My English learning journey(1) Unlike kids nowadays who may approach English in the kindergarten or even eariler, I started my English class in the 5th grade, just like my other peers. Countless students have learned "How are you?""I'm fine, thank you, and you?" at the beginning of English learning. It took me many years to realise native speakers don't speak that way. However, when I'm asked "how are you" some day by chance, I tried hard to think of a different answer but only I did was stand there. That was quite frustrating and I felt like a fool. I was an earnest student at school. But English seemed to be a whole different subject. I still remember back in high school, the days of which students work day and night for the colleage entrance exam, I often struggled to keep my eyes open at class. English classes bacame a safe time to take a nap, because you don't even feel it if you miss the instruction of test papers. It's like "Based on grammar xxx, C is obviously wrong" or "According to the article, B is the choice". There were many words I didn't know in the articles. It's either you know or you don't know, nothing to teach there. One day, I came across my English teacher at school, who then glanced at the recent midterm exam result and said:"Your grades of all the other subjects are good. What is wrong with your English?" My grade hovered at 65% of total score. Fortunately and surprisingly, I got more than 80% in the most important final exam (but at the same time the exact opposite thing happened to my math grade). How interesting is that!