This would be by far compared to any of my other classes be the class I experienced the most growth. When I started taking Chinese in eighth-grade, I was really terrible at it. Coming into ninth-grade I was really worried I would do poorly as well, and it started that way. I would do really well on class work and homework, but a quiz would always mess up my grade. For example, I failed my first vocabulary quiz in Chinese back in first quarter. I knew if I was going to fix this problem I had, I would have to work harder at it. Back in eighth-grade, I always thought back to my childhood when I failed to learn good Arabic and just made myself believe that I had a curse preventing me from ever being able to learn a foreign language. Now that I look back on it, that was not the problem at all, it was all my lack of effort. I used that monologue in my head to excuse my lack of effort and bad grades in Chinese. I knew I just could not do the same this year. I decided to put some work into finding a solution, and finally a solution found me instead. I found myself doing better when I was not reading or writing characters, it was when I was using them in games on quizlet. It was the competition to be the best at these games that drove me to master these characters. Not only did I improve game scores, but test and quiz scores improves tremendously. For example, I did not just pass my Lesson 2 Test, I aced it with flying colors and got bonus points to give me a score higher than a perfect one. From there it kept getting better. This growth is significant because not only did it help me to learn the best method for me to use to learn a foreign language, but also because Chinese will be very important in the future. The Chinese are big in the workforce right now, and being able to speak Chinese will help me be able to get a job. Chinese translators are needed more than are available, so this will prove to be most useful if I wish to get a job in this field. So, after all of the challenges in Chinese this year, I learned that a little competition is a good learning motivator.