Level 4 >> Post 10 (week 13): English Language Challenges

Hello everyone. This will be my last post, I hope you like it.

My experience with English was good when I was little, since I always liked music in English, but over the years I lost the motivation to learn the language in depth. This is because I did not have good English teachers and I did not receive enough motivation. Also because I did not like the American accent I heard on TV. This accent I only liked in music.

I think that learning English opens up many important possibilities in the workplace and personal. Apart from being able to travel and to know different countries, being able to understand and handle a language like English reinforces the cognitive abilities of each one when expressing oneself.

During college it has been a bit boring, because I started at a very low level, since we had previous knowledge to the difference of my classmates. Over time I realized the importance of knowing the language for the professional career. I came across many texts in English that I should understand and apply in my learning.

For the next few years I intend to devote special attention to my speaking, since that is the most difficult thing for me but I think it is also the most fun part. After handling the speaking I will enter the grammar, the most boring part for me, but nevertheless, very necessary to learn.

By having more time next year, I think it will be easier to devote special interest to English, maybe attending a course or practicing with my friends. I hope this course has been very helpful for me.

See you soon!

LEVEL 4 / POST 9

Hello. There are many aspects that I would change in my career...

In the first place, I consider that the theoretical subjects are really bad. The students know very little about art history because the themes start from modern art and not all the previous history is considered, so the knowledge is very basic for a university artist. I think one of the big deficits is theoretical knowledge, which is directly related to artistic making. This is increased by the lack of a library available to all students. There are collections that not every student has access to, which I find embarrassing coming from such an important university. Nobody imagines that in a faculty there is no library, it seems absurd.

Another aspect of the mesh of my career, plastic arts, is the lack of specialized workshops in photography, video, "new media" or design. The career focus is still too traditional, with several traditional painting and sculpture workshops without addressing contemporary problems. It feels like returning to the past, in the worst sense.

Finally, related to the above, is the little implication of the visual arts with other disciplines. knowledge is very segmented, being that when dialoguing with other disciplines art is further enhanced.

In terms of infrastructure, I consider it a rather precarious space but with many possibilities. It is very broad and I think we should appropriate the spaces that we have (and that private universities do not have). I think this is the only thing that we have left and we have to take care of it.