Learner Journal - Freya

After more than a month of study, I think I made the greatest progress in oral English, because it was difficult for me to speak a complete sentence when I came here, especially, I was always quite nervous. But now I can relatively clearly express my ideas with each other and have less nervousness. In addition, there was the experience of the first time about presentation and debate in English, which improved not only speaking but also writing and gave me a different feeling in study. The most useful things here are note-taking and summary. Those told me the importance of prevention of plagiarism, moreover, and are beneficial to my future to further study. However, no matter which aspect of learning English, practice is the most important for me both inside and outside of the classroom. I believe language learning is a process of changing and influencing unobtrusively and imperceptibly.


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In classroom, I had as much as possible to take part in each activity and followed the teachers. It was my pleasure to communicate with classmates, and I enjoyed the warm atmosphere of discussion and listening to the others’ views. On the other hand, I made a plan for study outside the classroom, like listening to BBC and reading newspaper. Also I tried to talk with people from different countries. But the low degree of fulfillment is my pivotal drawback. Day by day, it was hard to do the plan on time and then some work was delayed or not done. To me, it is the most important to combine the plan with my action. There is a saying that habits decide the character, which, meanwhile, determines the destiny. So I have to do efforts to correct this bad habit.