Learning English: My Experience

The Englishman's first teacher that I had was in the primary school. I had a teacher woman who had about 65 years old. I remember that the classes were very bored and large. We were behaving very badly and in an opportunity to the teacher it gave a nervous attack him by fault our, so that during the rest of year we remained without teacher of English. In general, the first years I didn´t learn almost nothing, just the names of some animals and the verb to be, jaja.

After, in my other school was worse, in fact two years I reproved the subject. I remember that we had a book of English that called “Your Turn” and it was very boring but it had something good that was the stories of the book and the songs, jaja I remember that always we were singing in the class, really was a joke. Also, in the school we had French classes, those who were much more entertained, in fact the French language it was much easier to learn and interesting, in fact today I would like to learn also French apart from English.

I remember that of all my teachers, just I remember to Madmoiselle Estrella Méndez that was our teacher of French, she was really a “madame” , she was very elegant and refined and very nice and maternal with us, I remember that almost always she was using a beret that was giving her a very French style.

For me, the French language is easier for to learn that the English language maybe for the terrible experiences that I had in the school, jaja. In fact, before beginning to study in the University my English was very poor. In general, everything what I have learned has been from seeing movies, listening to music and reading sometimes some things in English, but specially thank you to Mr. Simon that He has been the first teacher to whom I him deal and he is the only person with whom I can practice English, in fact his classes are very playful and entertaining and I feel that the classes have been very successful for me, well such as it says the saying “more it is worth learning late that never”………jaja

The times of school................

Well, first I go away to presenting, my name is David Briones. I have 22 years old. I was born a 8 of January of 1986 in Santiago, in fact all my life I lived in this city. I am the second one of three brothers. I have two sisters, Denisse and Dalila, those that I love very much because always we have been united. I live with my two parents, my mum Carmen and my dad Nicolás, and also with my dog Tony. Nowadays we live in Maipu but before I lived in Santiago District, where I studied the primary and the secondary school before of enter to University to study the career of Geography, in fact when I changed house I stopped seeing some friends and even today I miss my old neighborhood, but maybe the worse thing was that I didn´t see nevermore to my friend that lived near to my house, I remeber that always I went to house her and played with she.

I can say that the best period was the school. I remember when I was in the secondary school I smoked my first cigarettes and I had my first drinking session, ja was wonderfull and very cool. I remember that played soccer everyday with my classmates with a poor plastic ball in the playground "Calama" and often with some friends we were absconding from the school and were going to some places in Santiago Centre such as Eurocentro, Bustamante and Almagro Park, the neighborhood San Diego and the University of Chile Station of Subway and some times we were going to coffee with legs, jaja. I remember that when could was buying myself books in San Diego Street, in this time me much liked to read and other times when I didn´t have money It was selling them.

I remember that I liked to play voleiball in the school and ping - pong, in fact with my friends we were passing entire evenings playing ping - pong in the school. We were spending very well, in fact even I go sometimes to the neighborhood San Diego but almost all bookshops have closed or have gone away are almost dead this places, only it stays the shop "Orange Discs" whose owner an old man was recording discs from vinilos, in fact even I have this cassettes jaja...........................