It is May now and that is something I have a hard time to believe. The time has just flied by this Spring and soon it's the end of all my courses. I have been happy with my English course, even though there have been times with much work. The group discussion I held went well, my essay is okay, I'm pretty happy with my poster, the Prezi-presentation was fun and overall I think I've been active in discussions we have had in small groups. I've talked to many new people and I have always looked forward to these lectures.
In my spare time I don't speak English everday. The English I hear is when I watch movies or series, I have subtitles in English when I watch movies and series I usually watch without. Almost all the movies and series I watch are spoken in English, just to be clear. When reading novels I read in three different languages: Finnish, Swedish and English. Novels in English I don't read as much as in the other languages, but every now and then. I enjoy reading in English and don't find it that hard. Although I must confess: I don't read classics in English, especially the ones written in old English style. Albert Camus novel The Outsider is a novel I've read in English, but the language was clear, the novel wasn't that long and I read it in Finnish a bit before. When I was Inter-railing last summer with my boyfriend we stopped by a bookshop in almost every state we were in. We bought some of the cheap classics in soft-cover, usually by the "Penguin Classics". I read The Secret Garden and my boyfriend read The Prince by Machiavelli. So now when I think about it I have read some classics, but I could do that more. Especially novels like Dracula, which are long and not written in Modern English.
How about spoken English then? I sometimes talk a few sentences in English with my roomies, when telling a joke or something. So I can almost everyday see the impact of English language at home, even though we mostly speak Swedish. It's not pure Swedish, though. One of my roomies spends most of his days in front of the computer, watching different videos and series in English. So he can be really fluent in English at times. I myself am pretty comfortable in speaking in English and how my pronunciation sounds like, although when I'm nervous I stumble up on some words. But my problem is my vocabulary, which is not that wide (This last sentence contains two words that I had to look up). I can see some changes and expansions with my vocabulary the last months, but it is not that big of a change.
In overall English is an important language to me. Besides my closest languages - Finnish and Swedish - I use English often than other languages and that is why I want to work on it. I have another blog I try to write only in English and nowadays I only watch movies with English subtitles. Atleast I try, since there are some movies where I can only choose as a subtitle one of the nordic languages. Why is it like that?
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