About learning English

Hello everyone!

In this post I’m going to talk about my experience learning english at university and some other things.

My first experience learning English in college was in science faculty when I was pursuing another degree. These courses were very similar to the English classes at school, we worked with a book that we had to complete throughout the semester and it was very focused on English gramar, a bit with a dynamic of learning by repetition. Since the course was designed for “hard science” careers, it was much more focused on a scientific language. The teacher who made these subjects (there were two, English 1 and 2) is an excellent teacher and she taught us things about pronunciation and how certain words were understood depending on the context. Regarding my current experience, I have liked much more this dynamic in wich we learn English by “doing”, that is, listening to the teachers speak in English and giving instructions in the language, having to speak English and also having to write it. Personally, I learn better by interacting with the language in this way than by doing more “mechanical” work.

From what I have pointed out, the blog has seemed like a super Good learning tool, buy I must admit that among so many things to do in the university, they were transformed into more academic load, especially because there is little time to present it, so I did not enjoy it so much of the writing of all the posts as I would have liked. However, as I really enjoy writing, it was interesting to do so on topics as diverse as those we have discussed. The blog helped me a lot to learn about writing in English.

I think that pronunciation and gramar are my weakest aspects in English. I think that the first thing can be worked on by daring more to speak English in public and singing more songs in English jajaja. Regarding gramar, I think it would help me to watch videos in English with subtitles in the same language and read texts.

Currently, I use English to watch series and many times it is necessary to read texts for university assignments or material handed out by teachers.

Since this is the last post, I say goodbye and wish you a good end of the semester 😊 Cheer up, the holidays are coming!!



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  1. Esteban Hernández Cáceres25 de junio de 2021, 20:07

    I find it unbelievable that people who learned English only by watching English series when they were little, I don't understand it. But, still, watching series in English helps a lot with fluency and sharpening the ear.

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  2. Anais Herrada25 de junio de 2021, 20:14

    I have told me that watch videos in English with subtitles in the same language is a good way to learn English!

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  3. catalina schaeffer25 de junio de 2021, 20:47

    Like you, I apply English to watch series and read texts for university assignments.

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  4. Karen Contreras H,25 de junio de 2021, 20:58

    I think the same as you! It is important to learn a language in constant interaction :D

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  5. Yohana26 de junio de 2021, 13:57

    Yes english songs are very good, and singing is an excelent practice

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  6. Francisca Pérez26 de junio de 2021, 19:39

    I also find it difficult to speak English in public :(

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  7. Javiera Muñoz T.27 de junio de 2021, 14:18

    I think the same! Also, I'm still very bad at grammar and resdaction jajaja

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