Essay: 2-02a My language learning experience

This time, I'm going to tell you about my language learning experience. I'm English major, so I have many times to learn languages more than before. I have studied English, Spanish and Japanese. Japanese is my mother tongue. It's nature for us to speak and write, but we study many kinds of Japanese at school since elementary school. I have studied English since junior high school and studied Spanish for one years. These are my language learning experience history.

I have studied English since elementary school. When I was a elementary school student, ALT sometimes came our school. We learned alphabet, a little conversation and number. I learned fundamental English at junior high school. For example, grammar, reading and writing. Then I also studied English for three years at high school. I studied English to exam university. I'm not good at English grammar, so I took times to studied grammar. Now I'm English major. I have studied English for over eight years. Even though, I can't speak English, it's so hard for me. I know speaking and writing is another way. If I want to speak English, I have to speak English with foreigner.

I took Spanish class for one year at KGU. Spanish is similar to English. For example, word order is almost same. In addition, the way of reading is Latin alphabets. Of course it's difficult. There are many rules. For example, accent, word form, and more things. Especially, word form was the most difficult rule for me. Spanish has male and female noun and change word forms. I didn't know what was these noun and the word forms. I often made mistake. But I could study Spanish because I could understand the word order.

I have learned Japanese for twelve years. I think Chinese character is the most difficult thing in Japanese language. I don't know how many Chinese characters in the world. Maybe we can't remember all of it. I think classical Japanese is also difficult. For example, 'yagate' means later, but it means soon in classical Japanese. Many words meanings are very different from nowadays Japanese. The grammar is also very different, and I didn't like classical Japanese. So I studied it very hard when I was a high school student. Gradually, I could understand classical Japanese.

As you can see, I have learned three languages. There are many my language learning experiences's histoery. There are important things. It is developed my English skills and Japanese. To study many language, I want to develop my English and Japanese skills.
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