My name is ______. I am a Japanese-majoring third year of Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University. I once had studied Japanese at a Japanese School in Chiang Rai Province when I was around 14-15 years old. From that time, I always had been interested in Japan and Japanese. Although I had no chance to study Japanese in the high school, I had had a strong will to get into Thammasat University and to take part in Japanese Major. Because of my admiration of languages and linguistics, I found that Japanese, too, made me fun. I love to communicate with Japanese people either men or women, teacher or not. Also, I found that Japanese is very useful. For instance, I was able to be a Japanese teaching-assistant through summer vacation at Chiang Rai Language School and could earn money as a full-time job. Furthermore, at Universiade Bangkok 2007, I was a volunteer of the dormitory which all of Japanese athletes stayed; therefore, I had a chance to use my language skills there too. Nevertheless, my skills is still not very good, so it would be excellent if I could go to Japan to learn the real language with native speakers in the real situations and environment.
However, the most significant reason is not only gaining knowledge and experience for self, but I also could explain and tell them all to my students. Since I was a child, seeing mother taught English in the high school's classes made me would like to be a teacher. Now I am thinking of going to be a Japanese teacher, and to make me be an expert teacher, going abroad to Japan is extremely important.
I decided to choose Shizuoka University to take Japanese courses. Shizuoka University is situated far away from the capital and big cities, thus I could drink deep of peaceful atmosphere which is the best for studying. Shizuoka also has many attractions that would interest me and I could learn more about Japanese local culture and traditions
After this international experience, I believe that I could get many benefits. I would be able to speak Japanese fluently and would also understand their culture better. Moreover, this experience will be use for my educational purpose; enlarge students’ knowledge and encourage them to find out and get a chance (i.e. international scholarship) in Japanese world.
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My name is ______. I am a third-year undergraduate majoring in Japanese, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University. I once studied Japanese at a Japanese school in Chiang Rai when I was around 14-15 years old. From that time, I have always been interested in Japan and Japanese. Although I had no chance to study Japanese in high school, I strongly wanted to study at Thammasat University and to enroll in Japanese Major. Because of my love of languages and linguistics, I found that Japanese enjoyed me as well. I love to communicate with Japanese people, no matter who they are. Also, I found that Japanese was very useful. For instance, I was able to be a Japanese teaching-assistant during my summer vacation at Chiang Rai Language School and could earn money as full-time job.(???) Furthermore, at Universiade Bangkok 2007, I was a volunteer working at the dormitory where all of the Japanese athletes stayed; therefore, I had a chance to use my language skills there too. Nevertheless, my skill is still not very good, so it would be excellent if I could go to Japan to learn the language with native speakers in real-life situations and environment.