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English IV: Post 8 - English language challenges

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I consider that English at the university is more applied to do work with it, read papers and clearly teach how to cope with a conversation, it is much more applied. I consider that the blogs have helped me to develop my linguistic skills a little more, although I am not an expert and I still have a lot of work to do, I think that the blog has contributed to this, however I have to admit that I get help with it, there are many words that I forget or that I simply don't know, referred to that I have many things to improve, starting with the huge vocabulary that I still don't learn, also how to develop conversations and how to speak without getting nervous because my English is bad. However, I still don't give up with the language because I like it a lot, but I know that it will take me a long time to master it. With this I think I have to read more, listen more and study more English, for now I learn English with songs with movies, I usually watch them subtitled to listen to...

English IV: Post 7 - Changes to my study programme

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Given the pandemic context, there are several things that I did not like about the geography study program, starting with the amount of work that has to be handed in and the fact that they are all in groups, although it is easier to review this way, I do not consider it a good way to evaluate since the collective work is evaluated and not the individual work, although they are application work, which is very good, I consider that from time to time individual work is much more profitable.  On the other hand, I consider that the hours that one is in front of a computer is very tiring, especially since the schedule is designed to have the course in a single day, so being three to four hours, with only ten minutes of rest is very tiring, especially when some teachers do not respect that time. What I do consider that has been beneficial is the program that we geography students use (ArcGIS) because it is much more personalized learning, the teacher takes the time for every doubt, both a...