Last post!

I can’t believe how fast has passed this year. We’re almost finishing classes and this is already the last post! I’m scared about feeling that the time flies, we’re getting older every day and there is still a lot of things I want to do but I don’t know if the times will be enough to do everything.

Well, talking about today’s topic, I liked this subject, because I had been like 3 years without English classes, so I needed to strengthen the oral part, and practice. This subject has also allowed me to learn new things, so it has been really helpful, specially the blogs, that are a very good tool to improve the writing skills, when we redact our posts and reading, when we read and comment our classmate’s post.

I thing I still need to practice the spoken part. It has always been difficult to me to talk in English and sound naturally fluent; because I try to think in Spanish and then I translate it, but I’ve always heard that the better way to learn and speak properly is thinking in English the things you want to say, because you sometimes get “lost in translation”, some things are not translated as we understand it or they simply don’t have any meaning in our language. I think I should start reading books in English again (regrettably, with all the things I have to read and study at law school, every time I read less novels and see less my friends), start again watching movies in English without subtitles (thanks to law school again because I haven’t seen a movie in months).

Outside the class, I don’t have many opportunities to practice, but I have a friend that is dating with an Austrian girl, and as she doesn’t speak Spanish, and I don’t speak German, we talk in English, so is very fun to practice with her. Besides that, I just can dream with travelling to an English-spoken country and practice there.