Post 10: English Study Challenges

Regarding the experience of learning English at university, I would start by saying that it is not that easy. Firstly, because due to the demanding workloads of my other subject I am not able to focus on my English as I wished. It tends to be the case that I end up leaving my English assignments to last meaning due to the workload of my other subjects. This means that my learning process is hindered and it ends up become a problem for me, resulting on more stress. Also, as there isn’t enough time to practice outside the classroom, the two-hour long lesson per week becomes the only study setting, thus making the learning process even more difficult.

However, I feel like I’ve been lucky enough to have very good teachers throughout the four English levels who have encouraged me to push forward and also helped me to find alternative ways for learning in order to do it by myself as I’m not always able to attend lessons.

In addition, practicing my written English doing things like writing blogs has been a very interesting experience. It allowed me to explore and expands my vocabulary, finding synonyms to the words I use, thus improving my writing abilities. I also believe that reading my classmates’ blogs is also very helpful.