quinta-feira, 20 de novembro de 2014

Academic English

I was reading a post on the Internet about academic language, and I realize that my English is better when I am talking about everyday events than academic English.

When I try to understand academic English my level go down. It's like if I were a B1 level in academic English, but a Be everyday English. So I decided to take it apart, as it were a different language and learn it.

What I mean, I'll try to learn and speak academic English too. Perhaps it seems a crazy idea, but I must be able to speak two Englishes: the regular English and the academic one.

What do you think about?

Dez. 19, 2018. Post-scriptum: I am not sure anymore about those differences. Sometimes I think my academic comprehension is better than my everyday vocabulary. Maybe I spent more time trying to improve my academic language skill that it really happened.

quarta-feira, 19 de novembro de 2014

A wrong day, but not a life: you must keep going!

Last Monday, the day of my life that many things went wrong, I found myself thinking about the purpose of doing what I am used doing. But what is specifically doing the right thing?

I realize that in my way, this long track searching for something better than I aim to be, it was not the fact that I didn't do the right thing that counts much more, on the contrary, maybe things sometimes went wrong because I just didn't continue in my way.

But what can we call "the right thing"? I am quite sure that is to continue doing what we want, even if we feel that something is going wrong. Just do it, and the practice will make the rest.

Last Monday was terrible, and I knew that that quitter feeling was coming, but now I know that we cannot get off only because one day your life seems miserable. You must keep going!

What you think about my writing?

Did you have some experience like that?