English Language Challenges

Learning English in university has been a challenge, although I have always had an ease with languages, learning to use English in an academic point of view it’s not easy at all, mostly because all the time I have contact with English is for banal things like watching a movie or listening to music. In that line, the teaching method of writing blogs periodically has helped me to improve because it´s like talking about something increasing the difficulty of the themes that we have to write about, and without noticing it, you improve a lot.  

Nowadays, where the technologies have improved impressively and the information flow has increased exponentially, our generation, that are regulars of the social networks, there are a lot of English content flying through the cloud, I would say that the majority of internet content is in English, that’s why I think that, outside the English class, we are surrounded of many information in English, from the commercials from foreign brands to all the movies and series we see in cinemas or in the computer. Nevertheless, it’s not the same being surrounded with English content than talking, listening, reading and writing all type of things in English, there is the difficulty and that’s why it’s necessary to study and learn English.

I think my abilities to talk, read and listen in English have been improved quite a lot, although, I think I still have a lot to work on, and I am convinced that if I start reading more in English, I am going to improve much more, and that is one of my tasks for 2019!

My study program

I chose the career of journalism because the job of communicating is essential in the society we live nowadays with all the new technologies and the responsibilities that come with it. In that line, I think that, in Universidad de Chile, they put a special emphasis in how to work with an ethic focus, although, I think there are some subjects that are expendable, that leads to the idea I have that this career shouldn’t last 5 years, there are many subjects that have very little workload and could be replaced with, for example, speciality subjects, which are taken in future semesters.

From other point of view, I think that the infrastructure of the university is quite good, the libraries are in good conditions and the radio rooms are comfortable, also, the audio-visual studios I have heard that are good also, I´ve never had a class where we used those studios, so I don’t have knowledge about it. Another privilege the university has to their students it’s the possibility to borrow cameras, microphones and all the instruments necessary to record anything relevant for the exercise of the journalism job.

One thing that could be changed it’s the way to do administrative formalities, I think that in the society we live in, the use of technology should be common in all this type of procedures, in that way everything could be easier for the students, teachers and functionaries.

Pink Floyd

I consider that music is essential in my life, day after day I spend at list one hour listening and enjoying it. In the world of music I would say that my favourite artist is the British man Roger Waters, mostly for his work in Pink Floyd, band where he played until 1985. I admire his job because he marked a precedent in progressive rock, albums like “Animals”, “The Wall” and of course “The Dark Side of the Moon” are pieces of art that will be listened for all the eternity, at least by me.

I got to know his art thanks to my father, who showed it to me when I was a little boy and I immediately fell in love with his music, nowadays we keep hearing his songs and getting chills every time, nothing has changed in all this years. I chose Roger Waters over the other members of the band because he is the composer of the best songs of the band and after he left Pink Floyd it wasn’t the same at all.

I got the privilege to watch him alive in 2012 and it is one of my dearest memories.