I would like to contribute this piece to the Polyglot Project.
Primary school
I experienced my first failure when I was in my second class and I should have decided if I wanted to go to the language school or not. I did not know, but my parents wanted me to study there. There was something like an interview and each pupil should have said what he or she knew in any foreign languages. I don’t remember so much from the interview, but I do remember that I failed and that certainly influenced my life. Before that, I used to go to the class with a lot of friends and with my cousin; however they were successful in the interview so they went to study to the language school from a new school year. I have been told by my family members
many times that my cousin studied at language school and I studied only in normal school - I was an average pupil. He was better than me in everything, not only with school. I was always the worse one. My parents wanted me to have good results at school, so I really tried hard but it was difficult for me. I was always different from other pupils who seemed to enjoy their lives doing what they wanted much more than I did. In my 4th class, I had to pick a language which I wanted to study. I picked German, or maybe my parents did, but never mind. So I was studying German in my primary school from my 4th year there up to 9th year, so it was for 6 years. When I look back to evaluate my German knowledge in final year at primary school, it was not too bad. I was quite confident, because I had been studying hard. Unfortunately, I had too many teachers in such a short time – maybe four teachers for the six years, which was not so good, because we always started over again because each new teacher was not sure what we knew.
