My
experience learning English at the university was very different in relation
with my school experience. In my school, my homework was principally focused on
reading and listening, but writing and especially talking were topics that I barely
saw. In this case, my experience learning English at the university has been
more focused in writing, for example we write blogs every week so we are
constantly work in improving our ability of writing (coherence, connection,
vocabulary, etc.)
Personally,
I love blogs. I used to write a lot before the university, but now I have a
lot of things to do in my classes, so it’s time consuming . As a
result, now I barely write except for my homework, so personally the
blogs in English classes have been useful to me for clearing my mind and giving me
the opportunity to write about my opinions and my life. But, I would really
like if the themes were freer or made more debatable about controversial topics.
I really
need to improve my oral abilities. I’m good at listening, I could watch
youtubers without subtitles, understand the song lyrics and among other things.
Respect to my ability for reading I’m pretty good, because I can read subtitles
in English, I also read Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows in English, and it’s
not that difficult to me reading things in English, obviously sometimes I have
problems with the vocabulary, but I’m getting better in this area. Thanks to
the blogs I guess that I improved my ability for writing, but I’m not really
sure. Finally, my abilities for talking are really bad, I’m really shy with
that, and I got nervous every time that I have to talk in English without
reading, it’s very hard for me.
But even if
I had some troubles with my English, I’m capable of keeping a conversation with
an English speaker, (I guess). Also, my English abilities allow me to understand papers
in English and most important, they are useful for understanding memes hahaha.
