Since I was a kid I have studied in a bilingual school but it never made sense to me because I would never learn english in my classroom. My english teacher was very busy with her favorite student so I search every way to learn english myself.
The first option that I choose was to read some books! Then I went to the library to get some books so I could began to read. When I got home I took a dictionary ,english trough spanish, and I began to read. Later I noticed that this way that I was trying to learn English was not efficient because it was slow and obviously I was not able to ear the pronouncement of the words and I was needing too to learn how to speak it. So I took another way.
Since kids, my mom was a freak for movies… she bought every movie for us. For that time the movies were on cassettes so my second option was to choose the ones that have had subtitles. Everyday I was sitting in my home watching a different movie with a dictionary. Then came the DVD’s ,that were more useful because Americans sometimes talk very fast and it was confusing for me that I was trying to learn. So my decision was to watch the movie in english, the subtitles in spanish so I was able to match the words and if I did not knew the word then i would search it in the dictionary. After the time passes with the practice I was not using the dictionary just when it was a word like very strange or rare. then i was able to read almost everything that I like.
Finally since I study here in the “Colegio” everything is easier because I know english. Sometimes the professor the only language that he or her talk is english and the books are in english I know that is hard for those who do not want to learn english or just they do not Know for any reason because english is a universal language. Now I feel comfortable choosing any professor without worrying that I will not be able to understand him. From this experience i understand that you must help yourself when no one else will.
