If I go back to the very start, my first exposure to English came from the internet, specifically YouTube videos. While I was in kindergarten, I used to watch YouTube videos on my mother's phone, and I occasionally came across an English-speaking channel on my feed. One day, while I was searching for videos to watch, I found a video that had pictures of planes as the thumbnail. Well, back then, I was really crazy about planes. I liked the way they looked, I liked the way they sounded, and of course, I liked the way they fly. So because of that, I clicked on the video to watch the planes, and it turned out the video is in English, and sadly, at that time, I didn't know anything about English. I thought the sounds that the person in the video was saying were weird, and I couldn't understand a single thing that the person said. But I kept watching just because there were many images and animations of planes in the video, and kept trying to understand little by little about what the person was saying.
A few years passed, and while I was in elementary school, I started to learn more and more about English, since it was one of the school subjects. From first grade to sixth grade, I learned more things about English and got to know the language better, and during that time, I also watched more and more YouTube videos that are in English. After that, I started to understand English better, and I understood what those people were saying in the videos, but I wasn't that good at listening yet, so I used subtitles to understand them. While I was in junior high school, I started to take English more seriously. I made friends with people who already knew English well, and I practiced speaking by hanging out and talking with them in English. I started to read books that are in English, watch foreign movies, and listen to English songs to better understand the English language. I continued this behavior about learning English well till high school, and came to a realisation that even though I became more fluent in English to the point that I can use the language every day casually, there are way more things to learn.
Before I knew it, the language that I thought sounded weird and I couldn't understand became a big part of me, and in the end, it became my passion. If there's something in my life that I can never regret, it is certainly learning English.
