Essay 2-02a: My language learning experience

I have studied three languages. Those are English, German and Japanese. I show those my language learning experience.


I have been studying English since junior high school. This is the first studying foreign language. First, I studied Roman letter. It was very easy. Second, I studied words. At last I studied grammar. That is studying now since my junior high school age. English has so many words because I study hard to memorize words. I think English is different completely from Japanese because I cannot understand now. I want to understand English someday.


I studied German at university. German is very difficult for me. German pronounces are very difficult. German pronounces are very unique. German has ‘umlaut’. ‘Umlaut’ can change pronounce. For example, there is the O in the sentence but putting ‘umlaut’ and O is changed pronounces. I did not have hardship for remember German’s words because German’s words similar to English’s words. And I could remember easily. I think German’s grammar is the most difficult grammar that I have ever studied. German’s grammar is changing that is used for first person, third person like those. That grammar is the same English’s grammar but it is difficult for me. I got hardship that understanding rule of changing. I do not want to study German again.


I have been studying Japanese since I was born. Japanese is my mother tongue but I have so many things to study. I think Japanese is the most difficult language in the world because Japanese has so many speaking styles and so many styles of letter. For example, term of respect, kana, kanji like those. Moreover, Japanese has classical Japanese. It is Japanese but it is different completely from using Japanese now. I think well that mother tongue is Japanese because I could not understand Japanese if my mother tongue is other languages.


I studied and I am studying three languages. If I can, I do not want to study three languages that I have studied and I am studying because those were very difficult for me. If I have to study languages, I want to other languages like French, Chinese and Korean like those. I think all languages are difficult but I want to know the new language if I could not master those.


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