English in Action!!

Hi Everyone, today I´m going to refer about my experience speaking English :)

Well, my experience learning English this year has been something out of the normal, but I agree with the teaching methodology taught at the University of Chile for teaching English, since I find it much more effective to have to write and post about different current issues that happen to us or have occurred in our lives, to practice writing in English and to have a better order of our ideas, to be able to express ourselves in front of English speakers.

As I said, it seemed a fantastic and very original idea to create our own blogs to post our ideas, because that is how we practice grammar and writing, as well as ordering our ideas in a good way.

I think the part that I need to improve intensely is to speak English, since I'm not used to thinking my ideas in English, and always when I speak, what I usually do is translate in Spanish my ideas in my head before saying it, and that takes a lot time to process the words and say them in a fluent way as the English speakers, however, I think that with the practice and persistence speaking English, not only in the period of classes, but also outside the university, it would be a good method to practice the language.

The truth is that, outside of class I don´t use much English, since I haven´t had the need to do it, because my whole life revolves around Spanish, in my house we spoke Spanish, my friends speak Spanish, so that I don´t have many opportunities to speak English in my daily life, but maybe I could consider a practice, the fact of working with design programs in English, that are not translated into Spanish and that you need to know some English to be able to use them J