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English Lenguage challenges

What comments can you make about your experience learning English at university?
English lenguage is a useful tool for scientific careers and for life in general. Learning english at university has been well but it could be better. As a biochemistry student I need to learn scientific english, this one might be essential to read  papers, investigation related things and all kind of scientific stuff beyond the chilean scientific world. This last one point is very important because  sciencie is a universal lenguage and it would be understood by all the scientific community. As I'm being part of this community I need as much as possible understand all kind sources of scientific information that will show up on my career.
What about the use of blogs?
The use of blogs limits the learning of scientific english, because all I do is write about my life and, for my career this is the least important. Sometimes for examples I need to look for a book that is only in english version and read it is a tough work.
What aspects of your English need to be improved and how do you plan to do this?
I need to improve my reading comprehension and the fluent speaking due the duty of spread knowledge.
Outside the English class, how much are you using English these days? What for?
I sometimes search lyrics of my favourite songs (english) to comprehend their meaning, also when I watch movies I learn english as well.

Summarizing the whole idea I tried to say: English at my university should be more scientific rather than basic english, because basic English is already contemplate at school, so English should be more especialized, scientific english for example on my career. Complementing Scientific english with a nice talking fluently workout would be very useful indeed.

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