ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHALLENGES

I started this subject in level two, so I think that I have a little experience. I think it was especially good this last level, I don’t know why, maybe because this year I need read a lot of papers in English and this have been a good complement that make me have more practice not just in the English IV class. I found that the level two and three was less demanding: the level two was more in spoken in Spanish, maybe too much. And in level three was difficult understand the accent of the teacher, but not too much for what I didn’t can learn a little. 

This last class has been more constructive, more demanding, and I think that this go well with my form of learning.

About the use of blogs, I think it was a good manner to practice more about putting our ideas in order and being able to write for what other person can read and comment our post. 

I need to improve my ability to think in English and, after, to be able to express them to others. In fact, also, I think that I should speak a lot in English to improve my pronunciation. Sometimes I can understand so good when Chileans speak en English, but the accent and idiom from USA and UK speakers is weird to me. Maybe, I could improve this just leaving to watch movies subtitled and trying to understand just with the sound. But I think this isn’t sufficient, so I have thought take other classes outside to obtain a major level in English. 

Outside the English class I need to use constantly my English, mainly reading scientific papers and books in the great majority of my other classes. But also, I use my English for listening music and reading novels and books no related with the university.  

My Future Job

I am doing a major in archaeology, because I like to understand “why the people do what they do”, and I discovered in the first year of the university that there is a very important thing in the mind of the people, which many times work in an unconsciously manner: the weight of the past. Sometimes we don’t understand why we are doing this thing of this manner and why the other manner is less preferable. Here is the past, far away on time or very recently, if we understand how and what is this “form or manner” to do and think, we will be able to anticipate what is the thing that we need to do or what is the one we don’t, in a determinate context. 

In my perspective, is a challenge to understand these manners to do things in the past, because this can give us the opportunity to answer the question about: who are we? 

For this major there are a many works that I can do. I can be an analyst in some materiality or class of artifacts, working in a laboratory. Or maybe I can go and participate of the findings and the excavation process of a site. This last way can be divided in two areas: the academic research and the environment impact studies. The first way produces papers and information just for the knowledge. The second way, extract the cultural artifact from the places that are going to be use to put on a building construction. I don’t know why, but I could and would like to do all of these jobs, and I think that is more important the workmates you’ll have than the job itself, at least I think in this way today.  

If I was asked in a job interview about my strengths and weaknesses, I would say that my first strength is my high responsibility and my weakness is that I am too perfectionist, and this can make me be very taken of my own ideas.