My English language challenges

I remember I had a few classes of English in elementary school, but it wasn’t until fifth grade when I had a real class of English. I a teacher I really hated on fifth grade, but happily she left the school that year and then we met Miss Claudia, she was my teacher since sixth grade to senior year in high school so everything I know about English I have to thanks her for teaching me. She was a sweetie and even when in sixth, seventh and eighth grade every year we started learning about the verb “to be” I really love her classes. I had to admit that I love English so I was a very good student, but my class mates didn’t pay much attention and some of them went out of high school with cero knowledge about English. Even know they have problems with English in their universities.

I truly thinks that isn’t the teacher’s fault that the students doesn’t want to learn English, I mean I didn’t take a course of English in an academy or something, I just enjoyed translating songs, watching movies and tv series, hearing English a lot so then I could  put in practice everything I learn in class. That was all and I ended up with the same level of English that some of my friends –who actually toke English classes outside high school– have. If you want to learn, you are going to learn, but students right now don’t appreciate their teachers or their classes. I see that in my brother he also has classes with Miss Claudia and he knows nothing about English, I have try to teach him thousands of times and he doesn’t learn. So when the students in Chile really want to learn English, just because they want and not because “they have to”, everything would be different.

The most difficult thing for me it’s to memorize the irregular verbs and their conjugations. But it’s just practice, I also have to pronounce my “v” and “b” ‘cause you know you have to open your mouth and use your tongue differently for that sounds.  I think this year I have improved my pronunciation, ‘cause that was my weakness point in high school. About my writing, well, now I just write everything without thinking “how I have to write this word?” all the time, and it’s really fun because to write in English you have to think in English. I think that’s my secret, sometime I like to think in English so I just keep practicing with my imagination.