1st entry

My previous learning experience.

Well, last year was a bit difficult for me. Regardless of the fact that last semester I was on Introduction to Linguistics course that it helped me a lot in IEL6, it was a bit hard for me to get a better or "flawless" English level as the teachers wanted.

I don't know why, but I think it is weird when someone evaluates you in a "fictitious" scenario like oral tests. Why am I saying that it's weird and ficticious? by the reason that I found this tests can't prove your level or your management of the language because that creates a complicated and nervous situation. You can't fail, you can't miss a word, it is hard to think in complex esturctures and so on.

On the other hand, when you are normally talking with a peer, or even a teacher, words come out easily and you express your ideas in a better and naturally way. In that case, I believe, that people are not nervous and if they make a mistake it won't be that terrible as if they were talking to someone else who is qualifying their language skills.

As I said in the first part of this entry, it was a bit difficult semester but that doesn't mean that the topics were boring or meaningless. As I mentioned, I was in Introduction to Linguistics course too and was very useful because I could practice more the topics seen in both classes, that were similar, and that helped me to understand and trully learn.

I hope this semester would be full of new things to learn (about English language and also different topics like the one we are covering now) but I don't want to feel the same I felt on the previous semester; for instance, when I made a mistake no one told me "on time" just when it's too late (when the marks are already put)