Essay About Learning A New Language

Have you ever tried to learn a different language? The reason I ask this is because I have. I was in a classroom setting and there were several kids around me. We would all be learning the same thing, a new language. Personally it was my first time trying to learn a new language, which would be French. French was the language class that I decided to take. Most students my age decided to take chose Spanish, since we lived in New Mexico. I chose French instead because my brother had taken the class, and I had always wanted to learn French because it seemed like such an interesting language. Being my first year in high school, I was a freshman. It was my first day of school, and my seventh class of the day. I was just in a normal high school setting,

My outlook on what I was learning had changed. Language was so much more difficult than I had made it out to be. I had to start from the basics and work my way up. Of course hearing the language helped, just like it did when I was a child learning my first language.. I had to practice, which made it quite different. It was a lot harder, but it made me more excited to learn this new language. I had the opportunity to have a class that I did not have to pay for and learn what I was learning. I no longer thought about learning a language as an obligation.

The teacher started off simple teaching us the basics.. We learned how to say the alphabet, and we also learned to count. as the year went along we learned more numbers. I thought the numbers were simple to learn, especially after you learned to count to ten. The alphabet was a bit harder. Learning how this language differed from mine was so exciting. I was not an expert in my language, that I personally learned to speak, when I was learning French. No one is really, but it felt like if I was it would have been easier to learn French if I had been. I was still learning something new in my language everyday, so trying to learn a new language was difficult. In French they may not have a word for a word we have in English. They also may place a word in front a word that we would normally place after. It was different, and