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I'm Sebastian, I'm 22 years old and I study composition at the Faculty of arts of the Universidad de Chile.
My weakness in English is speaking, because I should know more words. When I speak, I try to think in English, but I get confused with German, because I know more words in German than in English and if I don't know any word, inmediatelly the word in German goes to my mind... I hope that I could get separate in my mind those languages, because I cannnot do that like when I write. And I think that my strength is the grammar, because it's similar with the German grammar (a few things).
To practice listening, I watch movies in English, for example. Even so it is not easy for me to understand English in the different accents, for example, It is very difficult for me to understand the English from India, but the British English is more familiar for me.
For this semester, I hope that I would be better by speaking and know more words to not confuse German and English...

LEVEL 4 - Second term 2015

My experience with the blogs

Well, I found this experience good, but, for my, was a little boring xd because I don't like writting about what I think or what like. That's a very personal opinion. Even so, this activity is very original to learn a language, because you can reading the post of the other studients and you can make a "online interaction" in english with them too... When I started to learn german, I had writting anything in a paper, and after reading that to the class. We didn't give a opinion about what we wrote, then we hadn't a dialog in the class... With the blogs, we can do that... Other thing that I found important of this experience is when I write in english, I must thinking in english, and not trying to translate. That's is very important to manipulate a language. When I began to speak german, I traslated all. That's was not good because something I maked grammatical mistakes or nobody could understand what I meant. For this reason, I found that's important, because when I'm writting in english, I'm thinking in english. Even though, when you can writting fluent in english is more easy reading in english, I think... (that I i find that writting be important to learn a other laguage, not mean that for my is not boring, becuase even so is boring for my xd).

I find that this semester I could be better by writting, because I felt me relax and I could thinking faster in english as before. 

I think that maybe in the future we could make a video in english about any topic. For example, a cooking video. I find that interesting and funny! and we could upload to youtube (or to a blog), and the studients could to give a opinion about that too... I don't know xD  

My favorites movies

Today, I'm going to talk about movies.

I have two favorites movies: one for them is "Forrest Gump".I like this movie. because show to you a way of life very special, where the humility that's important. Forrest could get his things, because he didn't have a propose for the life or something similar, but for two reason I think: 1.- he did the things because he wanted doing those 2.- because for him the little things were important like the big things. That's why he told his histories without exaggerate, I think.
And the other movie that I like is "The pursuit of Happyness". What I find very cool for this film is that Chris Gardner (the protagonist) shows to his son that the life could be hard even thought you should to be happy. Chris had a hard life, very difficult who he had to exert himself to get a better life for him and his son. This thing caught immediately my attention when I saw this film, because I think that's important to be always happy without be important the problems in the life, and because Chris maked a special effort to get something in his life.... I haven't a favorite genere, or actor, or director. Normally, I watch a movie when someone tell me about a movie, which it watched before; or I watch the trailer of a movie, and when I find good the trailer, I watch the movie... so easy xd... But I like better movies about mystery, or movies when you after are pensive watching the movie. For this reason I like those two movies :)