When I was a middle school student, I went to the English institute for studying English conversation, and I met an English native teacher for the first time. Unlike these days, there were not many foreigners in Korea at that time. Having a conversation with foreigners seemed an adventure to me. I still remember my first native teacher vividly. She was tall and had a nice figure with her blonde hair. To a young boy like me, she was just so beautiful, and it was so interesting that the beautiful foreigner spoke some foreign language. However, after a while, no matter how beautiful she was, my interest to speak English was disappearing. It wasn’t fun anymore, because whatever she said I couldn’t understand at all. I just couldn’t understand her pronunciation and accent. It was totally different with other Korean teachers who taught English at school. Because I understood less and less, I spoke less and less. In spite of her trying to understand me and help me to speak English, I started to doze off after all. When my interest to speak English was almost gone, I began to think like this, “Is it really necessary for me to learn English in this way? I won’t go abroad and have a test for English conversation at school.” After that, I moved to the other institute for studying some subjects of the entrance examinations. That was the end of my first English conversation lesson. It was fun, but I hadn’t enough basic knowledge about English to keep studying it.

        After time passed, I entered the university and chose English for my major. As a result of my major, I took many classes to study with native teachers. But the problem was I barely spoke English, so I started to keep silent again in the classroom. Most of my classmates felt it was difficult to listen and speak in English, but there were always some students who had a great conversation with a teacher. I really envied them and wanted to be like them, too. One day, therefore, when the class began, I decided to talk about something to the native teacher after class, but I failed after all to talk. I was too timid to say something. I guess I didn’t have enough confidence. Now I’m doing much better, but I still sometimes feel nervous to talk to native teachers. I’ve studied English since I was in middle school, nonetheless I’m not good at speaking and listening in English.

I guess, however, the attraction of learning English is that the harder I study, the more fun I have.

(This writing is the assignment from other class. But I put lots of efforts on this, and I think this is quite well done. This one is I translated other studdent’s writing in Korean to English. So, I’d like to share it with you guys. )