Danielish 101

For me, one of the most important things of studying English at the university is the fact that even when many students had English classes as a compulsory course during schooldays, it's not such at university. And without practice on your skills you would eventually start forgetting what you learned during school. On this line, the use of a weekly blog is an amazing way of practice writing skills and, eventually, improving them. This have been very useful for me, as I have learned a lot of expressions during the research process for writing the posts.

The main aspect of my English that I have always thought that I have to improve my oral comprehension skills. Although I have studied English for plenty of years by know (since I was in kindergarten), I haven't been able to fully understand at a 100% what I'm listening in English when I'm not using closed captions. I practice a lot by listening a lot to English music and watching also, a lot of English-spoken movies and series. But still there's a long road ahead to keep improving.

Outside my English classes I'm pretty sure that I use English everyday. The main reason is that because of the fact that most of the information on the web is in English it very useful for me when understanding it when I look for Breaking News in English papers websites like theguardian.co.uk or similar ones. Even, when I need to know something about history I go straight to Wikipedia's English version as it is the most complete one. Also, I love to watch movies in their original language and I don't like to watch them with subtitles in Spanish as translations do not always capture the meaning of the expressions in their original movies.

Other main reason is because in legal practise is being more and more required a good level of English knowledge in order to get a good job. That's why I think that is very useful to learn English more than ever.