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        Since elementary school, I always learned English as my first foreign language. I never expect learning other languages in my life time. When I first thought of learning second foreign language was because of my classmates. Some of my classmates enjoy watching Japanese animations and thus they learned Japanese to understand those animations more. Also, when I went to bookstores, I saw many books about learning Japanese. I gradually thought of learning second foreign language as many other people did, but I did not buy a book and learn any foreign languages.         After entering senior high school, I began to listen to k-pop. For a long period of time, the way I listened to the music was to find Chinese translation and hummed the melody of the songs because I did not understand any Korean. When I could gradually tell some members of some groups, I found it hard to memorize their names when watching some vid...

        As described in the first blog, I learned English at a cram school which made me be interested in English and finally had the goal to become an English teacher. The way the teacher taught and we learn could be divided into two main kinds. One was game-and-activity oriented, which was more impressive for me, the other was grammar-oriented that greeted the needs of the students to take tests at school. Both were quite useful for me to learn English when I was still an elementary school student and junior high school student.         Game-and-activity oriented way was one of the teacher’s most symbolic teaching style. During the class, she would use different toys to show the contents taught that day. For example, she bought a set of automatic toys like toy trains to show adverbs like “He goes up the stairs” and “He goes down the stairs”. When teaching how to express time in English, she bought toy clocks and t...

     In my journey of foreign language learning, the first language I learned was English. I first got to know the existence of English in the stage of kindergarten. There were three teachers teaching English in turn, and all of them spoke no Mandarin to the kids during the class. It was my first stage learning English. After entering elementary school, I went to an English cram school to learn English, and I left there after graduating from junior high school. The teacher of the cram school taught us in various of interesting way in first three years, including games, learning sheets, and outdoor activities, not just teaching the students in traditional English textbook as the school did. After we became fourth grader students, courses taught in junior high school were add to us. Later on, I began to learn courses as the senior high students did when I became a junior high school student. That is to say, I had been learning ahead comparing to other classmates at s...