Level 4 >> Post 10 (week 13): English Language Challenges

Level 4 >> Post 10 (week 13): English Language Challenges

* What comments can you make about your experience learning English at university? 

* What about the use of blogs?
* What aspects of your English need to be improved and how do you plan to do this?
* Outside the English class, how much are you using English these days? What for?

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- Make comments on 3 of your partners' posts and one on mine.

Dear students, this is our last blog session, I wish you all the best of success...

There are 4 skills in English that are meant to be developed when learning the language: writing, speaking, reading and listening; even though most people would say that "speaking” is the most difficult one to be acquired the truth is that "writing" gets the first place in terms of complexity and accuracy.

Writing Blogs is a good opportunity to put in practice our knowledge, to exercise it and to improve it and therefore to increase it.

We are living in a globalized world where the common language for doing business and exchanging relevant information (such as advances in medicine) is English.

All research done if given the case of having it published must be written in English since international magazines are in the so called “universal language”.

It is a known fact that for example when doing business with China enterprises there’s no need to know Mandarin but English; first approaches via email and contracts are written in this foreign language .

Covenants between universities from different countries are agreed in English too.

Summarizing: in modern society the way of communicating is through e-mails and texting, relations between friends, employer-employee, teacher-student, companies, universities, governments and so forth are carried on in a written manner.

Nowadays our mobile phones are used more for writing rather than speaking.

One last piece of advice: do not write as you speak, especially when formality is a must but do it the other way around and you’ll prove yourself worthy of using the language of William Shakespeare.