Post 10 (04-12): English Language Challenges

The End of the Beginning

During my five years in college I discovered that English is very important to develop interpersonal relationships between people, because thanks to the conversations about series and films that I had with my friends, I begun to understand many jokes and memes that are in social media all the time and, I don’t know how, I started to understand more in the English classes (yes!). I’m saying that memes, series and youtube’s videos save my life during the process of learning English at college. 

Obviously, I want to say thanks to the teachers for support me in this complex road, because their teaching methods was very didactic in comparison with the poor and boring methods that I had at high school.

I think that is great the “write-in-a-blog method”. This was useful for me and it makes so much easier building sentences to write my texts  in this language. I learned how to express complex ideas (for my level).

Furthermore, I think that my weakest skills are listening and the vocabulary. When I hear people talking each other in English, I’m not capable to understand the full mean of the sentences. I think is because the speed of how people talk. And I don’t know a lot of words. To improve this, I think I should watch even more series and films in English, maybe without the help of the subtitles to force myself to think in English. It would be helpful, reading a lot too. Or, I could go to a language club in some library and have conversations with real people in English.

In my daily life, I use the English in my profession. I mean, there are tons of technical words related to filmmaking, for examples shutter speed, frame, transfer, travelling...and the list goes on and also I use in my leisure time.