Post 10

I have to apologize cause this isn't really my 10th post, just my 9th. Its because I had not noticed the one from last monday. So, I'll do it right after this post, what its kinda confusing anyway.

My experiences while trying to learn english!
Well, I started learning english from the school, from the first year of basic education. I know that nowadays, kids start with english classes from early kindergarten, but back in the day, this was not very common (at least not for middle class/ low class population), and just a few schools had english classes. I even got to know classmates that came from other schools that didn't have english classes at all, and that happened a few times when I was like 7th grade, but that other story.

Well, at first I sucked to english classes. I didn't understand anything until, I think, 5th grade, when every kid started playing trading card games, and everybody was into yu-gi-oh! in a very rough way. There was some street sellers right outside of the school, and they had pirated decks. Everyone bought them, in fact, it was surrounded by kids everyday. The thing was that many of the cards were in english, and to try to  understand what the effect of the card was, I used a dictionary and some of the things I barely learned at school.
From then, I started to pay more attention at english classes, and it worked somewhat. I started to get better
marks and even I thought I was good at it.

When I got to the University, I realized that approving english was necessary to graduate, unless you had something to certificate you know the language, so, I had to take the classes. English classes from the university are far different from the classes I had in school. I started from level 3 and half of the classes since that were blog based. I'm not disappointed, that helped me to practise my english, and I got used to the blog system very fast. I don't know how to use blogger at its best, but I least I learned how to post properly, I think!

I'm always using english in my daily basis. I don't practice pronunciation because I don't need to speak in english regularly, so I think that is the main problem of my usage of the language. Instead of speaking, I use my knowledge of english for reading other blogs, visiting websites in english and watching videos, what allowes me to understand what I'm watching.

I think I've not learned english in full, but what keeps me in contact of the language is pure interest in things written and spoken in english. So, I'd say the key for learnig a language (at least for me) is interest. Bye!