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Topic: "English Language Challenges"

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 Hello everyone! In the first place, when I entered university my level of English was horrible. The level of English at my school was not very good, really, and I felt that I did not learn anything, but in university I learned more words than every year in school. Thanks to blogging, I can better understand the blogs of my colleagues, without having to translate, unless an unknown word is presented to me. Also, as I write more blogs, I can do it more fluently. What makes it most difficult for me is speaking in English, because for that you need to think fast to say a good answer, and it took me a long time to come up with it. To exercise this, I must start more conversations with people only in English, and I was thinking in the near future to read books in English from the most basic, to learn more words. Also, I would like to continue writing something similar to blogs, since they have really helped my learning. At present, I watch movies and series subtitled in Spanish, and every t

Topic: "CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME"

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Hello again! First of all, I study biochemistry at the University of Chile and there are some things in the study program that could be changed. Regarding the subjects that are part of the career, there are cases where to be able to take a subject depends on the approval of more than another subject and also, we have annual subjects that if they are not approved we are too late in the career. There are subjects that I did not feel were essential for my specific career, as in the case of Mechanics, however, I have to admit that I liked learning more, although it is true that they could eliminate some or put them as optional courses. On the teaching method, it would be more didactic if the teachers did practical classes (excluding laboratories), where we can observe the application of the theory through examples from everyday life or simple experiments that allow greater teacher-student interaction. Regarding the faculty facilities, it would be great to have more study areas and green ar