My Journey of Learning a New Foreign Language
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German!
PART 1
- Katrina Lee (SMART Mandarin Teacher Founder & Teacher )
Ni hao你好 / Hello / Guten Tag ! J
Today I’m writing this post to share my
experience of learning a new foreign language, which is the second foreign language
in my life – German.
Warning: This post is going to be very loooooooong,
and I will write different posts to talk about this huge topic, so be prepared
and be patient on reading my journey of learning the language！;)
Now let’s start!
Ok! So you mind be wondering, why do I want
to learn the second foreign language since I know how to speak English already?
Or why do I choose German among all the languages in the world?
Here are the answers!
Why do I decide to learn a new foreign
language?
The answer is very simple!
I love speaking different languages; I’m
always interested in learning many different new languages. I was actually growing
up with 3-4 different languages in my early age. My mom speaks Taiwanese, Hakka
and Mandarin. (Taiwanese and Hakka are the popular dialects in Taiwan) My dad
speaks Mandarin and Cantonese. I picked up Taiwanese, Hakka, and Mandarin since
I was young. But unfortunately, I didn’t pick up lots of Cantonese from my dad
since he’s too busy..or lazy to teach me. L ( I really wanted to learn, but my dad just doesn’t want to teach
me..so sad..)
My First
Foreign Language- English
At the age of 13, I started to learn
English in middle school, so English is the 4th language that I know
in my life. I’ve been speaking, learning English on and off until now. And I
can use this foreign language to communicate to people around the world. Now I’m using English most time in my life since I also use it at
work.
Well….I know my English is not perfect, but
I believe I’m good enough to handle
most of things in life and work that I need. So I’m pretty satisfied with my
English proficiency. Haha…))) (btw, I’m still learning English from time
to time. Just to make sure my English doesn’t get worse and also I like to learn)
So now…I’m at the stage where I think I’m ready to
learn a new foreign language, the 5th language in my life! Yeah!!!!!!
Actually, I used to learn French and Cantonese. It
was about 4 years ago that I decided to learn French, since it’s quite popular!
And I thought it might be cool to learn some French.
I
Tried to Learn French But I Failed…. :(
I hired a French tutor at the time, she’s a
Taiwanese, she’s very nice as a person. BUT!!!! She’s a TERRIBLE French teacher!!
L
She was teaching tooo fast in class, and she always
wanted to
play games in class!!
I LOVE practices in class but I HATE playing games in class!!!!
Especially when I told her, I have NOT totally
remembered all the sounds of French, it’s not a good idea to play any games
before I remember or I fully understand things she taught me. It’s better just
do more practices to make sure I fully understand. But she didn’t listen to me,
just do whatever she wanted.
The worst thing was…she told me : “You’re a good
language yourself, so you should learn FASTER in languages than other people!”
Do NOT put any of your students in any
stereotypes!!!
She really made me feel pressure learning French, and made me
feel stupid because I didn’t learn fast enough. L
You know the rest of my story…I gave up! I said 再見zàijiàn (goodbye) to this teacher.
Then I stop learning French. ( Tschüss....French……)
The
idea of learning a new languages has never stopped in my head, I just didn’t
know or haven’t really decided what’s my next language…..
WHY GERMAN LANGUAGE ?
-----------To
Be Continued----------
SMART Mandarin
Katrina Lee
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