English Language Challenges

It’s hard for me learn english, I learn a little when I was in the school but for myself, never had a english class really good. I learned listening music like the Beatles and then watching movies without subtitles.  At university I had a english class again, but I’m still very bad in the language.  

The other day I was in a interview for a job in a newspaper, and they required me good english, good pronunciation, good reading and good writing.  They also were demanding me certificates showing that I know something of english. Bad news, I don’t have any certificates, and my pronunciation is really bad.

This makes me sad, I think when I finish the university, I will have the time to take a course of English at an institute. But I don’t know if the courses start at beginner level for everyone or not. I would like to take the course from an intermediate level to keep what I was learned at university.  

My partners at university, said that the best thing that we can do for learn a new language it’s travel to another country for a while. In fact, there are English courses for latino-american people in foreign parts like Australia (Latino Australia Education).

I don’t know, but I hope that in a year I can start studying English, because English is very important for the career of a journalist, you need it to find a good job in a newspaper. If I knew English, I would be more competent than other journalists who do not. Anyway, I have to learn English as quickly as possible.

The good and the bad of 2014

The good: I think the best thing of this year was my travel to Valdivia for the 21° Festival of International Cinema.  In this time, Valdivia became a city very culturally. You can see movies and listen music all day, and in the afternoons walk and see the river, the nature,  the popular market.

The movies that I wash were independents, and  the public had to classify them.The movie with the higth score in the festival  was “Los Castores” by Nicolás Molina y Antonio Luco. A documental that talks about the enviromental problem of overpopulation of beavers  in Tierra del Fuego.  Originally,  the beavers don’t live in Chile, they were introduced by the textile industry, and now they are the cause ecological catastrophe.

I put a 7.0 to this movie, I like very much. And a 7.0 to Valdivia, because I never see this city before. It’s very beautiful, the river across everyplace, the botanical garden. Other good thing that I do in Valdivia was taste the beer  make in the city called “Selva Fría”, that won a second place in a competition with all the drinks of the country.

The bad:  This year I had to finish my internship in journalism. And I don’t have idea that I will going to do. This is make me crazy, because at this time I have to know something, I had to take wherever I found, and the soon as possible. The other bad thing, really, really bad, at this time are the tests of the end of semester. I had a lot, and the worst thing is that I don’t studied yet. I’m so nervous!