English Language Challenges

Hello everyone, today I will tell you about my experience with the English language. 

Learning English at university is not easy at all, especially if you don't have a good knowledge base about the language . The truth is, I've had a hard time keeping up with the classes, because my vocabulary is quite reduced, and I have a hard time understanding what they say to me when someone speaks to me, it's easier to understand when it's written.

The use of blogs has helped me to learn new words, to improve writing, spelling and to know the different points of view and tastes that exist among my classmates.

My English needs to be improved, especially the speaking English, which is something I find difficult and scary, because I haven't had any practice. I could improve by learning a new word a day and its pronunciation to expand my vocabulary, especially learning the verbs. Listening to more music, hearing more conversations and also practicing speaking with someone, so that I become a little more fluent and don't get so scared when you need to talk to an expert

In these days I don't make much use of the language, before I used to listen to music, I learned the lyrics of the songs and their meaning or gave me the time to watch movies to learn new words and their pronunciation, but now with the academic load there is no time left to indulge in those pleasures. I use English when we have to look for information in documents to do some evaluated work, or when there is some instruction that does not come in Spanish.

"CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME"

 

I am currently studying Chemistry and Pharmacy. There are subjects in the study program that are really relevant to my career, but there are other subjects that are totally unnecessary in my opinion, eliminating them from the program would significantly decrease the workload and length of the career, which is already quite extensive in comparison to other universities. In addition, there are annual subjects that increase the length of the program when you fail them.

Another change in the faculty would be to improve the infrastructure, for example, the classrooms, more green areas, because our faculty is mostly surrounded by cement,

upgrade the lab room and have more places to study. I believe that our faculty is poor in terms of technology compared to other faculties, has very few computers available for work and most of the time they are busy and projectors that sometimes don't work.

Each teacher has his or her own method of teaching, and it is somewhat more complicated to change, since they have been teaching the same way for several years now and some refuse to implement new things or the use of technology in their classes. You always learn and understand better with one teacher than with another, but you don't always have the possibility to be with them, since the subjects are mostly divided into sections.

             I know the changes are expensive, but they would be worth it for a better education.