Friday, November 24, 2017

My experience with the English language began almost 15 or 16 years ago when I was in preschool where I learnt how to say "octopus", what I mean is that I didn't learn anything, where I actually learnt useful things was in video games and in TV watching the WWE (WWF back in that day).

My first challenge with English was the words like "do", "are" and "is" in the question form. After that I have had some trouble with the "mind translation", in other words: thinking something in Spanish and translate it to English, because there were many words I didn't (and still don't) know.

Recently I have been thinking in English when I have to make something in English, so that "mind translation" problem is no longer a problem for me, but a new challenge rose: "spelling problems", because as now I am thinking in English, I am also writing "the way it sounded in my head", in other words I am writing like an American, and they write like shit, that's why they tend to do many "spelling bee" contests.

The blogs in the university I have found them very amusing because we write about the things we like and that is a rather easy task (at least for me) and also help us to know more about each other.
I don't think it is a good activity because is very basic, but it is good for us because we're not studying English.

I would like to improve my accent because as my dream is to get to California, I would not like to get there speaking like Lucho Jara.


This year (because I didn't do it before) I am starting to speak in English in my mind when I am playing a video game or watching something in English, but I don't speak in English when is not necessary because we live in a Spanish speaking country, and speaking in English in Chile for no reason is stupid, the same way I think is disrespectful to speak other language than the native language of the country you are in public, like Chinese people do when you enter in their stores.

3 comments:

  1. At least Lucho Jara speak like that cause he never learned english (I think xd)... but Sofia Vergara xdd she created her how pronunciation for the language haha

    ReplyDelete
  2. It's really impressive that you can think in English, when I try it I usually fail becuase I mess up the order of the phrases

    ReplyDelete
  3. I don't think that you speak as bad, maybe is because i do it xd

    ReplyDelete