My experience learning English at the university

Nowadays, English is in everywhere. I consider myself as a part of one generation that grew up in an environment bombarded with English. In fact, most of the famous musicians sing in English, and almost every movie or T.V series that I usually watch are spoken in English as well. We have a lot of words and terms that we use daily without notice that they actually came from the English, like “suéter” which derivate from sweater. In this global Era, knowing English became a really helpful tool, especially in academics terms, where most of the information is just available in English.

In general, I believe that the University’s English program is good way to get along with this language. During the course is possible to improve English’s skills as listening, speaking, reading and specially writing. A really good aspect of the course is that the little number of students in each class, which gives the opportunity for practice “speaking” to every present student. In fact, the number of students affects directly the develop of speaking skills, for instance, during high school was almost impossible to practice “speaking” during the class due to the number of classmates, I mean, there were forty-five of us! Apart from this, another really good aspect of the course was that we learn new things, like phonetic, something that I found necessary and useful to improve my pronunciation.

What I personally didn’t like of the course was keeping a blog. In one hand I find it a very good way for developing writing skills, and also very easy to check and correct for the teacher. In the other hand, I usually found boring to write in the same format all the sessions. Other negative aspect to consider was the class schedule; I wouldn’t mind getting up earlier in the morning instead of staying until half past seven in the evening at the university!

Taking everything into account, I conclude that there were great advantages on doing this English course. I must admit that I wasn’t really motivated to take this class, but now that is almost finished, I can hardly find more disadvantages than those two that I already mention. Apart of improving my English, through reading people’s blogs the course gave me the opportunity to know better some of my classmates. Finally, as a suggestion, I believe the course needs some more dynamic activities, like playing “The weakest link”! I really enjoyed that class!