English Language Challenges


Personally, this semester I learned a lot about english, both how to write it and how to pronounce it. In my opinion the practice is very important and that's the stronghold of this course. One of the best excercises of practice that we been doing are blogs because they are an excercise of drafting so we have to put our ideas in a different language and when we do that we also learn new words in the way to express ourselves better. I think I learned a lot of new words for that reason.

Even when I think that my english level is good enough I have some weaknesses in the moment of  speaking, specifically with accents. I can easily understand a neutral english accent (like some USA english) but the british or australian accents are a little difficult for me. For example, the other day I talked with an australian actress at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago and she understood me and I understood her but sometimes her accent was very marked so some words sounded completely different to me and I only confirmed them by their context. I think that it's because I'm used to see only american and british content so to change this weakness maybe I need to watch more indie movies that usually proceed from a country that doesn't speak english so the accent is very marked.

The knowledge in english that I have acquired has been very useful lately, specially because when I'm investigating about a topic on the internet the best information and sources are in english. Before I used to put the translator to understand that information but it's not very precise so usually the information was misrepresented. Now I can read it directly and it gives me more security when I'm using it as a reference.

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  1. at least you already have the base to be able to communicate with other people who speak English

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  2. australian accent is hard to understand. "am i roooight?"

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