Saturday, November 18, 2017

BLOG 10: ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHALLENGES

Hi everyone ! Today (although was in last week) I'm going to write about my experience learning english.

Well, to start I agree with our teacher, we never learn a language completely, so my experience with English (and probably yours experiences) have not finished, especially nowadays, where the English language is the language of the world.
I have never been good with English but, in relationship with some years ago I think that I improved quite... and it's the idea, improved day to day because English is fundamental in today's life.
I like English language, although is difficult for me, but well, practically i'm obligated to learn because to my career, chemestry and pharmacy (and any career relationship with sciences) is indispensable because all scientific investigations are written in English.
Also, when I study, some books, pages, links, etc are written in English so, like I said, is necessary to learn English language.

Now, about my experience with blogs I think that it helped me to write in English with major fluency and it's fun because topic were goods and about themes of our interest.
Definitly there much to learn about English, personally I think that need more fluency when I talk in English because (is strange) when I talk in English I feeling like if I had to think before talk and it is very annoying for me but well, I think that I need see more movies or tv series in English... and talk more in English with anyone because I think that is's the big problem with me, practically outside class I don't talk in English, well, sometimes, but it's not sufficient.
Outside class I use English to watch movies or tv series, listen to music in English and sometimes I try "understand" what they say... read books to university and that it's all. Goodbye !!!


Tuesday, November 7, 2017

BLOG 9: CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

Hi everyone, we are close of the end of this semester, so many encouragement !!
Today we are going to write about our study programme, and changes for it.
I'm in my second year in university and (until now) i like my curriculum, i have some subjects that i like and other that i don't like, but it's normal.
If there is something that bothers me is the "hour-study's", and that is on any university/school or anything, the system on Chile it's exhausting as for this, and adding other problems of our society (health, public transport, poor working conditions, etc) finally "we live to work".
But well, I study around 8 hours per day and only on university, because when you arrive home you have to study for the exam/quiz or anything.

In terms of infrastructure i think that this is another problem with education (as we said in the last class, about "social issues") for example we don't have cafeteria to eat, the classrooms are nice but the amount of students is too many for our infrastructure.
I like our curriculum, but the "academic load" sometimes makes you not enjoy this process.
About technology use i think that is very nice on my faculty, all processes we do through of different platforms (u-cursos, u-campus, etc) and manytimes it facilitate you some formalities or something.
Practically all teachers use "power points or pdf" for your classes, and through of u-cursos their loaded it for we, and we can to study of it.
So... in summary i like curriculum, use of technology, etc but the big problem with studies in general is hour-study's and workload :(
Goodbye!!!