My experience learning English at university

I’ll be honest… I am not really interested in learning English (or becoming proficient in the English language), so I’ll say many things about it.

First, this semester was more productive than the last one, because I hadn’t used the blogs before and I liked this method (although I’m not responsible very much) due to the fact that I can to improve the ability to writing and expressing my ideas in English, also learning new words. And the speaking activities were interesting, but it wasn’t easy for me, because I have always had difficult to speak (pronunciation, lacking vocabulary and the simple fact of to think what I’m going to say, considering that it’s complicated in Spanish too… for me).

With respect to my own skills, I knew very clearly that I can reading and, more or less, writing in English, but cannot speaking very much and listening… I’m suck!... I would like to improve my listening skills, but I don’t know how to do it… Well, people have told me that listening to music and watching movies in English help, but I’m not sure… Do you know some method?

And finally, I don’t use very much the language in my life outside the university… Well, except chatting with natives sometimes, reading news or watch videos in English about a subject of interest and… that’s all! English isn’t part of my life… I think because I’m interest to learn other language (Russian) and I feel that I know enough about English for surviving in a place where people speak English.

Changes to my Study Programm??

Well… This is so complicated! Not because the faculty is perfect, of course, but I never think about “how to improve it” ... However, if I had the opportunity to change something, the first thing I would do is eliminating the fact that the university obligate us to join a General Formation Course (CFG in Spanish), because I think that, if those course are extracurricular and their objective is that we can ignore just for a moment what is like to study Architecture and do what we love to do, they should not be mandatory. They would be the same as the other subjects.

The second thing I would do is working more in classroom and correcting your mistakes with the teachers (and I’m talking about Workshop), because I don’t like the trial-and-error teaching method without some basis, that’s say, “doing the work at home alone and trying to guess what they want” (that’s what I lived in the last semester and it’s not enjoyable).

With regard to the buildings and infrastructure, I don’t have really complaints, because the people accustom and learn to live with its failures (like the “Titanic”, for example).

And finally, if I had to mention a technology object that I would like to see in the faculty, I’d say: microphone… Why?, because some teachers speak softly and we don’t understand anything, although we are a meter away from them… And I’m not exaggerating!

And well… (this time is the last thing), with respect the workload and length of studies… I don’t know… It’s very demanding, I don’t deny that… but… Which career is not?... Many time I’ve wished to kill me, but I think It's worth the effort.