Essays 2-01a: How I Studied Languages

I learned three languages. I learned Japanese, English, and French. My mother tong is Japanese, so it is not easy to study them, because English and French consist of SVO. You know Japanese consist of SOV, so the construction is not same. That is why it was not easy to study and understand them.

In my case, the first language which I learned was English when I was junior high school student. At first, I could not understand how I study it, how I understand it and how I use it. I was always worried about my grade and my life after I graduated. However, I saw an English teacher. Her name was Ms. Wada.
 She told me a good way for studying other languages. First of all, she said me “never think a language which you learn is not same with your mother tong.” Next, you must listen the language, pay more attention for the pronunciations, write anything in English without consider about mistake, and use the language. All of them have each meaning. I can learn how to pronounce words by listening the language carefully. I can learn many vocabularies by writing something in English, because when we writing something, we have a same question. It is word. If you tried to write a word: book, but you don’t know, you must be look up the word on a dictionary. The process is very good thing for remember lots of vocabularies. I can learn the way to use many words.

After I taught them from her, I tried to do that. Few months later, I felt tow things. They were that I could memorize many words and the way to use the word, and hear English better than before. Then I thought. The wrong was my way of studying. Her advices made me improve and it was a good job for me.

At this KGU, I have started to learn French. I didn’t have confidence. However, I tried to do the way which my teacher Ms. Wada. However French was very difficult for me because it was little bit same but there are many differences between English and French. Not to mention, there are many differences between Japanese and French more than between Japanese and English. It was very confused me.

 Then I met Ms. Wada, again. Then I asked her how to study other language by using another ways. Then she told me another way. It was very simple. It was to do many practices. I solve many questions on the note again and again. At the final test, I could solve the many questions.

From my experience, to study other country is very difficult for us, but we have to do listening, writing, practicing the language, and using the language, and they will make us a good roll.

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