The writing skill is proportional to speaking skill.

Mr Smith corrected a lot of my journals in the park almost every day. I always forgot to write articles before nouns. The prural system was also disgusiting for me. You know, in Japanese we don't really use the article and prural systems. So understanding these English rules is almost impossible for us.

1個のりんごがある
There is "an" "apple."

沢山のりんごがある
There are many appole"s"

...In both Japanese sentences, りんご(apple) is the same form.
But in English, they are different..."apple" and "apples."

"Oh...man...why do I have to put "s" when the noun is prural...the word "many" is already enough to express that this noun is prural..." I thought miserably.

He also told me that I had a big problem about "L", "R" and "th" sounds. Every time his Severe corrections made me sad and miserable. However, I gradually realized that writing skill is proportional to speaking skill. If we can't make a sentence in our head, of course we can't say it properly. Many Japanese English learners don't realize this important fact. We can't study English in the same way as American kids because our way of thinking already consist of JAPANESE. Therefore I strongly believed that what I was doing was definitely right way to master English.

John the principal of my language school said to me that "if You hire an English tutor, please ask them to correct as many English sentences as you can." So every day I asked Smith to correct my stupid journals after the language school. I copied these sentences with his corrections and read them 3 times loudly before I slept in my room. I then wrote new journals with as many new English words and expressions as I could.

There were many lazy Japanese students. I hardly spoke to them at the language school. I met a Japanese man named Seiji. As far as I could see, only he was studying English very hard. He told me that Lang8 was very useful.