My stories of studying English in secondary school

When I was junior high school student, I started to learn English.
I was looking forward to study English, because when I was elementary school student, some American came to my school and did English activity.
I joined in this activity.
So I was interested in foreign culture and wanted to talk with foreign people.
In junior high school class, we studied about basic grammer, word, how to write the Roman alphabet and so on.
I enjoyed studying, because there were a lot of things that I could learn.
So I studied English positively.
I was happy when I watched TV, I understand some English that appear on TV.
Some happy thing like that made me study harder.
But I was poor at writing some sentence written in Japanese in English.
Although I learn basic grammer, I didn't understand how to use that in sentence.
And then, I was poor at speaking and listening to English.
Yes. I was good at only read.
Now I think that I wanted to more practice to express myself in English.
A year passed since I began to study English.
I encounterd a girl who likes English by class changing.
We were good friend soon and talked about many thing.
She was good at all of part of English without talking.
So we practiced to talk in English together and I learned writing and listening from her.
Then I became liking that.
I think that I was lucky to encounter her.
The encounter with her gave my English skill good effect.
Like that I overcomed my week point of English through talking with her.
So I think English should be learned through communication each other not through studying on the desk alone.
If I become English teacher, I will make my student do a lot of group work and wish that they encounter a lot of good friend for them.