5th Essays: My Three Languages

I’ll show you about my language learning history. It’s about three languages, Japanese, English and German. I’m Japanese, so I always use Japanese. Next, I learned English for the first time when I was in a nursery school. Then, I learned German when I was fresh person.

The first, I learned how to read and write in a nursery school. Then, we have had Japanese classes since junior high school students. We learn reading, speaking, writing and listening and I think mainly reading and writing. In reading, we read our textbooks. In writing, we practice kanji and learn the contents of stories and literary works. Then, we learn grammar of modern Japanese and classic. We must understand and use correct Japanese.

The second, I spoke English in a nursery school because a teacher who could speak English was there, so I took a class. I was so fun and used English which was taught at home. And I started to learn English when I was in the fourth grader because my friends learned English. I went till a second grader at junior high school. English which I learned by junior high school was also reading and writing, mainly. We read our textbooks and learned grammar and vocabulary. English which I learned in a senior high school could learn speaking and listening than ever. Also, we learned more grammar and vocabulary. At first, I started to study English because it was a new subject and my friends learned. But this experience was good for me. I was very interested in English and wanted to go abroad and communicate with English. I took Eiken, learned English from a Canadian and went to English conversation classes. I still study English in university. In university, I can study writing, reading, speaking and listening. I’m lack of listening ability and I must study it more. Reading can learn things which don’t learn yet and we can have opportunity of speaking. I want to go America or Australia as first as possible I can because I have never been abroad. I’d like to work with English in the future.

The third, I decided to learn German in university because it’s used in many fields. I could learn reading and grammar. German had many words which be similar to English and I had easy to memorize words. We learned German with cassette tapes and listened to correct German. It is right for me to learn German because German words are in other classes. Though I don’t study German now, I think to have another look at it.

As I have said, I have ever studied three subjects. Japanese is my mother tongue and I always use Japanese. Japanese has kanji, hiragana and katakana, and it seemed to be difficult for other country’s people. English is so important in modern society and a common language in the world. It will be useful us in this society. German is useful in my classes. I go abroad and want to study English more.
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