How We Learn

20/5/2013

We all know that studying can be tough. In the higher intermediate class, we have been finding out about different learning styles, and how we learn. In this section of the blog, you can share your experience of a time that you have learned something, and how you did it. This could really help other students to do the same. Please add your post below.

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mohammed

20/5/2013 01:51:29 am

Higher Intermediate 1- Eddy

20/5/2013 02:05:05 am

I am talking about my experience when I decided to learn about civil engineering. I have been studying civil engineering for around 4 years. I think this is one of the most important careers in the world because you can work anywhere and you can build and create a lot of impressive things, if you imagine something, you will be create it.
I love my career because you can help a lot of people and you can improve the infrastructure of your city also your country too.
If you like to create and calculate things, I think this is your best choice for your career because you can work in anything. For example, you can work in a big company of aqueducts or a company of structures, roads or manage work, etc.
I advice you this is a good election to improve your culture, because maybe you need to travel around the world and open your mind.

Iñaki Baraibar - Higher Intermediate 1

20/5/2013 02:07:45 am

I am now nine months in the UK. When I arrived in England, I started in lower intermediate level at Kaplan International Colleges. I remembered my first day at the school, it was complicated because I didn’t know anyone in the building but also I didn’t speak very good English. However, when the principal at the school said my name I felt confident and I said ‘’ I am Iñaki, I am from Spain’’

I started in lower intermediate but I only stayed in this class for two weeks, I got a high score in my first test, the reason was because I worked hard when I arrived. Now I am still working hard but it is different, also the level now is much harder than lower.

I like the method that Kaplan uses to learn English. I think when we learn something we need to get involved with everything that it will be helpful for us. For example, learning about different topics like, education, science, and social problems. I think this is important because we know about different things about the culture, people and how to live in another country and we not only learn about grammar and vocabulary.

When you pass to Higher Intermediate or Advanced level is more important your fluency when you speak or your knowledge about how to describe one situation, topic, something like this. Obviously, it does depend the people but usually people want to speak better and try to understand when someone speaks with you. In my opinion, speak fluency and accurate is better than if you have a perfect grammar but you are not able to communicate with someone in the street, or in a shop. But it is up to you.

Finally, I want to said you, you should enjoy your time and you have to study and try to learn a lot of things, but also the social life helps you to do this, so don’t worry about everything that you learn. If I were you, I try to make a balance between everything that you learn and the social life that you are going to have if you want to learn abroad.

Thanks for your attention. I hope my information can help you.

Iñaki Baraibar

Fluffy

20/5/2013 02:07:58 am

The topic is kind of hard to explain because everybody has their own opinion on how to study and improve their skills! Well my way of studying is that I always partcipate in everything the best way possible ! Even the activities that is not important or I don't understand it. I try harder to understand it !on the other hand, you can use it everyday in your language skills talking to people so it sticks in your brain.
Nevertheless, never say never to anything you learn you may need it one day. Keep practicing just keep it smooth, easy and keep telling your self you can do it !
In my opionin you need to belive in yourself, if not your kinda gonna get behind in learning new things. My advise is to overcome the fear of mistake, if you don't make any mistakes or learn from your mistakes you won't learn anything in class or in REAL life !

Steve

20/5/2013 02:15:52 am

So my topic is go karts, there are a lot of nationals competitions in all countries..

I learned it because my passion is Formula one and go karts are the best school to improve your driving. My goal was to be a pilot.

I learned it with my father first, it was in a parking near his work, but if you want to progress, it’s better to start competitions early, with a good coach.

My method was to run every day and cycling to keep a good physical condition, because in few races I had to stayed 2 hours in the kart.

The best method is running and practicing driving, but I had not enough money to drive.

When I started having success I started also having less money and finally I stopped.

Passion helped me to learn, so I think if something interest you it will be easier to learn.

I did everything different, because I always needed money, it’s an expensive sport. But if you want to improve the best way is to have, as I said having a good physical condition, concentration, endurance and so much more.

Lots of people admitted that I had talent, but also not enough money.

Faisel HI1

20/5/2013 02:16:44 am

Without doubt there is nothing impossible in life so, we are living to reach our aims in our life by doing many things to achieve whatever we want.

Nobody can deny that life is very hard if we do nothing to make it easier. Studying abroad is one of the most difficult challenges. I am going to talk about my experience studying English in UK.

I need to improve my English to be good enough to study at university in UK. At the beginning it was difficult for me because I did not know the culture, people and laws. 6 months later I am getting used to keeping touch with other people and immersing myself in their culture which is completely different to my culture because of the religion.

I have really improved my English by many methods. Firstly, I am trying to communicate with native speakers and make good relationships with my teachers at school to find them helper whenever I want. Secondly, One of the most efficient way to learn a language is to read as much as you can to know how you can use the vocabularies and rise your grammar knowledge. Moreover, you have to listen to anything which help you to understand people while they are speaking such as: movies, radio, TVs …

I am taking my first step to building my future and I found it lenient because am always urge myself to do better and I found many friends who help me in my studying. Also, you have to be enthusiastic and not loose your control and leave everything.

I advise you to study overseas if you want to because there is nothing impossible if you want to achieve something. Work as much as you can to live better in the future.

Good luck :*

Johann

20/5/2013 02:22:53 am

The best experience in my life was when I studied Finances and International Trade, it was the best decision that I could choose because in this career I was learned that the life is not easy and all thing in the life you can obtain if you work very hard.

The first years of college were a waste for me because I only thought of living my life my way and did not think about my future, I was always late to class I was not paying attention to the teacher, in other words, I was the person who knew all, but a person who knew, was that changed my life and made me see how wrong I was, I owe her my successes.

Over time I learned to value things, that everything in the life is not money and that the really important things have always been in front of me. I am always thinking about my future was the hardest I've done until this day, so I am in effort every day to be the best, due to that I take the decision to study English abroad, because in my work I did made a mistake lose a lot of money to my boss that I end up I pay, I will not go into details, but the mistakes it teaches.

The humility, the work and the grace in God are the only quality that will take you to success.

Charia (Higher Intermediate 1)

20/5/2013 02:24:34 am

When I was in high school, I had to study badminton because it was a subject in the high school. I had played badminton before but I hadn't known how to play it in the right way as I just played it with my friends. First day I thought it was very difficult to learn the basic things about Badminton by myself so I asked my friends to teach me. They told me about tips and everything that helped me improve my skill. After the class, we went to Badminton gym to practice what we had learnt for two hours and we had a small competition between friends.
From the hard practicing, I got top marks from my teacher in Badminton examination at school. I was really happy with the feedback. I thought the key for my successful Badminton was that I kept practicing again and again, if you can't do it in the first time you can ask for help and don't give up.

Mohammad (higher intermediate 1)

20/5/2013 02:29:09 am

I want to write about my experience in fixing computers if you have a virus in it and I learned this because I faced it many times .

When I was in high school I started to search about these problems and I look up the people who faced this problems and I read all of these problems so I have got a lot of information about virus and how can virus penetrate the computer.

After that I expand my experience by reading about how to fix this problems and I tried to work in it not just read it. The first time I failed to fix my computer but I didn't give up and I tried again and again ...... .

In the end I was successful to repair my laptop and this experience has helped me to know many things about computers so now I can fix all problems .

I wish to complete in this way and I advise everyone have this problem to try and see what is the problem in trying to search in the internet and try to solve it.

Saud HI1

20/5/2013 02:34:29 am

It depends on what you study and how you should do it. Here I’ll tell you about my way of studying English Langue. To kill two birds with one stone, you should organize your time to study and have a fun. So let’s begin with what I do to learn English Language.

First, in the class I concentrate on the new words and how to pronounce them correctly, I think this the best way to practice because you will hear it and say it. It’s better to write a note about the subject of the day, that’s going to remind you about what have done in the class. Taking a rest is a good idea after a long day at class, so take enough time to relax and do some thing different than studying.

What you do will help you to be fresh and never get bored, think about it. You shouldn’t take more than two hours reviewing what you had taken in the class. Try to take part in different events, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. The class is not the only source of language; you need to socialize your self with native speakers to get the maximum benefit. Finally, if you get time to read the next day lesson, it could help you to focus on the subject.

Kelly Kurmen Higher Intermediate 1.

20/5/2013 02:37:00 am

It could be difficult to recognise a good learning experience when you just have one. But, anyway I’ll be happy to tell you how I’ve been doing so far.

At the beginning studying abroad can be a complete challenge. You have to leave behind your family, friends, things you are used to and even your favourite food. For me to forget those little things we used to miss a lot of our country can be easy if we keep busy. Doing different activities have helped me so much and it may be the most entertaining method.

I never used to go to museums or to go to libraries but having the chance to visit them in another country is quite interesting. It helps not just with your English, it enriches the previous knowledge you have about the country you are in you will learn more about their history and culture and that is really important. Trust me. Going to clubs or restaurants makes me get involved with the people and also with the language, knowing people from other countries who don’t speak my mother tongue (even if it’s unbelievable) I improved my speaking and listening skills.

So give it a chance to go out and try the activities your city has to offer!

Eric Valoz de Mendonca

20/5/2013 02:38:07 am

There a lot of things that you can learn. Some things might be difficult but nothing is impossible to learn. You just have to practice.
When I was a kid I really liked music and instruments, especially the guitar, and my brother was a very good guitarist. I watched him playing I wanted to learn too but I thought it was difficult. I always asked my brother to teach me but he didn’t have enough time to spend teaching me. I asked my mom to sign me up in a music school but she thought that was waste of money. So I tried to learn by myself. I started to watch some tutorial videos and to read some music magazines. At first was very difficult. I got upset a lot of times and I even thought about quitting. So my brother said to me that it was not easy for him as well and that he had to practice for a long time to play how he plays nowadays. So I continued practicing two hours per day at least. When I couldn’t do some accords I tried to not get upset because I knew that it’d just disturbed my progress. I was very dedicated, so now I can play guitar very well.
If you want to learn something, whatever what you wish, you should be dedicated because probably will not be easy. You should practice and try to not get upset if you can’t do something because it will only disturb your progress and you don’t need to be in a hurry to learn something because normally you have enough time to get successful. Those things helped me to learn how to play guitar, so I think that advices might help you too.

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