10. English course

Well, to my surprise, I liked this course. I had taken this course just because I was lazy (I didn’t want to do the English oral exam again) and was kind of bothered to be a Thursday afternoon at the university, but as the classes began I spent a good time.

About the blogs, I think it was a good learning experience if it’s done seriously. You start to be used to write in English, and even learn new words and expressions because you need them to talk about what you want. The only downgrade of this method is that is easy to cheat, but that’s more like a moral problem than a problem of the system itself. Also, I would have liked to do more free-themed blog, because there were some thematic that I really didn’t know much about.

I think that the most important aspect to be improved in my English is pronunciation. I’m a really bad talker (in Spanish and English), so it’s kind of difficult to pronounce well in English. Also, I’m not very good learning new words; I have a really bad memory. This affects the fluidity of my speaking, because sometimes I don’t know what to answer or explain well certain things.  About what I would do to improve these things, I think I’m doing a few right now. I usually watch TV series with English subtitles (because I’m too impatient to wait for the Spanish releases) and when I find a word that I don’t know I search it. Also, I’m reading a book in English, so I kind of practice English that way. Regarding the pronouncing, the video talks of this course helped me a little, but it’s difficult anyway.

To end this entry, like I said before, I use English in a few activities: to watch TV series, to read a book, to play videogames and to learn from forums in English about different aspects. Also, from time to time I have to read papers in English for the university, and write abstracts of papers that I have to do for it too.

Well, I hope you liked this entry, good day to you all J