Essay 2-02a: So I study

I have learned 4 languages; Japanese, English, Korean and Spanish. For me, studing other languages is to meet and know another people in the world. However, at the same time, it's very difficult to study other languages so I didn't imagine that I will be intrested in studying other languages, especially, English.

But first of all, we are Japanese so of course we have studied Japanese since I was a little child and until now in the university to be a Japanese teacher. To be honest, I didn't like Japanese classes until I entered to the KGU because Japanese is very difficult, isn't it? That's why I didn't like the Japanese classes and I liked the English classes in the junior high school. However, since I entered the KGU, I was intrested in Japanese. Japanese is intresting!, I felt. Then I desided to be a Japanese teacher.

Next is of course about English. I didn't realize that "I like English!" until I got a perfect score in the first exam of junior high school. I was studying English before I entered the junior high school but I didn't think I like English. I just wanted to study English to talk with my host family in Singapore. Then I got a perfect score and I realized. I really like English and want to learn more and more! Someday, I can talk with my family in Singapore very well, I was thinking like that and I studied really hard with very nice teacher.I also went to the extra English lesson at NOVA but as you know, there closed suddenly so I studied by myself at school. I came to the KGU of course to study English. I want to be a Japanese teacher in abroad so I have to study English very hard. I love English so I study :)

I also learned Korean. That's because, I got Korean friends when I was a junior high school student. I was listening to Korean songs and I liked the Korean singer. Then my cousin received two Korean boys for homestay. We became very good friends and they were like my brothers. Both of them could speak Japanese very well but I wanted to talk in Korean. I studied with my cousin and sister. I couldn't study Korean in junior high and high school so I took Korean in the university. Now I have another Korean friends and I want to talk with them in Korean.

However, I don't have friends who can speak Spanish. I was wondering which language should I take in the university. All 4 languages are difficult for me so I really think about that. Then I heared that Spanish is the 2nd language in the world so I desided to take Spanish. However, it was soooooo difficult for me and that tortured me very much. Teacher says it's not difficult and Spanish is very usual language, but I didn't think so. I couldn't remember words. I think that was because I couldn't like Spanish. I learned that if there is no reason or emotion of like, I can't remember anything. I should have studied Spanish more. I think about myself now.

As I wrote in the first paragraph, studying other languages are to meet and know another people in the world. Everytime I got foreign friends, I feel like I want to study the language that they speak. That's why I study languages. For Spanish, that was really sorry but I think I will meet someone who speaks Spanish someday. Maybe that time, I will study Spanish again. I love languages, especially English. I do my best to speak English and to be a good Japanese teacher!

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