English Language Challenges

English is an interesting language, and the most international. Most of the scientific publications are in english, including scientific studies about everything you can think of. I think that english is a pretty simple language. But I also think that in simplicity we can find the "perfection".

Regarding to my english learning experience at university, I think it was a nice experience because I could practice my pronunciation. I almost never practice my english pronunciation at home, or at any other place, and that is because the people I live with don't speak english.

Making blogs is probably a really good idea to practice our grammar and to learn more vocabulary. The making of the blog forces you to think of an idea, to finally develop it.

I always have thought that my weakest aspect in this language is the pronunciation. For me it is easy to write and read in english. If I don't know what a word means, I can discover its meaning through the context of the word in the text or sentence. 

Obviously If I want to improve my pronunciation, I need to talk in english more frequently. The experience gives you knowledge. I really would like to talk in english sometimes, because I think that to read and write in english is not enough, I have to know to pronounce correctly in this language.

I use english almost each day. That is because I like to read books in english, or watch TV series with english subtitles. For me this is like a challenge that makes me learn everyday, for example: searching words that I don't know. I also like to listen music in english. I think that this is the only source of "pronunciation practice" that I do, because I like to know the lyrics of the songs, what they mean, and try to say them by myself.

Like I said before, english is a very interesting language, based on the simplicity, but full of meaning.

Changes that I'd do to my faculty

The Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Chile is known to be one of the best of the country and latin America. Its prestige is based on the quality of the professionals that graduate from there, being this a common thing on all the faculties of this university.

But nothing is perfect. Some students say that this university, specifically the Dentistry Faculty needs some changes. And I agree with that. 

If I would had to do some changes, the first thing that I would do is kill the filler subjects.

The filler subjects are only a distraction from the "real" subjects. They are supposed to complement the learning through extra knowledge that could help us at some point, but I think that this extra knowledge doesn't need to be an obligatory subject that will take time that we could use to study another subject. Instead of filler subjects there could be some optional extra classes.

Honestly, I think the workload of study is high but adequate to the requirements that we need to be health professionals. In regard to the infrastructure, I think that we could say that it is decent. But we should have green areas to make a more friendly ambient to the students.

The food in the faculty, including their service, is pretty mediocre and overpriced. Also, we are talking about a nutritionally poor food, most of the time noodles or rice with anything. So, we have poorly fed students without time because of the filler subjects, trying to find a nice place in the faculty, because we don't have green areas.

In conclusion, yeah dude, we are in a "good" university, but at what cost? There are some things that we have to do to change this situation.