Essay 2-02a: Why do I study English????????????

Why do you study languages? To get a good job? Or, to live abroad? In my case, I study English just to have a conversation with more people. I like to talk with people very much. So I do like to learn any languages, even I don’t like him.

I’ve started to study English when I was a 7 year student. In Japan, teachers teach students English to pass the high school examination, not to exchange with foreigners. I studied just to pass higher level high school. So I don’t remember whether I had talked with foreigners, or not when I was a junior high school student.

At high school, every teacher taught me everything to pass the university. I didn’t like it. The teachers teaching English are also. So I didn’t like English. I didn’t know why I learned the language except Japanese. But, the teacher of music, he was only not. He taught us music just to enjoy music. He showed music with his singing actually. I didn’t know whether he could sing well or not. Perhaps, he wasn’t good at singing, but he sang. And I thought “Yes! Let’s enjoy English like music!!” I took the exam of Kumamoto University, but I couldn’t pass it. I couldn’t enter higher university. But I don’t regret.

In Kumamoto Gakuen University, teachers have interesting classes. I don’t like home works, but I can enjoy English. I can talk with not Japanese teacher and exchange students. Thanks to KGU, I could be friends with English, American, Thai, Chinese, Indonesian, Canadian, Korean, and Australian and so on.

And now, I want to be a musician. I think English is useful in my future. English would expand my view, so I will study a lot of thing related music. Also, I want to compose songs and lyrics in English all. My dream will need everything that I’m studying now. Perhaps Spanish which I learned when I was a 1 year may be useful in my future.

Maybe my English is not good, and I can’t get high score if I take the test of SLEP, TOFLE and TOIEC. But I don’t care. I study English just to enjoy English. Like music.

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