Bonjour!! My new life!!

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About 1 week has passed since our classes began. During this week, I have learned a lot of things such as Linguistics or American West and I could find new things especially in French class. Although I had taken French class at MWU, I was so excited to take a class in English!! I was worried about it, but it’s so cool!! Through the French class, I could find new perspective such as Japanese educational system today, and my recommendations for how language should be taught in Japan. This new learning style gave me many things would expand my way of thinking about leaning languages. The first day, I was surprised at Jill had already spoken only French at the beginning of the class. I was a little confused, but I could get used to it. As Jill said, listening and imitating the words or phrases like children is the most effective way to learn a language. Because we did that, we can speak our own Language now! However, I thought the most effective way to learn English was to write and remember the sentences or vocabulary at my desk. I couldn’t remember anything and I was irritated with myself so couldn’t study English effectively. I think it’s because of the way we learn to English in school in Japan. I’ve heard the way to study English in school has not changed since Meiji times. In addition, the way is for not to learn English totally because people in the Japanese government wanted us to remain more Japanese, or they were afraid of losing Japanese as we study English. It’s very interesting for me, but we need to change the way actually. That’s why most Japanese leaners doubt that just listening and imitating are the best way to learn Language because our traditional style of learning English has been in Japanese brains since the Meiji times . Therefore I could make sure that my best way to learn English is like in Jill’s French class. I would like to do that very hard and expand my global view.