Restart of my life

This post is intended for future me to remember what I thought while in my university life.

Now, I'm a fourth year student of KGU majoring in English. The reason why the title of this post begins with 'restart' is because today I decided to post a blog on a regular basis as I did in the past in a writing class as the main assignment when I was a sophomore.

Writing English is an interesting part of English learning,but I often face much difficulty improving my writing skill. In older to enjoy writing and get my writing better,I will post an article regularly.

Today, I want to write this year's summary. Because it is already 27th December today, the end of this year is approaching. I experienced many things this year.

In January, I had been learning English for an English exam since Novmber in 2012 ,which is known for one of the highest level of English exams in Japan.
At that time, I just tried to concentrate on improving English. This experience changed my idea about English learning.

My 'real' English learning started when I was 17, sophomore in high school even though usually Japanese people start to study English when they join junior high school. Just in case, I put an emphasis on the time when my English learning started so that I can explain my experience easily.

Once I started to learn English, there were many problems that I didn't understand smoothly. However, I really enjoyed learning English. While reading a book, I listened to my favorite music. When I tried to improve my speaking and listening, I watched movies like Forrst Gump, UP and so on.

After some time, one of my teachers talked about an English exam,TOEIC that is the most common English exam in Japan, taken by over 1 million people a year.
Also he taught me how to study English for the exam. His advice changed my English learning style. From the next day after I got advice from the teacher,
I bought some textbooks and use only them to improve my English.This style of English learning had lasted  for 6 years until I found out my first learning style is best.

In the next post, I will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of English learning only using textbooks showing my experience.