Last post: English Language challenges

I already knew how to write or speak in English, because my school specialty was this language, but being in this class at university helped me a lot. This class has been an amazing a very useful experience because it helped me remember things I didn’t know I forgot and because I got to practice all aspects of the language and forms of expression, such as writing, reading and speaking. Some of my favorite classes were the ones where we talked about social issues and the characteristics of the decades in our country, because not only we practice and learned, but we also got to discuss very relevant issues and give our opinions.

Using a blog has been an experience I underrated at the beginning of it, but ended up being very important, because not only was I writing in English, but also improving my vocabulary and expressing myself about the different topics given. In the end of it I caught myself having a really good time with it.

I would like to improve my pronunciation because I tend to mix words and the order of sentences sometimes. Also, I would like to improve even more my vocabulary because sometimes I find myself using the same words in the same sentences. I think I can accomplish these things by talking to people who know the language, like some friends of mine and looking to synonymous of the words that I know.

I have been using the language a lot outside of this class, because many of my social media accounts are in English and in some I only speak to English native speakers. I also watch videos or movies in English with subtitles in the same language, which helps me to understand better what people say and their different accents.

Changes to my Study Programme

This academic year is finally ending (slowly but ending anyways) and the final exams are approaching. This bring to my mind the changes that I’m going to have next year here at university, mostly my curriculum.

Next year I will no longer have (if I pass, of course) history or introduction to law anymore. Other subjects will be added such as International Public Law or Procedural Law, to mention some of them. From what I heard, this subjects tend to be very difficult and/or boring, so I’m expecting a lot of workload next year. One good thing I can thin out of this, is that next year I will be a bit more prepared to face a bit more difficulty.

I don’t think I will be one of the few people who end earlier the career because for me is just not realistic. I just hope I get to end the career in the corresponding time.

One thing that I would definitely love to have in the faculty is more trees and green areas in general. The most common comment about it is that the faculty is too grey and I agree with it. That’s why I think more green areas are necessary, not to mention the utterly need of more shadowed places to protect us from the hot weather (very common here in Santiago).

I don’t have so many ideas of what can change or be included in terms of technology, but one thing I’m sure of is that one thing the university (or at least, this faculty) is more facilities for our blind classmates, such as the reading material in braille or in audio, because a teacher in the first semester told the class that most of the material is not available for them.

One of the things I would change about the teaching methods is a more active system, because it tends to work a lot and from the classes that I have with this method, they make me study continuously and with that I avoid to be lazy and leave things for the last minute. The down side of it is that is very tiring, though.