A brief introduction

Hello if there is anyone reading to me!

This is the first time I’m writing a blog in English, or maybe it will be only a personal diary, I’m not sure yet as my English level is not enough high as I pretend, but this is the main reason to write daily or weekly: to improve my English level.

During this quarantine I’ve been listening to lots of podcasts in English, at first I didn’t understand a 50% of what they were talking about, some accents are really hard to understand, in my case, I can’t understand well the British accent, but my husbands does it very well!

I want to prepare myself for the First Certificate Cambridge Exam, I’ve never tried it before as I’ve been speaking English since 2012 when I moved to Ireland, and from then I’ve been speaking a little bit, not as much as I’d like, because it’s hard in my country to find people with who to speak in this language.

Do I really need this language certificate? I’m not sure, but it’s obvious that the global economy is going to change, moreover in Spain, we have a big amount of debt with another countries, so it’s very important to be prepared for future jobs.

Currently I have a job, I haven’t started yet because just a week before of all this chaos I left my before job to begin in the current one, but then we had to stay at home for the COVID-19.

Even I started to study German but it’s really hard for me to get concentrated, so I’ve decided to study as much as possible English, prepare for the Cambridge exam, and maybe I’ll study some German words, a little bit of grammar just to know how to introduce myself and speak some phrases.

This year I’ll try to have an immersed as possible into English, this is how I really learned English in Ireland.

I’ve been studying English since I was a child, my parents used to bought to me English classes, the typical installment you buy in the kiosk every week.

Then at school I studied English too, but it was different, they way we learn English in Spain is boring and slowly, we learn grammar but our teachers talk to us in Spanish, so it’s a weird way to learn a language, is not a full immersion, maybe the new generations are so fortunate that their teachers speak English all the time! Or even they speak a good English!

So my goal is to write, speak, read and listen as much English as possible.

How do you study a foreign language? Do you have some tips? I’d love to read you!

Have a great week and keep safe at home!

Regards,

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