Reflective Blogging

In this 2nd semester I'd like to improve my listening skills. Indeed I want to focus attention more on radio programs, which are not so easy to understand, because of the colloquial language and the idiomatic expressions that are used and that need to be learned for a successful understanding.

Moreover, I need to improve my writing. Business letters and tecnical language, such as for example, that of politics, science, and journalism, are what I strive for . I think I have already started to achieve this goal, through the task of last week, when I had to choose a blog, through "Tecnorati", and justify my choice and advise the blog i found to my class mates. Here is the url: http://www.vinography.com/. If someone want to learn something more about wine, but through experts' language, here is good example to consider.

Then, I realize I need to improve my speaking, especially I aim to learn more colloquial language, as I am aware that it is not easy to understand English native speaker, when they use idioms. Nevertheless, I hope to use the language with more precision and I take as example the news language.

In order to achieve these three goals, I need, firstly, to find helpful radio Websites, where I can follow go lives. Then, I should try to speak with more accuracy during the Thursday language, in order to speak as journalists of BBC and CNN. Last but not least, I have to find a way to write about specific topics, such as for example about politics, economy and science, in order to become more familiar with tecnical language.

As you can see, I am still at the beginning of my language challenge. I have done only something to improve my writing and reading, through the wine blog, I found in "Tecnorati", but I need my teacher's help to achieve the other two goals.