Post 8: English Language Challenges

Well, yet I am in my second year of university, but this was my very first English course at university. I have to admit that before starting the classes I was nervous because during school I was a good English student, but never the best, so, I had no idea of how it would be taking English classes at university. Lucky for me, I realized very quickly that I was at the ideal level of English for me because during classes I felt that it was not so hard, but not so easy either, it was a nice ambient to improve my English level but not dying in the meantime.

About the blogs, I would say that they were an interesting space to learn English, during school in most of my classes we had to do dialogues, and I know that talk to another person is a good way of learning, but blogs are a good way too, I mean, to talk a language is not enough if you are thinking of going to another country to study something, because there you will have to talk, read, and write. So, I believe that blogs were an excellent way to learn and practice this language!

Right now I would say that my main problem with English gets out when I have to talk because I feel that I know how to read and write pretty well, and also I can see a video in English and understand almost everything, but when I have to talk, even knowing what I have to do, I realize that I am not able to do it in the way that I would like to do it. I think that this happens mainly because of lack of practice, so to improve this I am going to try to practice more.

Like I said before, I am able to read, write, and understand someone who speaks English pretty well, and I use that to see YouTube videos, to read comics (in English), to do some research about something that I know that there is more information in English, to hear some podcasts. It is very nice to know English because I feel that I can access more things in every aspect of life!