Essays 2-03a: Language learning histories

When I was a junior high school student, most of Japanese people started to study English when they were junior high school students , while I didn't study any of the subjects during the time of life. Fortunately, I had an opportunity to be interested in English, which was to communicate with ALT(Assistant Language Teacher ). I met three of the ALTs in the junior high school. The fast ALT was so strict during classes that I couldn't think that English was fun. The second teacher was almost the same as the first teacher. The final teacher was totally different from others,who came from Scottland and she was beautiful. I wanted to communicate with her. Unfortunately, a combination of my shyness and lack of my English ability made me not be able to talk to her. I was so irritated with myself. I had to graduate from the junior high school.

After graduating there, I worked at a supermarket for the almost all of  high school life. One day, I was working there as usual and feeling tired. I looked around and saw a beautiful woman, who was the ALT in the junior high school. I talked to her and she looked that she didn't remember me and was annoyed with my terrible English skill especially speaking skill. I was so shocked that she looked that,but I was happy to have been able to see her again.

Because I knew that I could see her some time at my work place, I was pushed to study English. I asked some of the English teacher in my high school. They were kind to me. One of them suggest me that I should use a English grammar textbook. I didn't understand the contents of the book fast time because I hadn't even known how to use be verb before I started to study English eagerly when I was second year hugh school student. The more I read the text book, the more interested in reading I was. After studying English for some months, I tried to talk to her and I could talk to her a little. It made me study English more.

Because she was an ALT of the junior high school, she had to go back to her country. When I noticed that, I was so shocked that I tried to write a letter to her. As a result, I didn't write a letter and even say good bye. Sometimes I look back the meory and the teacher. I want to see her if she is alive.

I have continued to study English for almost 4 years since 2008. I didn't know what was suitable for my English abilities and I studied English with a textbook explaining difficult examinations. Even now, it may be difficult for me to understand. I got information about EIKEN(an English examination which is a kind of famous examination in Japan and is often used for criteia of entrance of high school in Japan and forign countries) when I was third year student in high school. One of teachers told me to take EIKEN pre-2nd but I wanted to try higher level, EIKEN 2nd and I did. Unfortunately, I failed to pass it two times. I passed EIKEN pre-1st some weeks ago and I am studying English for EIKEN 1st now.

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