My English Language Learning Journey

    The first time I got to know about English was during Primary 3. This is because I come from China and the government only introduced English to upper primary students back then. I had quite a positive experience when I just started learning English. The grade was not counted for graduation so I started learning English without any stress on the academic results. I was just curious about English and wanted to know more about it. I had fun trying to use the newly learnt vocabularies to communicate with friends. Although sometimes we might use it wrongly and created jokes, I still learnt and improved through the mistakes.

    When I went to Secondary School in China, which was during the beginning of 21^st century. Due to globalization, the China government had paid more attention to the importance of English. That’s when English is treated just like other subjects such as Chinese and Mathematics. We had proper English lessons and tests where grade became a concern to us. I was lucky to have a really nice English teacher, Miss Lin in my secondary life. She was only 24 years old back then but she already obtained Test for English Major Brand 8. (Some certificate issued in China for English language). She is knowledgeable and friendly. She treated us more like her younger friends rather than her students. She was always able to make the class so interesting to capture my attention. I would say, without her, I might dislike the English lesson just like a lot of other students in other school did. Without her, I might not even dare to come overseas to study in this English based education system.