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Post 8 - English Language Challenges

Unlike when I was in my school period, in the university I began to understand better this language, although I still consider a hard work speaking fluently, but with the time I believe that I will improve this topic. I think that lately I improved my skills, at least according to my perception, because the english program at the university in the two last levels, the ones that I had to do, are oriented to practice in the daily interactions, like a conversation of different issues and explain about topics that we are interested in a blog.  Specifically the blogs, I consider that they are an important tool to develop the language because it forces us to express ourselves in a space which our generation is more habitual compared to writing an essay or the typical "letter to a friend", exercises that always I found quite false because they are not real scenarios in which we would use English, or at least for now. Regarding my career, journalism, I think that language manage...

Post 7 - Improving the learning experience

All my experience in the English learning is marked by the English program of my school, or saying better, by my teacher in the four years of secondary school. When the level of the develop of the English language doesn't was bat in this institution, this person in particular had archaic teaching methods, like use of the half class time to write a lot of grammatical rules on the board for after use the second half of the class to read the rules in high voice. This way to teach make that I linked for a time the English with a bored practice. Besides, the low  requirement to obligate me to use the language in real contexts, speaking and listening, generate that I don hadn’t  the habit to use the English and try it make me very nervous. I think that most of the people, or at least a lot of people that I know, have or has have the same problem that I had when I enter to the university. This is why I consider that the method of learning promoted with the English program, or perh...