Essay 1-03b: Language Learning Presentations

I'll show about my language skills, what kind of things I learned, and I am learning.



Do you have any advices for my language skills?
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Essays 1-03a: Personal Language Learning Stories & Plans

I was born nineteen years ago, and I had started learning English sixteen years ago at K school. At first, I only remembered alphabet and its pronunciation. I liked pronunciation and I could write own name in English at that time. I also learned English in kindergarten. We learned vocabulary and simple conversation like “My name is ~.” Then, when I entered elementary school, there were also English classes. There was only once a week, though, we learned from a native English speaker. I started learning English conversation when I was ten years old. I learned only English grammar in K school, so I couldn’t speak English till then. And my teacher told my English pronunciation is not good like “r” and “l.” I practiced tongue twister everyday. My teacher also said to me to take the exams. I took fifth grade English test certification when I was ten years old. I took third grade English test certification till I graduated elementary school. And I quit K school.

When I entered junior high school, there were many students who are good at English, so I motivated and I thought I must try hard to study English. Then I took pre-second grade English test certification when I was thirteen years old. English became my favorite subject. When I was third grade, I started interested in K-POP, so I studied Korean little. I could write Korean alphabet.

After a year, I entered high school. English was my favorite subject in high school, too. I took the TOEIC twice when I was third grade. I also took second grade English test certification.

And now, I’m English department student. We are taking English classes every day and we have a lot of English homework. We always do speaking, reading, listening, and writing homework. I feel it is hard sometime though, I think they are making my English skill better. Actually, the score of TOEIC when I took first year grew about 200 points compare with a year ago. TOEFL also grew 60 points in one year. I also learned Spanish in the first year. We became able to so self-introduction. My Korean skill also grew. I can simple conversation and I understand simple Korean, and I can read, too. I never study Korean grammar. I learned from lyric of K-POP and Korean TV programs. I can travel Korea alone now.

I want to go abroad to grow my speaking skill and I want to speak English as fluently as native English speakers in the future. The near future, I want to pre-first grade English test certification and want to grow my TOEIC score over 800 till I graduate university.

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Free-writing: My Language Skills

・Past: 10 years ago( &5 years ago)
Ten years ago, I was nine years old. I has started learning English when I was three years old at Kumon, so I studied the level of junior high school English at that time. But I couldn't speak English because I only learned grammar of English. In addition, I didn't like English and I wanted back home early, so I thought only about how I finished early. I always finished with no understanding. So I always solve questions with intuition, and my English skill was not good.
Five years ago, I was fourteen years old. In that time, I had started learning English conversation. And the teacher let me to take the English proficiency examination, I had Pre-Second grade. I could speak English but it was a little.

・Present: Now
I'm in English department now and I use English everyday because we have a lot of English homework. I think my English ability is getting better and I can make sure that from my grown scores of TOEIC and TOEFL exams. But I'm still not good at English conversation now. My knowledge about English words looks

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