Essays 2-01a: My learned language

I have ever learned Japanese, English and Germany. My first language is Japanese. I have spoken  it from when I was child. I was early to begin to speak Japanese. Maybe I spoke Japanese word for the first time when I was eight months. When I was a child, I had words board machine of Anpanman. If I touch the word, the machine was spoken some words. I remember it even now. And I understood Japanese to watch TV.

 I learned hiragana and katakana when I was 5 years old. I have learned kanji from when I was second grade student. Kanji gradually have been difficult. Kanji of my name is easy, so I finished learned my kanji when I was fourth grade student. But I hated kanji and I am not good at it. 

 I began to study English when I was junior high school student. I have used English when I was elementary school student because I had gone to English lesson. But I had not understood English then. So I am very much like I began to study English from junior high school.

English which I studied in junior high school is very different from that of what I  learned in elementary school. When I was elementary school student, I used English to speak or communication. But from junior high school it is important to read sentence, do grammer and memorize English words. So I didn't like English class like that, but I enjoyed English class of foreign teacher.

I didn't hate English in junior high school, but I didn't like it in high school. I have learned about grammer, but it was more difficult to memorize many things in high school than in junior high school. And sentences were longer, words were more increase. What I don't like memorize is reason which I don't like English. If I took good points on exam in school, I could not read long sentence and I didn't know English words. There were no words which I had not to memorize. I had to memorize all words.

I especially studied grammar and words of English in high school. I studied grammar with English workbook. I did a lot of pattern work. I understood grammar. But words which I memorized is a little. So I could not read sentence. I study English in my college. English is my second language. I study speaking, writing, listening, reading of English. I don't like English even now, but I want to complete English Because I thought that it is strange I have learned English long time and not to use English.

I studied Germany in my class a year ago. I didn't have knowledge of Germany. So it was very difficult for me. I studied Germany with textbook. In textbook, there are some example. I had a book of two type. One is grammar book and the other is conversation book. I studied grammar to do workbook of some pattern. So I had understood grammar then, but I forgot it now. About conversation of that, I don't memorize some conversation. I know only a few conversation. I listened Germany and I spoke it every week. I did it all what I could do. Patiently, I studied it and I memorized it. 

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