- Nome: Adriano Santos Reis
- Idade: 24 years
- Escolaridade: superior incompleto - Letras
- Tempo de aprendizagem: 8
- Narrativa coletada por Francisco Figueiredo
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- Since my childhood I have dreamed of being a person who speaks English
fluently. I loved English. I thought that I would find few difficulties to learn this language. Nowadays, I am 24 years old and I think that I have more difficulties than before.
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- Actually, in my English classes there is almost no problem for me to understand English teachers when they are speaking. But in my speaking and writing I have all the difficulties. I think that I still think in English based on Portuguese grammatical structure, I do not know exactly. I had my first formal contact with English at the secondary school in a public school.
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- Before this, I always thought of studying English in a specialized school, but in my homeland, Balsas- MA, there was not this kind of school at that time. Then I studied alone some things that I had enjoyed, mainly vocabulary. At that time, the focus that the teacher emphasized was grammar, mainly and almost always the verb to be. Although I liked English, these classes were very boring.
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- Seven years ago, I worked in a language school called Mnemosystem and I liked the method of teaching used there. The focus of learning was conversation. Then, when I stopped working there, I began to study English for the first time in a specialized center. Since the first class the student practiced conversation. There were CDs that the students would use. We would listen to each sentence and repeat it many times.
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- To improve my English I have always listened to songs, trying to understand the lyrics, and I have watched films, trying to understand what the characters said without reading the subtitles.
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- Five years ago, when I went to my homeland, I studied in a vacation English course with an American teacher called Christopher. It was good, because it was the first time that I had contact with a native speaker. This experience gave me courage to study English more.
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- Nowadays I study English at University, but I am not fluent in this language yet. The difficulties in learning English discouraged me to improve it. Today I like English less than before, and now I am only motivated, not determined to learn English. At the beginning of my learning process it was the opposite.
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