My name is Rara Fujimaki. I'm born in Japan and I live in Thailand now. I'm staing in Japan during summer break. I finished 8 grade, so I'll move up to 9 grade next year.
I go to International School of Bangkok (ISB) I went to Bangkok on last December, so actually I don't live there very long. But this isn't the first time I went to international school. I was in India for 3 years from kindergarden to 2 grade. I was in American Emmbacy School (AES) for 1 and 2 grade. I think I have standard level of English, but I just started to speak english for 6 months ago and I didn't speak English for long time (about 8 years!) My parents told me I spoken English very well when I was in India, but now on, I don't remember so much. In thailand, I'm in ESL class.
I came to this summer school to engage my self. I want to skill up my English. During June, I went to ASIJ's summer school, too. I have 2 months for summer break, but half of them will disapear for summer school. That's really bad for me. Because I want to play with my Japanese friends. But I want to study more english, so I'll push my self. I hope I have fum in this summer school.
My strong point of English is listening. I can understand what the native speakers are saying even I don't know the words. I was really suprised that my ears are still working if I don't speak for 7 years. When I took the listening test in my school, I got 99% correct. I'm very proud about that. That's my storngest point, but most of the time I don't exactly understand the each of words the people are saying, so I should study more vocabulary.
My weak point is speaking. I'm really bad to do presentation and communicate. I'm not really good at speaking with someone who I met first time. Like this summer school. I couldn't speak it so much. I always try to talk with someone. but I feel very nervous and finally I don't talk. Any short program like this summer school, I always be friends with others almost last few days. When the program ends, I always feel Why didn't I talk to them more early? If I talk to them like the first day the program, I think we could hang out more. I always feel like that. I want to stop that in this summer school. At presentation, my voice will get really really small. Curttenly, I had some presentation in ISB and my voice got nice and clear than I was in Japan. But I think it's still not enough. In this summer school, it seemed to do a presentation. So I think I could speak more strongly and more effectivly. If I could, I'll include some bodylanguages, too.
That's too badX< But it'll be helpful.
ReplyDeleteAND AWSOME. You're good at speaking too! I want to be good at listening&speaking..
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ReplyDeleteYou do seem to have strong listening skills (and your speaking skills are better than you think). I think it is because you began so young. Even if you did not use English for some time, having learned young you have a great advantage over people like me who learned language much later (French from 11y, and Japanese from 22y). Also because you began young, you have almost no Japanese accent in English, and accent is hard for late language learners like me to be rid of. Lucky girl!