My English Experience
My full name is Erwin Udding, but my
friend usually call me Erwin. I live in Indonesia and Indonesian is my native
language. I am a student at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar, the fifth
semester of English Department Education specifically. I learned English very
well and now I want to share my English learning experience with other people.
I had my first contact with English
when I was twelve years old. My English teacher in Junior High School was the
first one who introduced me about English. I just already interested in English
at that first time I learned it. I still remember the first material that my
English teacher taught me. He taught me an alphabet, how to pronounce it in
English because it has a different pronounce with Indonesian alphabet. My
teacher taught the alphabet in singing. So, I could easier to understand and
remember the way to pronounce it. Even I still remember how to sing that song
but unfortunately I could not sing it here. Hehehe…
As far as my understanding, the next
step that my teacher taught me after mastered the alphabet, He asked me to
spell my name by use English pronunciations. At the first time in pronouncing
English letter, my tongue got slip and felt strange in my mouth. But, time was
running, then my tongue adapted in English pronunciation well. At that moment,
I felt that I just fall in love in English.
When I was Junior High School, I
learned many basic level of English material and I really enjoyed it. English
is the first subject that I wanted to learn and I was very enthusiast in learning
English. I was bored in some subject but not in English. I always enjoyed the
English class, whatever the material that my English teacher taught. Then,
talked about my English mark, it was not far for what I expected in and I ended
my Junior High School especially in English subject with satisfaction result.
Then, when I was Senior High School,
my interested in English still same than before. I wonder what material that
would be learn in English subject. Later I got an English book and start to
comprehend that book before got into the class. So, I asked my teacher anything
that I didn’t understand in the English book and I try to discuss the material
after the class ended. I had my first contact with English Grammar in senior
high school.
The first time I learned grammar, I
got a little bit confused as the English learner commonly. But I tried to
understand and comprehend it clearly by did a repetition and analyzed the
material and did some exercise until I understand it well. Grammar had been a
confusing material, but I had eager to master it. I prefer grammar than the
other material because I thought that it was challenging. Although it was ruin
my speaking. I only focus in learning grammar and ignore to make my speaking
better.
I had my first hand phone when I was
senior high school. I fill in my phone with some English music and tried to
understand the meaning of an English song. I remembered with my English teacher
told me, He said that I could make my listening better and my speaking more
fluent by listening and singing an English song. I really like the songs of
Westlife. He inspired me with all of his songs. ‘I Have a Dream’ is the title
of his song that I prefer to listen. Except, ‘Soledad’, ‘More than Words’,
‘Season in the Sun’, and much more. I really loved it. I listened to them every
day. In the beginning I could understand nothing of what they were singing. But
soon I started to understand individual words, especially the ones which
appeared in the titles.
Later I got as gift from my close
friend in my birthday with the words of all the songs. She knew that I really
love Westlife. That is why she gave me that book. I read the book many times. I
leaned many songs many times. I sang the songs to myself. Still, I understood
very little of the meaning. It became my dream to learn English so well that I
could understand Westlife. So westlife was being one of my motivation. That is
how I started my way toward English speaking and listening.
Today, I can understand westlife very
clearly. Each time I hear a westlife song. I am delighted and proud because I
have made my childhood dream come true. I also listen to many pop music, all in
English, and I listen every day, sometimes for over five hours a day. I am
constantly aware of my success with English because I can understand the lyrics
of the songs I listen to. And that gives me pleasure and satisfaction for many
hours every day.
When I was 17 years old, I started a
novel books. I read in Indonesian. The book were all American which is composed
by J.K. Rowling. I could not read the original version because did not know
English so well. As I read in Indonesian, I was more and more eager to read the
books in English. Somehow, I felt that in English the books will be even more
interesting and reading will be more exciting. I finally decided that I wanted
to read books in English. This decision guided me for many years.
I learned every new English word that
I met. With each new word I felt closer to my goal. With each word I felt that
my reading ability was increasing. Each word to my sense of power. At some
point I read my first whole book in English and I understood it. That moment
was a breakthrough in my life. I knew that I had broken a barrier gotten into a
new word. I found that reading is much more exciting in English. When I read it
in English, I have not only the pleasure in reading but also the pleasure of
using English and the pleasure of learning English. For the last four years I
have read book almost only in English with very few exception. Of course, it
was not including the subject outside of English.
I have read many novels and education
literature books in English. Some of them are still not available in
Indonesian. My knowledge of English allowed me in touch with the current state
of evolutionary theory education literature. Without English I would not have
read the books because there are no Indonesian translation of them. When I
learn English well enough to read education literature books I discovered that
English is a very important tool for learning anything.
English has given me so much
satisfaction and pleasure and I found it so useful in educational pursuit that
I decided to share my method and my experience to other people. On antimoon, I
try to help people to learn English with pleasure I know that it is possible to
derive satisfaction from the process of learning English and I want to share it
with others.
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