My experience in learning English

English was not my favorite subject when the first time I was introduced by my English teacher. I was not interested in learning English at all. I seldom studied. I never did the assignment from my teacher instead of my friend did. When my teacher suggested me learning English, I just nodded my head then skipped it. I thought that English was not important to learn because I had already had language. It was so hard for me to understand. There were so many roles in learning it. It was really complicated. But now I am really interested in learning it. Almost all my time I spend learning English. When I was at junior high school, my English was really poor. I did not know a single word instead of ‘rain’. It was because my English teacher’s favorite word. When he did not attend the class, he always said ‘Sorry, I could not attend the class last week because it was raining cat and dog’. Besides the teacher seldom came, the English subject was really confusing as well. I realized that I should not always rely on my teacher’s explanation but I was an English beginner. Of course I needed much guidance from my teacher. The teacher also needed to pay much attention to his students moreover the stupid student like me.

My difficulty in understanding English affected my desire to learn it. I spent much time sitting down just studying English but it seemed to be useless. It just made me frustrated. It became more and more boring subject. To make it worse, my problem in English continued until I was at senior high school. A year, two years, three years I tried to solve my English problem at senior high school but it could not be solved. It was likely to be same. English was never easy to learn. My English teacher was sometimes angry with me. He tried hard to make me understand but I could not. He wanted me to like studying English but my desire to study English was gone. He asked me to memorize and to do the tasks but I did not. When he was teaching, I just sit on my seat pretending to pay attention to him but actually I did not. I sometimes slept. My teacher often woke me up and said ‘Man, do you still want to study or I force you to get out’.
My English teacher at senior high school was really kind. He never stopped suggesting me learning English and teaching me with various methods until my failure in national examination. The mockery came into my face. ‘Stupid’ that lovely word was always heard in my ears. However, I really thanked to people who said so. It did not make me down. It was really helpful. It encouraged me to learn English. I was really motivated to prove that I was not what they mentioned. My interest to learn English is more and more. My English books are more and more. My English ability was increasing until I could speak to native speakers with little English that I had.
After I knew I did not pass the exam, I directly went to English course. My first English course was at Sungai Durian. Mr. Dedi Miss. Indria taught me English. Then I continued studying in east Java, exactly Kediri-Pare. During my studied at English courses, I thought that almost all my English courses there focused on grammar more than other skills. At VEC Sungai Durian I was introduced with Part of Speech that was known as PANCA VIP. It stands for Pronoun, Adjective, Noun, Conjunction, Adverb, Verb, Interjection, and Preposition. After I knew those words, they taught me tenses and then continued to other English structures else. I liked so much because I thought I did not get those at school. It made me more and more interested in learning English until I went to Java.
In Java, exactly at my English courses there-RHIMA and BEC, it was the same. The teacher focused for the first time on how the students could produce correct sentences before they used them to speak with others. It was incredible the old method could make me be able to understand English and it could attract me to learn it. For some people might say that it was not good teaching our students for the first time with grammar. They would be difficult to understand and they would think that the English was so confusing. However, I did not feel so. Grammar gave me description that English was not so confusing to learn. I think it depends on the students themselves. It was really fantastic for me even it was so difficult for some others to understand. After 10 months I had studied there, I could use my little ability in English to speak with the native speakers at Borobudur. It made me more and more interested in learning English. And the result, now English is not as big problem as it was.

What I can learn from my experience in learning English above are:
1.My first English teacher at junior high school seldom attended the class
that made the students accustomed not to study.
2.Lack of interest to learn English that made it hard to understand
3.The methods that the English teachers used were still not good
4.The first failure is
5.If we want, everything will be possible to get
6.And the most important word that if we want to get is never saying die. It
means never do you give up.

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