Learning English
Advanced 09
Name: Jorge Luis Chávez Barboza.
My Experience Before and After Learning English English is a very important language. Nowadays, it is recognized as a universal language. Opportunities to travel around the world, to know about other cultures or to get a scholarship to study abroad are some of the advantages of learning English. At first, learning English was difficult to me in high school, but when I began to understand it through ICPNA, I realized English is easy if I relate what I learned with my social environment such as my friends, series, movies, books and so on. So, when I look over my life, I notice a big change from before to after learning English. My first contact with English was in high school, but I consider this phase before learning English because I was not interested in learning English at all. Along my five years studying, I just learn some basics of this language, but I am not able to speak fluently. Besides, in my two first years of university, I was exposed to English through books, magazines or TV that I couldn’t understand with my poor English language. Moreover, I like to listen to English music in my free time, but I couldn’t understand any phrase of these songs, even I couldn’t sing any word. Today, I listen to many rock bands, all in English, and I listen every day, sometimes for over seven hours a day. I am constantly aware of my success with English because I can understand the lyrics of the songs I listen to. And that gives me pleasure and satisfaction for many hours every day. In addition, I had to read many science books in English. Some of them were still not available in Spanish. My knowledge of English allowed me to get in touch with some themes of my career. Without English, I would not have read the books because there are no Spanish translations of them. When I learned English well enough to read science books, I discovered that English is a very important tool for learning science. To conclude, taking a
Name: Jorge Luis Chávez Barboza.
My Experience Before and After Learning English English is a very important language. Nowadays, it is recognized as a universal language. Opportunities to travel around the world, to know about other cultures or to get a scholarship to study abroad are some of the advantages of learning English. At first, learning English was difficult to me in high school, but when I began to understand it through ICPNA, I realized English is easy if I relate what I learned with my social environment such as my friends, series, movies, books and so on. So, when I look over my life, I notice a big change from before to after learning English. My first contact with English was in high school, but I consider this phase before learning English because I was not interested in learning English at all. Along my five years studying, I just learn some basics of this language, but I am not able to speak fluently. Besides, in my two first years of university, I was exposed to English through books, magazines or TV that I couldn’t understand with my poor English language. Moreover, I like to listen to English music in my free time, but I couldn’t understand any phrase of these songs, even I couldn’t sing any word. Today, I listen to many rock bands, all in English, and I listen every day, sometimes for over seven hours a day. I am constantly aware of my success with English because I can understand the lyrics of the songs I listen to. And that gives me pleasure and satisfaction for many hours every day. In addition, I had to read many science books in English. Some of them were still not available in Spanish. My knowledge of English allowed me to get in touch with some themes of my career. Without English, I would not have read the books because there are no Spanish translations of them. When I learned English well enough to read science books, I discovered that English is a very important tool for learning science. To conclude, taking a