This is my second time taking a reading and writing class in the university. I think my reading comprehension skills have improved since I first took the class last year. I think it is mainly because I took 8 English literature classes this year and read a few novels, which were made into films or dramas that I like. I liked Maze Runner series the best among others. Thanks to those lectures and novels, I was able to get a better grade in TOEIC. I have not studied TOEIC, so my grades were always the same, but last month, I got the best grade in TOEIC. It made me study English more than before. Also, taking many English literature classes made me improve my confidence. I used to be afraid of speaking in English before, but now, I can speak English more actively than before. I think it is because teachers and professors would know that I am not good at English. So it is okay to be wrong because they would correct me if I am wrong. Also, the idea that it is not a shame that I am not good at English made me talk more actively than before and I think it worked. I realized that being not ashamed of one's language skill is really important when learning languages. However, I am still not good at English, so I am thinking about reading more novels and watching more movies in this winter vacation.
This is my third time keeping a blog. I really liked my first blog. I started doing blog with my friends when I was in junior high. I posted a lot of posts for three years and then I stopped doing blog as soon as my friends and I graduated from junior high and went to different high school. We started to contact each other by SNS because at that time, smart phone become popular. However, a blog was a good way to post information and my thoughts on films, so I used another blog occasionally. I think blogging is a really good way to practice writing, because it is easy to post an essay and people can exchange opinion with each other easily. I still post some of my thoughts on movies on my blog and I am planning to post some more in this vacation.
Also, by taking this course, I was able to make friends with few people. I think that is the best aspect of this course. By having some time to talk about some issues, students could make some friends and share their opinions and experiences on each topic. Besides, I got to know about a lot of things and the part about language was very interesting. I always thought that there should be one world language because it is so hard to learn foreign languages. However, I did some research and think more deeply when I was writing an essay on that topic and I realized that there are so many risks of setting one world language. That was the most impressive topic above all. I guess other students had learned a lot through reading the book and researching information for essays, too. It was fun to share each other's experiences and know about the things that I had never cared about before.
