To learn a language, to know the need is the first step

I believe that the desiration to learn a language, or to know the need is the start, the key, to learn a language.

I have been learning English for over ten years since I was an elementary school kid.
My English was bad, and I did not understand why I should learn that.
At that time, English just merely an academic subject for me.
By the way, English was my hatest subject at that time because I always got bad scores.

In 2012, I came to Vietnam, my horizon was broadened. I started to feel that I really need to learn English.
What happened to me and led me wanted to learn Enligh?
What caused me start to fall in love with English? (I once hated English)
The story is like that:
My parents work in Ho chi Minh city. so I always visit them during vacations.
Although Vietnamese do not speak in Mandarin and I had many chances to practice my English, I just kept staying at home and watching japanese cartoons.

In 2012,
At that time I just graduated from senior high. I had three months of vacation.
As a result, I came to Vietnam again, alone and bravely, and went away from my Taiwanese friends.

After I arrived Ho Chi Minh city, I met a Korean girl and a Canadian girl through a church here.

When I was in Taiwan, everyone around me did not speak in English.
So I  had no need to learn English.
As I said earlier, I met the korean girl and the canadian girl. I want them to be my friends.
I also still need some friends here in Vietnam.

However, during those three months, whenever we three girls met together, they all could speak English so well and chat so happily.
Words were just stock in my mouths continuely and could not come out.

I wanted to chat with them and often hang out with them together.
But my English ability limited me.
I also was shy and felt shame to speak in English because I am afraid of making false.

Three months were a long period. Do anybody know the feeling you want to talk something but you do not know how to say it? Nobody knew that the desiraiton to learn English is growing in me gradually because that kind of feeling kept bothering me over three months.

I believe that the desiration to learn a language, or to say to know the need of language is the start, the key to learn a language. From this experience, I started to study English hard.

English is not merely a subject to me after that. It has become my tool and way to meet forign friends!