My challenges with english

I’ve been learning english since I was in fourth grade. My school didn’t had english classes until that year. But I wouldn’t say that I learned english that way. I mostly learned by watching english movies and hearing american and british music. I would search for information of the bands and their lyrics, and that’s mostly how I learned.

I didn’t like english classes in primary and secondary school, because I thought that those classes were boring. Everything they did was written, and then those teachers would be mad at us because we didn’t knew how to pronounce the words!

The most difficult thing about learning english is the embarassment that you feel when you’re talking with someone who has english as his native lenguaje. That’s when you realize that you were not as good as you thought!

I think I have improved my pronunciation during the last classes, but I’m still not there. There’s a lot of work to do if I want to sound better and to not feel embarassment everytime I have to talk to an american.

I think the chilean education needs to be based on what kids or teenagers want. For example, right now all of the teen idols like Justin Bieber or the band One Direction speak in english. Teachers could take the interest of teenagers and apply them on english classes, so they can learn english faster and with something that’s entertaining for them. My sister, who is an english teacher, uses this method, and her students seem to be happy with her classes!