English language challenges

About my experience learning English at university I can say that has been very useful to know more about the language in a cultural sense. One of the most important things that I retrieve from this class is the different points of view that we could know and discuss. I attribute a lot of importance to the different authors that we read, the movies that we saw and the different types of videos and texts that we could have access to. Something that I learnt more deeply is that English has a history and each group or community in their geographical location has its own way to speak and interpret language. Also, I added more words to my vocabulary. Practicing is always good to know more words, their meanings and how we can use them.

I think that blogs are an entertaining tool to learn, but I think is more useful to practice how to speak. It’s true that we have to know how to write, but in my opinion writing is something that you can practice by your own and speaking is something that requires more help.

About the aspects of my English that need to be improved, I think that speaking is something I have never to stop practicing, because I don’t live in a country where everyone speak English all the time, so if I don’t improve this with practice I won’t get speaking skills.

Outside the English class, I’m using English for different things. In first place, I use it sometimes to read some academic texts that are not translated. In many cases I have found very useful texts for different projects or works that have no translation, so it’s necessary to know English to read them. And also I use English for my work in the website; many of the music news or interviews from foreign bands are published by US media first, so I have to read that to complement what I’m writing. Recently I’ve interviewed some bands in English; that is always a challenge, but it’s really enjoyable too.