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Some people would say that only children can learn second language easily.I don’t think so.The adults have many advantages than the children have.For example,adults have already known many concepts of the world,as they learn a new language,they just master some new labels of the world.And the children are different.They don’t have many ideas of the world.As they are mastering a new language,while they are learning some new concepts.I also believe that the adults’s ability of understanding the world is better than the children’s.Sometimes,the children learn faster than the adults,because there are some life things to prevent adults to learn,they can’t pay a lot of attention on learning.

I had formal started learn English when I was in junior high school.At school,our teacher always arrange some assignments for us to memorize English vocabularies,and analyze grammar in classroom.I always felt frustrated,because I couldn’t memorize English vocabularies,and also I didn’t understand any English grammar,It was just wired to me.So,I thought that at the time,English is very difficult subject,the people who learned English well must be genius.

But that was not the only experience of learn English in my childhood.When I was in primary school,I didn’t learn English formally,but some lower grade classes had already learned it.I thought that speak English is a cool thing,and just for fun,I went to listen a English class in the out the class.I learned some words like yes no,and count number like one two three four.I could speak them,and knew what do they mean,but I didn’t know how to write them.After I learned these few English words,I started to show them in front of my friends,and bragged that English is not that difficult to me.At the time,I learn them was just for fun,and didn’t have any purpose for test.

Since I went to junior high school and beginning to learn English formal anything was changed.Learn English was no longer a cool and funny thing.It was a most boring thing,and it became the most hate subject in school.At that time,our any learning was for test.And at that time,our test was less to speak,lot of grammar analyze,reading and writing.So the most important task was build a lot of vocabularies by memorize character form of words,and learn to analyze the English grammar.Less or not any chance to speak.

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