Studying English





         We know some good ways to study English outside class. There are many students that have their own style and different strategies to study. We want to share three of them that we learned by our experience with you. First of all, review your notes that you wrote in your class again after your reach home. For example, summarize and check the important points that you wrote during the class. Also, reviewing your notebook can help you to remember what your organized before, such as key points or important things that your professor taught you. In addition, you should learn English by reading and listening some interesting things which you like that have some relation to English. For instance, Read English magazines and newspapers every day in your free time to improve your understanding and vocabulary.Also,listening music or watching TV can help you improve your listening and speaking. Finally, you can make your own flashcards and take them to everywhere you go, or you can draw pictures on your flashcards. It will help you to remember the difficult words more easily, and you can write down the grammar that you are not familiar with yet. In conclusion, if you want to learn English well, you can follow the three ways that we shared above.

English

        My first experience learning English was exciting. Many people want to learn new language, but at the same time a lot of them have a kind of pressure. Most of the people that I know learned a new language because they parents want it, but I began to learn English because I want it and I like it for three reasons. First of all, I always tried to enjoy what I am doing. For example, while I was studying English it was very boring or tired, so I started to find a letters of the English music or movie and practice listening. Sometimes I studied by myself by see a interesting magazine and readed it. Second, learn English was very exciting to me because it was totally different with my fist language. For example, the shapes of the words, alphabet, were very different and strange to me, and also the English grammar had reverse order compare to korean. Finally, the pronunciation was the most exciting part to me becuase it was totally different a sound how i wrote or sometimes there was exactly same words, but it has different meaning of the words. It was a litte confusing  to me first, but I really surprised that there was many kinds of words in the world. In conclusion, I thing the most important point that I really could enjoy and it was very exciting to me to learn English is becuase I like it first and I enjoy during I studied.

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3 Questions

a) Why are you studying English? Explain with details.
 I am studying English for two reasons. First, because I think English is one of the most popular language in the world. In many countries we can find very easly a lot of peoples that can speak English, and also it is require language in anywhere. Second, I like learn and study different language and culture because I love to travel and meet different kinds of people. I think is very awesome too that I can understand and speak different language without translater. In conclusion I am studying English because English is very popular and require language in the world and I think learn new language is very helpfull and fun thing to me.

b) Do you use English very much when you're not in this class? Explain what situations you need to use it in.
 Honestly I do not use English very much, but I often try to use a lot English as many time that I can  if i have some situation that I need to speak in English. For example, in my Japanese class there are many people that can speak very well english, but I am very shy to talk with them because I am not very well in English as them. But sometime they asked me something or talked me, I usually answered them in very short words. I know if I really want to improve English I need to practice, talk and listen a lot it, so in this semester I tried more to not be shy and answered  them by more long words and clearly. In another case, I try to spend more time with my friends that can not speak my language, korean or spanish, because when I stay with them I can practice speaking and listening in English. Sometimes they taught me how to pronunciated some difficult words and it was really helpfull to me. Also I try to make a situation to speak in English such as
talk with my professor, repeat some hard words and read with the low voice a book.

c) How do you feel when you use English? Are you sometimes nervous, comfortable, or...? Explain. 
 I usually feel very shy when I speak in English. The reasons why I feel like that I think is because my vocabularies are  very poor yet and also the vocabularies that I know are very limitted when I speak with someone.  The another reason that I think is because while I am speaking in English, I often need to organize first in my mind; structure; and I need some time to translate some vocabularies. I think that I need more practice to thinking in English first and try to do not think in my language. Also when I speak in English I worry first for my pronunciation, so I feel very uncomfortable many times.