English Language Challenges

Hi everyone!

Today I’m going to write about my experience in learning English.

I always have loved learning English but I never give to this subject enough time to go in depth. At university, this is my first semester of English in this career and I have learned a lot because there were so much things that I didn’t remember from school. In relation to the use of blogs I think it has helped me so much because you must talk about different themes and that makes you use and learn a lot of new vocabulary and grammatical tenses. Sometimes we have in our mind ideas but when we have to write about something it’s totally different.

Regarding to what aspects of my English need to be improve, I think it’s “the speaking” because it’s not so good. It’s difficult for me to pronounce a lot of words but I try haha with some of my classmates that must to do English at university too, have planned to practice talking in English in the lunch or breaks we have.   And I think I use English a lot outside the class because I’m always watching series or movies or listening to music in English and this makes me learn a lot too.

Changes to my study program

Hi everyone today I will talk about some changes that could be made to my career: Social Work.

Well, when I decided to study Social Work I was really satisfied about some subjects. For example, we have a subject called Gender Theories that I think it’s totally necessary and I have not seen in another careers. Despite this, I disagree about the length of studies (five years), because it implies a lot of time, although this fact is not exclusive of Social Work but the majority of professional careers in Chile, I think this could be changed because it seems like some subjects of the curriculum have been thought just to ”fill space” so we have to pay more years.

In Social Work an important aspect to consider is the language learning because the majority of studies about this discipline are in English, German or Portuguese.  We have an obligatory subject of language: English J but it would be great if we had one more instead of subjects like the first “Tranversal” we had in first year because with a lot of my classmates think it was more like a burden subject instead of a time to learn because made workload heavier. Also, I would like our first two years of career were not just “read” because this makes difficult to imagine how we will “put in practice” all the things we have learned maybe if we could take part in some organizations we could notice things that are unperceived in just a reading exercise. I think it should be a balance between that we read and what we do outside of academic papers.

OPINIONS

What is your opinion about owning an exotic pet?

I think owning an exotic pet is not correct. In first place, it must be a huge reason to call them “exotic pets”, probably they have been took from places that have particular habitats and specific weathers and I think that force them to live in a place that is not  their natural home just to please a human desire is not something I agree. Besides I wonder why you’d want an exotic pet if there are a lot of “non-exotic animals” to take care of.

What is your opinion about the immigration situation in Chile?

This topic is really important. I think the immigration in Chile have been took for some politics to obtain votes, which is really alarming because there is a hate discourse about how the immigration is not a human right and how the immigrants come to Chile to commit crimes or take jobs that "are for Chilean people", all this reasons are based in fake and stupid stereotypes that just generate a more segregated community

What is your opinion about tattoos?

I love tattoos, when I was in high school I thought tattoos needs to have a strong meaning about philosophy, religion or maybe a date that had a mark on you but now I think my idea about this have changed. I mean, tattoos can have specific meanings but also can be used for more aesthetics reasons without a transcendental sense.   Besides, I think people never have to be judged because of their tattoos and maybe that is something older people don’t understand sometimes.

What is your opinion about the Chilean tradition called ‘mechoneo’?

I think is a stupid tradition because you have to tolerate that someone you barely know humiliate you in front of everyone. Maybe there are a lot of dynamics that makes “mechoneo” looks more like a funny game, (gymkhanas, paint your hair or body, etc.) but the point is how someone who is just one or two years older than you believes that have the power to make you do things you don’t want to, because if you don’t accept it they can cut your hair, or cut your clothes…