Post 10: English

Due to my experience last semester I thought that the English program didn't work, not just for me but for everyone who took it. As we talked the other day, the placement test that sends us to a specific level is awful. It doesn't show what we really know and what we don't. Also, last semester the teacher didn't challenge us to learn, to speak or practice our English knowledge. It was just this semester that my opinion of the course changed. But not completly. Last semester the teacher didn't care for our pronunciation, how we spoke, how we read, how we wrote... She made us pass the class just by doing our homework, without caring how we did it. She actually told us that she would make us pass as a favor. She always did the excersises herself, and didn't ask us to try to do them. 

In my experience, they were some homework which helped me practice and made me learn lot of new things this semester. One of them was to write the blog, because I realized that I can explain myself by writing and not only speaking out loud. 

As a means of practice, and not only this year but since a long time ago (and probably will in the future), I watch movies or series in English and with English subtitles or even without them. I also have an agreement with some friends that we only speak in English, either in person or by texting each other. For that reason, I changed my smartphone's language, so when I don't know how to write a word or an expression, the automatic corrector proposes me how to continue, it has helped me a lot. I've learn lot of new things and also remembered some forgotten ones.  My best partner for practice is one of my sisters, we are three and we all speak English. With one of them, we always do it because (a) we practice, (b) we can say things and the rest of our family won't know. LOL.