To know English when you go to university it`s very important. In an anthropological studies area, books usually are written in English, and if you don`t have the enough knowledge, you will lose a lot of time translating them with a dictionary or something like that. I can do it, of course, but you would never spend the same time. In Universidad de Chile there are a lot of people that studied in good high schools, so teachers used to think like everybody knows English, and when you are not, it`s a big problem.
It`s a problem because the program to study English in the university isn`t for people that don`t know English, and it sound stupid, but it`s the truth. After all, although you take the four levels, you will never be so good to be like your classmates just following the program, and sometimes it`s necessary to pay a lot in an English institute. Evidently, when you are taking an English course you can practice what you know, but sometimes you really didn`t get a good education in high school. So, can you practice a language that you don`t know? I believe that this is the main problem of the English in Universidad de Chile. You can try to participate in classes and try to speak in English, even though you do it like Tarzan; in fact, that is the idea, but is normal to be embarrassed too, when you know that you look ridiculous in front your classmates.
On the other hand, I think that the English teachers are relaxed than the other, and after a lot of daily serious classes, it`s feel really good a break.
In short, I believe that English courses are good, but it`s necessary to think in especial classes for people that really need it, where you can learn about grammar, texts structure, and that kind of things. Maybe it would be great to have courses not by this kind of levels, because if you check the people in a same class, they have a very different knowledge. It would be important to have classes about our real English problems, such as to write, to speak, to read, etc.
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