At the very beginning
English has always been an easy language for me. From the
beginning, I have always been very motivated to learn it. When I was little, Ï
was lucky to have the chance to go to America and visit my relatives who live
there. I remember thinking that their language sounded nice and that I wanted
to learn it. As a kid I loved the cartoons that were on Cartoon Networks, the
cartoons were not translated, so that was also a motivation. Later English
become important because I wanted to learn to understand the lyrics in the
music that I listened and I also prefer to read some books in their original
language, because I think that the original writing is better.
I learned the base to my English skills in primary
school. I started to learn English when
I was in the third grade, and even before that, I already understood some
words. As I was in primary school, I began to read some novels that were easy
to read, and even if I didn’t understand all of the words, I was able to keep
up with the storyline. Reading books in English changed things, as my
vocabulary was getting wider, and I actually could understand what I was
reading.
Junior High
When I got to the junior high school, I had to work harder
to get good grades in English because it got harder and harder all the time,
especially writing. Luckily during the junior high school my teacher changed.
My new teacher was much more better, and her way to teach was much more
interesting and that is how my motivation to learn English came back.
At some point I started to watch some television shows and
movies without subtitles, and that really helped my English to develop. If I
didn’t understand some word, I would pause the show and look for the meaning of
the word in a dictionary, like I did with books.
Nowadays and future
Nowadays English has become a part of my everyday life. I
write, speak, listen it and hear it almost every day. When I’m watching
vlogs or tv-shows, when I’m listening to
some music, when I’m talking to my
foreign friends, when I’m reading books or blogs. It has made so many things
easier, for example travelling.
In the future I may want to become a English teacher, and I may want to move to a different
country, so English will be a big part of my future also.
Hi Saara,
VastaaPoistaI like how you motivated to learn english. Without motivation, you cannot succeed in doin anything. That's just how life works. After reading your blog. I can see that you have learnt quite a bit of english. You seem to be quite fluent at it. Just as fluent as anyone who's first language is english. After reading your blog, I can see that you have used english for a long time, and that it has developed. Hopefully, you become a english teacher like you want to become because you seem to be quite good at it.
Krishna
Hi Krishna, I couldn't agree more with you about that you need to have motivation to anything you want to do properly. In my opinion, motivation is the key to success :)
PoistaHi! My name is abishek and I am from Australia. I had a similar experience when I was in Los Angeles (my birth place). I was surrounded by English and I wanted to know the language that my parents were regularly speaking at home, (Hindi, and Tamil), I spent many years going through tv channels with these languages in them but not knowing what they meant. So I decided to learn on the internet. After a few years I was speaking even more fluently than my parents. So I can ver much perceive what you are trying to say. And I say great effort to that as you blogs do not represent any flaws as such, and like Krishna said you are typing like an individual who speaks English as their first language. I hope you continue to post and I look forward to finding out if you will become that english teacher one day.
VastaaPoistaHi Abishek! It's nice to hear that you can relate to this.
PoistaI have three mother tongues (finnish, azerbaijani and farsi) and actually, my parents speak Azerbaijani (language that they speak in Azerbaijan)with each other and when I was little, I didn't understand it, so I did everything to learn it. And now, I can speak and understand it. Tamil sounds cool, where do they speak it? Thank you for the comment!
Hi Saara!
VastaaPoistaI like your story. You should write a book.
I love your blogs background and style! I can notice that i relate to your story in some points. Good job! (:
VastaaPoistaDon't lie to me. I know you hate it.
PoistaThank you Tara!
PoistaYou have really found many different ways to improve your English over the years. It's good to be curious and patient to take the time to check the meanings of some new words. That is the only way to gradually start expanding the active vocabulary that you'd use yourself! Nice to know that there are still young people who want to become English teachers. I can assure you it is a very rewarding job.
VastaaPoistaHi Sara,
VastaaPoistaI think it's amazing that you've been able to push yourself to learn a second launguage. I really admire the motivation you have, and the sacrifice it must have taken to prioritize this in your life. I know firsthand how difficult this can be, as I moved from Colombia to the United States when I was a young girl. Even though language learning is easiest when statrted at a young age, I nonetheless can fully understand how difficult it can be.
I hope you come back to America sometime in the near future. I love to travel as well and hope to visit Europe over the next year. Traveling is such a great way to expand your horizons and really open up to new ideas and ways of thinking about the world and other languages. I wish you the best in your continued language learning, whether it be furthering your English or embarking in an entirely new linguistic direction.