Blog 10: English language challenges

About my experience learning English at university I think that only four levels to learn the language it’s not enough.  As journalists we need to know how to speak and understand fluid English, to be prepared when we need to spoke with someone who is from another country, because it seems that English has positioned itself as the world’s language.

About the use of the blogs I think it would be more useful if we discuss the topics in groups in contrast to writing by ourselves. We would give feedback to each other and we would learn from the discussion and from our classmate’s perspectives.

Personally, I think I need to improve my pronunciation and how to conjugate the words. I guess by speaking in English with others it’s the better way to learn quickly and improve more easily my flaws. I know the existence of groups in Santiago that, at least four times a month, get together to speak only and exclusively English to progress with their pronunciation and vocabulary. I would love to join something like that in the future, when I feel more confident about my pronunciation. For now I’m going to keep watching movies and series in English (sometimes not by choice) to expand my vocabulary and practice my listening with different accent.

On a daily basis, I don’t speak much English besides from the time when we spoke on class. I listen to English music but that would be. I’m a little bit lazy but I certainly think that is a very important thing to learn and dominate.