June 11, 2008

Super Woman

Today, I will talk about My learning language history.



I was interested in English when I was elementary student, nine years old. One of my friends went to cram school of English. I heard about English from her, so I also wanted to go there and learn English. Then, I went to cram school of English every Friday. Entered the junior high school, I had a English classes. I was looking forward to attend it every week. I loved learning English. However, I stopped going to cram school because I was very busy to do club activity and so on. I stopped going to cram school, only I enjoyed learning English in junior high school. From then on I have studied English for 10 years.




When I was high school student, I entered English speech contest. It was very difficult to me, but it was very studied for me. And I could make many foreign friends in my high school because international community was very active and school had sister school in America. Therefore, I could talk with them in English. It was good chance for learning native English.




When I was second grade of high school, I had a Korean classes. My father was always went to Korean for his job and told me about there, so I was interested in Korea and took course in Korean. Teacher was not Japanese, he was native Korean, so we could learn an accurate pronunciation. I studied again and again because Korean was very difficult, but I wanted to understand it. Then, I get full marks in the test.
My high school had also sister school in Korea, so Korean students came to my school every year. I talked with them. This is also help me to study Korean.


I went on to college. I was first grade last year. I took manicures in many types. That were excited me, especially Spanish was great! I knew some Spanish words because I had a foreign friend who speaks Spanish and taught me it. I learned Spanish grammar and conversation. And now, I am second grade of college. I also am taking Spanish classes this year. There are only four students in Spanish classes, so we can learn more deeply than last year. Sometimes, I call my friend who I told before and I speak some Spanish. Then, she surprised what I could speak Spanish.



Finally, I started to learn Chinese because my father's friend who is travel agent said " Do you study Chinese? If you want to work in travel company, you should study it." I didn't think what "I want to be travel agent like my father' friend" at first, but I was interested in that occupation, so I decided to learn Chinese. There are two times when I study Chinese in a week, Tuesday and Friday. Chinese pronunciation is very difficult. It is no close to Japanese, English and Spanish. I think my Chinese skill is very very bad, but I am studying hard to master it. Then, I want to make a perfect score on the next test, so I do my best and I never give up.


This is the way my history of language. I am thinking now "I studied four language, but I didn't master any language....." Therefore, I want to continue to study English, Korean, Spanish and Chinese. Then, I become super woman who can speak many language!

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2 comments:

chie said...

Hi, Ina :-)
You've studied many languages!! Great.
So I have questions. How do you study Chinese? I want to know! And if you study other languages, what do you want to study?

dumpling said...

YO! good morning:)
yeah you can do that"!!
i cheering for you!