I have learned four languages since I was born. It took a lot of time to learn each languages. Then I'll introduce languages that I learned.

At first, I have learned English for over 10 years. When I was third year of elementary school, I didn't have English class. However I started to attend "ECC junior". It was very interesting private school. I imitated teacher's pronunciation and practiced it a lot. Every year, I joined the party with foreigners.I couldn't speak only a few English words, but it was just fun. I became fifth year of elementary school, English education earnestly started.

In junior high school, I have still attended its private school. However when I was a second-year student, I quitted for the entrance examination of high school. I entered new cram school, "Subaru", and studied. My English teacher was funny, so I liked to take her class. She taught how she studied English more efficientry. I couldn't study without English text books and words books that I made.

Next is in high school. I was belong to English corse, so I had about three English classes in a day. For example, Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking and English seminar. My high school was belong to "SELHI" program, so sometimes other school's teachers visited our class. We had to do many speech in fron to of classmates. I couldn't express my feeling in my words, but I tried to speak many times. I did Group discussion, Persuasive speech, Constructive speech and so on. These speech were hard to practice but I could have a confidence to speak.

In KGU, I also learn Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking. I wrote essays, read books and studied for TOEIC. I touched English or some languages every day. At the same time I learned French. It was difficult grammer, so I studied a lot before the exam. It pronunciation was different from English, so I used dictionary every time.

In addition, I learned Chinese in technical college. It was interesting to learn its pronuciation. I practiced easy conversation and self-introduction. I haven't studied Chinese before but I though Chinese was little similar to Japanese. And I took special Japanese training. I did voice exercises and tongue twister. I haven't paid attention my Japanese, so it improved my pronunciation better.

As you can see, I have learned many languages. Each languages have unique features, so I enjoyed learning them. It wasn't easy to master languages, but I'm sure most people toush other languages on TV, magazines or newspaper every day. Languages and people are convined together. I want to speak each languages well as well as Japanese!

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How I have learned languages

I have learned languages by listening music and watching movies. For example, I have learned English over 10 years. In elementary school, I have learned it by watching a English TV program. It was better way to learn English for little students. In junior high school, I had some times Oral communication class. Native English teacher came to my class and taught us English pronunciation.  We also had a time to watch a English TV program. When my native English teacher came to my class, we felt fresh. New teacher, new language and new environment, so it was so fun. But I like to listen music foreign country, so I often listened to music and I payed attention to listen what the singer singing. Some times, I watched movies in movie theater or at home. It was difficult for me to follow the speed that people spoke.  But  I found these things were good way to approach real English in my high school days.

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