Blog Session 11: English Lenguage Challenges

This was the first year I made an English subject at the university, English IV, and I found it interesting. It has been useful because I have refreshed a lot my memory in the use of English and I also have learned some new words. Every lesson consists of two parts: in the first one you talk about different topics that are given by the teacher (Belén) and in the second part we write in our blogs also about a given topic. My favorite part is the first one, because you are able to practice the speaking (I don´t have many chances to do that normally) and also because the topics are funny, and you always end talking about a different thing, unrelated to the initial subject and it doesn´t matter on condition that you continue speaking in English. The second part is sometimes a little boring, but the use of blogs was something new for me, and that´s always interesting.

As you can see my English is far from being perfect, I can improve in many aspects, but I think it´s harder for me to talk, than to write, because when you write, you have more time to think what you want to say (and you can even correct some mistakes you make), but when you speak, your mind must think faster so that the conversation doesn´t get boring.

I didn´t use to use my English outside the English class, but today I have to read papers for some subjects in the university that aren´t translated to Spanish, because they´re relatively new. When we first begun to do that was when I found out that I have to practice also my reading a little more, because I have to use a lot of time so I can understand complete texts, because I must search for a lot of words in the dictionary.