Essay1-05 My Language Learning History

My native language

I am a Japanese, so my native language is Japanese. I have been studied Japanese since I was born. I entered elementary school when I was 6 years old, I started to study actual Japanese. The early school year of elementary, we read Japanese text book, and write "Japanese Hiragana","Japanese Katakana" and "Japanese Kanji". The texy book of early year of elementary was written in plain Japanese Hiragana and Kanji. We got skills at using, reading and writing Japanese through that. I think the purpose of that is to get used to Japanese more. Growing up senior grade of elementary school, Kanji in Japanese text book become more difficult. I think learning Japanese in elementary school is very important. That is the basic, without basic of Japanese, we can not read and understand examination sentence.

My second language

Elementary school
I have been studied English about 9 years. My first time of learning English was elementary school. I was 6th grade. I attend to teacher's house near my house. She was a Japanese. I attend to learn English with my younger sister once a week. I was urged by my mother at the first, but I thought it was good chance to start learning English. I learned about plane and basic words such as cat, house and more. It was a interesting and funny time.

Junior high school
I entered junior high school. We started study English as a regular class. We studied pronouncing alphabet and grammar of English. My English teacher was a eager teacher, so we learned how to pronounce English by him. I think it is important that practicing pronounce alphabet. A word is assemble of alphabets. I think I can not pronounce any word without pronouncing education.
Learning English in junior high school, we had ALT. ALT stands for Assistant Language Teacher. They are native of English. Some time they joined our classes and introduced him/herself. It was very good experience because I have no chances to meet people from other countries.

High school
High school English was quite different from of that in junior high school. We studied grammar, read long article a solved any problems. The level of problem became more and more high. We did not pronounced word and read English text. For high school English teacher, English was a subject only for university entrance examination. I thought high school English was a kind of duty. It was very dull for me.

University
I attend to KGU. I am majoring English. My department specialized English speaking, writing and listening. We speak only English in speaking class, we listen and catch English in listening class and write a blog only English. Most of English teachers are people from foreign counties, so sometime I can not catch what they speaks. I must make effort.[475 words-total 3331words]