English language challenges

Go fun yourself!

Learning a second language is as important as breathing. For me, the most important languages on this world are Chinese and English, but at this moment I’ll focus in the last one. I can’t simply stay a day without read, listen or at least speak in English. For example, I prefer to listen to music with English lyrics than Spanish music, and it’s very satisfying to understand a stanza of your favorite song. Reading can’t be missed in the day; I always read something in English, like instructions, books, even memes in 9gag.com (best page of dank memes, of course).

Until now, I had a good experience learning English here at the University; writing blogs is a good idea to improve our abilities, including language, grammar and vocabulary. But I think that we must improve even more our English, maybe using more scientific English? I don’t know. Also changing the topics we have to develop, because sometimes, they can be a little boring.

Thanks 9gag, and your Grammar Nazis for teaching me.

Certainly, there’re many things out there to improve in my English. For example my grammar isn´t very good, neither my pronunciation, but at least I can understand and be understood by another person speaking in English. My plan is simple, studying more grammar and listen more dialogues to improve my pronunciation.  

Outside the English class I use more my mother language; I’ll speak in English if someone also wants to talk in this language, but I also use games and watch movies with the English voices, and I search and read the lyrics of my favorite English music. Simply I can’t live without this idiom, it’s so important in our globalized world.

Changes to my study programme

As I said in other blogs, currently I’m studying pharmacy at the University of Chile, and in the few months that I’m studying, I don’t have clear ideas or changes that could be made to my study programme or career to be more pleasant being here.

Personally, I think that a few changes in the programme can make the simply task of studying here a much better experience. Any changes are good, right?

There are a lot of upgrades and changes to discuss about, but I’ll focus in five topics: the subjects that we have to study, the workload and length of studies, the faculty facilities; like buildings and infrastructure, the use of technology, and finally, the teaching methods.

In the first topic, I think that the subjects are OK as a faculty, but with the advance of the technology and the continuous improvement of the knowledge, the programme needs to update every few years, to avoid being in the past in terms of knowledge. Sad, but true.

About the length of studies and workload, we need to short the time that we spend in studying or at least, have time to spend with the family and friends, that is to say, avoid the stress in every way possible.

In the third topic is simple, in infrastructure we are OK. We have a lot of computers to use, a good library, study rooms and air conditioning; which is nice in hot days. But we shout of having a casino where we can lunch, or having more tables outside where we can eat or share with our friends. 

I agree in have more use of technology to study, I think this topic is very necessary to this career, and we can broaden our knowledge using it.

I don’t argue about the teaching methods, but in my opinion we can enhance them even more. Having more informative talks and trips, debates and time where we can discuss about the class would be great!

THIS WOULD BE SO HILARIOUS!