I began to learn English when I was in kindergarten, which was an optional interest class. The teacher let us slowly learn letters and numbers through games and songs, those interesting content made me very interested in English at the beginning. Then I officially started my English class in primary school. As a visual learner, the bright colors and interesting illustrations in primary school textbooks make me very active in learning English. Most of the time, my teacher would play English cartoons for us. I would watch them so intently that I even bought some to watch at home.
However, with the growth of the grade, the content of English class has changed. With fewer and fewer pictures in the book, in order to learn grammar and sentence patterns, the teacher asked us to recite long paragraphs of the text. It was very boring and difficult for me, the sentences were very long and I could hardly memorize them, and the grammatical structure was confusing. In addition, memorizing words changed from looking at pictures to looking at a list. I could only read English and corresponding Chinese explanations. Later, I tried to turn the characters and stories in the article into three-dimensional objects in my mind, and turn the article into a film in my mind. After a few classes, I found this method really useful. By high school, my English level was already very good. I started watching a lot of TV series, “Friends” is one of my favorite. Through watching various kinds of shows and TV dramas, I have learned a lot of practical short and expression ways, which cannot be learned in class.
When I was a freshman, I took a German class. At the beginning, the teacher only used German to communicate in class, which confused me a lot. For many times, I could not understand what activities to do. However, with the increase of vocabulary, I found that this kind of grammar is more useful than just reading textbooks. Video in the homework is mostly local interviews. Although it needs to be listened to many times, I think it is more conducive to language learning than listening to pure accent. After all, I will not only communicate with announcers in the future, right?
I think I should focus more on speaking in my future language learning. A lot of times I'm afraid of speaking the wrong language or pronunciation, but after some frustration, I found that speaking can help a lot on improve communication skills, I just need more courage.
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