Post 8: English Language Challenges

• What comments can you make about your experience learning English at university? What about the use of blogs?
• What aspects of your English need to be improved and how do you plan to do this?
• Outside the English class, how much are you using English these days? What for?

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- Make comments on 3 of your partners' posts.

Let’s talk about learning English. Learning this language has been a plus in my life. Many doors have opened in my professional life. I did not learn English in the university. I learned it in an institute in New York. So it is difficult to talk about an experience that I did not have.
However, I believe that this opportunity that it is being given to students today of learning English as part of their curriculum is very good. I wish I had it.  I have to say that I learned to write by practicing and editing my papers at the university. If I had had a blog like this, it would have been much easy to practice my writing. I learned that this language has different ways of writing like Spanish. The most difficult is the academic writing. The blog is a good experience if one takes seriously. It helps a lot to improve the writing skills.
In my case I learn many different things about English every day. I enjoy learning about the different rules and ways to talk and write. I try to expose myself to English every day at least 20 to 30 minutes. I listen to the news in English on cable; I listen to music and talk to my colleagues in English as much as I can.
I believe that one always have to be opened minded in order to improve and learn more about this language that it will be a necessary tool for my career and for any one’s who wants to become a better professional. I say this because English has become the universal language, and most important papers are written in English.