Essay 2-02c; My Language Learning Experience

I want to tell you about my language learning experience, So far I learned English and German and Japanese so far. I study now. Japanese is my mother tongue so I had to study Japanese in elementary school and junior high school and high school. It’s class was called Kokugo. All Japanese students have to study. English too. Some elementary school doesn’t have the class but almost elementary class has. In university, I could choose one language from some language. For example, French and Spanish. I chose German.

First I’ll talk about my German learning experience. Why I chose German? First I heard my older friends that German is easier than other language. Second German grammar is similar to English grammar. So I decided. I went to the German class last year. The class is little difficult for me. But I have many friends in the class. My friends and I helped each other.

For example, When I was absent the class, next week class I had to do the print of the absent class and I had to hand in the print. That is very terrible and I couldn’t understand what the print mean and show. Then I asked my friends. They helped me and tough the contents so I could understand and I can hand in my print to my teacher.

German has many articles. For example, man article and woman article and neutral article. German verb have each nature so I have to remember that each verb fall under each article. This is very difficult and many!

But I could take the credits of German, so I like German and German accent is very interesting for me. Sometimes I talk with my friends in German. It is really fun. If I have a chance, I want to go Germany.

Next I’ll talk my learning English experience. When I started study English in junior high school, I didn’t like study English very much, because I couldn’t remember English words but I tried recollecting that and I began go to the cram so I could understand English grammar and words. Then I came to like English little.

This summer, I went to Minnesota. I had a wonderful time! I had many worries before went. But my host mother and American teachers and friends are very kind. I love them. When I couldn’t talk my host mother about my school day well, my host mother try understood hard and she tough me some words and sometime I had mistakes for example, when I wanted to say “whale” but I said “whore”. My host mother was very surprised and confused. She said “what??”I noticed I had very much mistake and I corrected myself. She laughed. It was very funny.

I learned English words are similar and little difficult! But I could talk about my school day once more. Then I was very happy.

I am thankful for all people teach me English and many things in America. I think that I have to study English more and more so I’ll go Minnesota again!

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