introduction

 Introduction 

This is my first posting on this blog, I am Najmiatul fauza, English Department student of Ar-Raniry islamic University. I came from one district called Indrapuri which is located in Great Aceh( Aceh Besar), I am twenty years old now.  The bacground of studying Languages especially English:

 Learning English started when I was in Fifth Grade of Elementary School. At that time English language subject was the “muatan lokal”subject, so the teacher only taught the basic aspect of English language such as vocabularies and  simple sentences. That was because I came from a village, the majority of people there worked as farmers, so they didn’t really care about education especially English. However,  I liked English since first time I studied it. Two years later, after graduating from elementary school I continued my study to Oemar Diyan Islamic Boarding School. This place changed  my life 180°.  I had to live far from my family, washing my clothes by my self, cleaning the room and I had to queue everywhere. Oemar Diyan had a lot of rules especially in language. They allowed me to speak Indonesian Language only in my first Three months, if I broke that rule I would have been punished. Actually, I thought I couldn’t stay there for long time because I was not good In Arabic and English, but my parent supported me everytime, because  I didn’t want to dissapoint them, so I said to my self that you have to hold on for your parent. In that three months I pushed my self to learn both two languages that were Arabic and English. I brought dictionary and notes to everywhere I went such as : kitchen, bathroom, mushalla, canteen, classroom. I tried to practice those vocabularies in my daily activities. Alhamdulillah, because of study hard and daily practicing, I could speak two languages in three months. After that my life in that boarding school became a happy one. I could improve my language every day because there was  no one who spoke Acehness or Indonesian language. Every morning I got two new vocabularies from language department, from those vocabularies I had to make four sentences. It helped me much in improving my language also I always kept practicing and practicing English.

From my experiences in learning languages, I want to share that dont worry if you are not  really good at something but you can make it good by studying hard, practicing to use it. coming The key for learning languages are practicing. Mastering a  dozen vocabularies doesn’t work if you dont use it in your daily life.