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What challenges are left

Hello everyone! How are you doing? Welcome to the last post. Can you believe it? I can't. Considering this I'm going to talk about how was this English course for me. I wish you the best for this term ending and I hope we see us again.

I have liked a lot learning English at university. I like that we have more opportunities to talk, listen and write English than that I had at school and even than the previous term.

In this course we have had more opportunities to speak and it has been great because we can talk using characteristic expressions of situations that are out of our university context and exercise fluency. I think that I have improved in that way because of that.

In classes we use to hear recorded dialogues and use them as example. I think this tool is very useful. We also use to hear our teacher making classes in English. I appreciate that he takes the time to solve all our doubts of vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar. Even though I would like that he spoke in English all the time, even when when he had to explain something complicated, because I know that he can makes us understand without using Spanish and I don't want to lose the few minutes a week I spend hearing English, hearing Spanish.

Talking about writing, I think blogs are an excellent idea, because you are compelled to write every week and practice makes perfect. It has been a big challenge for me, because I use to think a lot how to say things and I think double when I'm trying to say something in a language that isn't my mother tongue. Besides I usually want to say more than I'm asked for and extend myself far more than that it is required. When we just started writing posts I used to stay at least one hour after classes to finish them. Just imagine! Thank God I have recently learned to confine my writing to what's just necessary (and a little bit more to be sincere) and I don't have to think as much as at the beginning. 

However I still have a lot to learn about English and keep on studying alone will be a big challenge. I still have to learn a lot of vocabulary, make my speaking and writing more fluent and train my ear to understand better English speakers. Another situation that it is difficult to handle by myself would  be choosing a new word to say something that I didn't know how to say in English. When that happens I usually search for a translation and I get a lot of different words that are used in that situation but in different contexts. If I can't ask for someone with more experience help, I don't know which one is the best.

To improve in this aspects I think I must keep in contact with English, maybe reading books in that language, talking with my sister, watching movies in English and things like that. Maybe I could keep writing posts about topics of my interest but, considering the time I spend doing it I don't think that I could be constant with that. 

I don't use to do this things, so it would be a complete challenge. Well, lets make honor to the blog's name then. :D

Have a nice day and God bless you.

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