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Post 6 - My experience learning English at the university.

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 From what has been an intense semester, my experience with English at the university has been quite promising. In the sense that I can say that I have learned English in a different way than I was used to when I was in school. The fact that there are didactic classes, not necessarily face-to-face, makes learning more interesting and much more enjoyable. It makes you see the great interest that comes to exist on the part of one as a student, to the English that is offered. I think that face-to-face classes enhance learning much more than online classes. The truth is that I usually don´t pay much attention to the classes when they are online, because I don´t feel totally interested, since my concentration is usually lost very quickly. So, when the classes are mostly in-person they make my willingness to learn totally focused on the class. I also firmly believe that learning something, no matter what it is, should be taught properly in a classroom, where the teacher-student rela...

Post 5 - Changes to my study programme

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I think that one of the things that most of us students think about the most are certain changes that our curriculum or career itself could have, regarding many topics that do not favor us or that we do not like at all.  I´m a second year student of anthropology at the faculty of social sciences at the University of Chile. And I entered this university specifically, because it manages to cover the mentions of my interest that the career includes. Such as physical anthropology and archaeology, which has as a priority the human being and his ways of developing in the world, as a whole.   The career lasts 5 years, in which the first two are general training, and the mentions (social anthropology, physical, and archaeology) are taught at the same time or are supposed to be so, with classes such as: human evolution, hunter-gatherers, formation of society, fundamental problems of anthropology, workshops and so on. Then from the third year, one chooses the mention of his interes...