Post 10: English Challenges

I can´t believe that I finally finish the English programme in the university, how time flies!

About what was for me this subject, I think that the obligation of the university about coming to learn English is very boring and a mere formality. Really, because it’s an obligation it’s boring... but I have to say that anyway I have entertained with the exercises, the teacher and my classmates. I would like to express my gratitude to the teacher, because she always have so much energy and a good disposition for teach us. Also she always shows very compressive with the student movement and his strikes, at difference from others teachers in English.

I believe that doing blogs is some of the best exercises to learn English… but in my opinion it would be more pedagogical to be talking in English a lot all the time. When someone learns specific things you tend to forgive it very soon… it’s in the constant practice when you really learn. That’s because I really believe that going to a country where the English is the principal language, is the best way to learn English. I hear about many people that learn in this way, even when they not know anything about the language.

I have to improve my pronunciation and learn more words and some things of the grammar or syntax. I hope to go someday to an English-speaking country and then learn this language to the level of speaking without problems. Anyway, if I can’t do it by now, I could listen to English-speaking TV series or read this language in papers or something.

In these days I practically don’t use English to speak. I just use it to sing or understand the songs of bands that are wrote in English, but, for example, I never met some foreigner to speak with him or her. But sometimes, I like to speak in English with my little sister (she is 13 years old), for make some jokes that our mom can’t understand, for sing our favorite songs, and sometimes we read the news and the spoilers of the series that we follow, like The walking dead, or the Game of Thrones.

Post 9: Changes to my Study Programme

I’m studying psychology, in the four year of the career. When I think about it I just can realize that the time flies jaja. And, when I think about what changes I would make in the study programme, I think in a lot of things that I like to change. First, something that I and my classmates have talked, is about the professional practice. In our career, we started the practice just in the five year of the study programme, different from the most of the universities that impart the career of psychology, like “La Universidad de la Frontera” (UFRO) in Temuco. They start the professional practice in the second year of the career, and, if well, the practice is not very difficult, they can learn a lot of things about the how the psychology is applicate in the different contexts. So, we feel that we are not the enough trained for the practice in the five year, that supposed to be our final year of career (yeah, of course).

Also, in the five year of my career, we have to take a subject at the same time that we have to make the thesis and the professional practice. So, you can understand that the five year is very complicated. For this reasons, the most of the students in psychology, ends the career in six years and not in five, the formal duration of the career. We think that the five year of the career, have to reduce the academic load. How? Well, maybe the practice can start years before at the final year in the career.

For other sides, the faculty doesn’t counts with an appropriated number of classrooms. So although we have classrooms for our normal classes, we don’t have enough classrooms for our own activities, or the assistantships of the subjects, handle by students. The places for study in the faculty, like the library or the computer rooms also are very small and uncomfortable, very noisy. At the end of the semester, and in the test periods, the library and the computer rooms are full of people, in all the faculty and also all the campus.

I think that is all for now, bye!