Hi everyone!
Here are some interesting things about me. My native language is Spanish, but since I can remember I love listening things in other language, especially in English. Maybe that's my sisters fault, she always watch series in English. As a teenager I didn't think that the English that I was learning in High School was enough, so I found myself hearing more and more English music and trying to understand what were they saying.
When I didn't know the meaning of a word the first thing that I did was translate it to Spanish but it was hard for me to remember it. Then my brother in law told me that it was better if I try to find synonyms or the meaning instead of translating, and he was right! To expand my vocabulary I start to read books that I love in English, like Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan (I know that it could sound childish, but I like them), Harry Potter series and that kind of books. In the University some of my books were in English so I also know some academic words (:
But reading isn't that easy if you don't know how to pronounce the words, so I start to watch series or movies with subtitles in English when I had the opportunity. What do you do to improve your vocabulary? Maybe you could help me to increase mine in a better way!
See you soon! XOXO
Thank you Ive. All of it are very nice and helpful experiences.
ReplyDeleteI like those books too :)
It's very helpful for me, thanks for your sharing experience with us.
ReplyDeleteIt's great! It must help me to study! I will try!! Thank you:)
ReplyDeleteI've tried to read series of Harry Potter when I was a high school student but I gave up continuing to read them soon because of long story XD haha
ReplyDeleteI love Harry Potter too! I haven't had the opportunity to read it in English, but I would love to. And Alice in wonderland and Peter Pan are not childish! Books are not childish, take for example The Little Prince :D
ReplyDeleteYou could have read a "children book" when you were a child and your perspective of the book is not the same when you read it as a teenager or as an adult, just as the same when you read a book as a teenager you may think that is the best or worst book in the world and then change your opinion when you read it again as an adult ;)
I'll try this!
ReplyDeleteGreat post and discussion too! It is great that you had such supportive and insightful people around while you were growing up :)
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