My experience learning English at University

It was a good experience. I only took the last level of English at the university, but it was a good occasion to refresh my English. Regrettably we lost too much classes, and I myself couldn't be there the whole class during the last month or so. Nevertheless when we had classes I had a good time and I think my English did in fact improved. Particularly I feel more comfortable writing (due to the training in writing blogs) and can talk more fluently, thank to the exercises we did.

The most important aspect that I think I need to improve is talking. I can read and understand fairly easily, but when it comes to talking I feel very insecure and can't express myself fluently. For the moment I don't have any plans on how to improve this. Naturally the best way to do that is simply talking a lot with a native speaker, and you can find a tandem partner easily to do that. But for the moment I'm investing time in other matters and English will have to wait.

Anyway nowadays I only use English to read, manly scientific literature. With my current level I can read some novels too, but I don't find too much pleasure doing so, because it's still a big effort to understand good literature: there are always a lot of words that I don't know, but above all the idioms and the idiosyncratic expressions are very tough to understand. In the future, if I got time, I will begin with some authors than are simpler and then gradually progress to the difficult ones. But for the moment, I'm afraid, my english practice will be reduced to watching english films.