How do I learn English?

Somewhere I heard that you can’t learn well other languages if you don’t know pretty well your native language first. I think this is true, because how will you learn how to express yourself in a good way in other language if you don’t even know how to do it in your own? I even think that’s why for some people is so hard to learn new languages and for others is so easy. So to try to improve my English I also try to improve my Spanish first.

I also like when I have the opportunity to talk English with people that actually have it as their native language, I think that’s the best way to learn how to express yourself and know where your lack of abilities are. Even when I’m too shy with people I don’t know and even more if we’re talking in a language that I’m still learning, after a while I can have enough confidence to just talk without thinking word by word what I have to say and those are the times when I think I speak the best.

Having this thought at mind, I like to train myself in the language but I don’t usually get the chance to find someone or somewhere with people that talks perfect English, so I train my ear listening songs, movies, series and podcasts in English without subtitles and it helps me to get used to expressions and intonations.

But the best help I could get is in class; if I have doubts I can directly ask them and share with my classmates to improve together. Also the blogs we do on Fridays had been helping me to learn grammatical and orthographic rules and how to express myself even better. But more than that, the classes at the University are so similar to the ones I had at high school. We even used the books from the same editorial!

Do I have a problem with the faculty?

Well, to answer this question I’m going to tell you a sad story.

I came to the university from a network of mini-hells called ‘’Emblematic Lyceums’’, every aspect of those places are horrible. The people tell you that they have excellent education to be municipal schools, that they are the best of the best and the people in charge of those lyceums tell you the same, but then you discover by yourself that everything is false.

First of all, the infrastructure is horrible, either you have water leaks, don’t have windows or the ceiling is just falling down into pieces, maybe all of it at the same time during winter. But that is not a big deal, you can easily get used to it even if that’s not positive. The worst thing about is the human quality of the people working; you’re almost nothing more than a number for them, they tell you that they care for you while in the practice is nothing like that, they just treat you like a thing and do the impossible to adjust you to their standards (the clothes you wear, how you look, how you talk to them, how good are your grades, etc.), being the academic one the most important they just put you under incredible pressure, making you have lots of exams, works, essays, videos and paintings to make. They want you to be perfect in everything and lots of classmates end up with serious psychological problems for that. 

That aspect was the worst for me, I don’t even know how I ended up graduating alive of that place xD But I have to tell that not everyone were horrible persons, there were some teachers and functionaries that knew everything we were been through and they really cared about us.

Honestly, I expected the same from this university, and even if I’m told that it’s kinda the same that in the emblematic lyceums in other faculties, this place is other world for me. The difference start even at the entrance where the guards smile at you just to say hi and not to check you to see if they can take something from you or punish you for something.

Being here is a relief for me. In comparison the workload, the faculty facilities, the human quality, the teaching methods and how good the teachers are is WAY better than it was before for me.

I love this place <3

Expressing opinions and those things

First of all, I’m telling that I am not a person of politics in the way that I don’t like to get involved into national/international political themes; it’s just not of my interest. But that doesn’t get me apart from having opinion in some areas. I’ll start from the easiest ones for me.

What is your opinion about the legalization of abortion in the 3 cases?

I’m in favor, in fact, for me doesn’t even need to be in ‘’the 3 cases’’, I’m in favor for the free abortion. Principally for what it means for women and our lives, the freedom of not being afraid that something could just go wrong and that we’ll have nothing or no one to protect us.

What is your opinion about legalizing marijuana and other drugs?

I’m supporter of the thought that every person has the right of do what they want to them and the intelligence enough to decide for themselves what’s good. Also I think every kind of limitation would make people want even more what’s forbidden. That’s what I think drugs must be legal.

What is your opinion about violence on television?

You can show nonsense violence, which I hate and avoid. You can show violence with a reason, to recreate an event of the past, to show art, to express something, which I think is the most valid way to show it. But even when I don’t like nonsense violence, one of the things that annoys me the most is the censorship of expression, or the censorship itself. So I don’t think it should be forbidden.

What is your opinion about buying instead of adopting pets?

I think I’d expressed enough how liberally are my thoughts, and even when I think that buying pets can carry wrong practices and the best choice for everyone (pets, owners, world) is to adopt, I won’t be the one prohibiting people to buy an exotic  pet or a breed dog if that’s what they want, even when I don’t think they should be seen as a consumer good.