martes, 17 de noviembre de 2009

My experience learning English at the university.



I iniciated the english course this year. I started with the level 3, in this level there were too many people of different years, and I went only with two classmates of my year. The course costed me in a beginning, because there were people that to spoke very well, for that reason the teacher sometimes speaking only with the more advanced. But with the time, I went released me and participating more. Apart of that, the evaluation form of the course 3 didn't have quiz, only the teacher did an oral test that consisted in to prepare a disertation about one subject of our career.
After that, I passed to the actual level 4, where I am with more classmates. In this level, in general I feel that  there is a similar level of knowledge, although always there are people too much advanced. The actual course has been too much demanding, because we have had regulary quiz, and in the class we should to speak always, whereas in the previous course only who wanted spoke.
In short, comparing both experiences, in my opinion to learn english at the university, in the first place has been a good experience, because permit us is practicing the idiom the constant form. However, in spite of the method of the class that consisted in exercise and theory, I feel that I don’t have learned too much new content, but with the practice, and the blogs writting I have learned to speak and to write better. And in the second place, I believe that a point that is not very exploted in the class is to listen english, but this is based in my personal experience, because my mean weakness is to understand the english idiom.
In conclusion, to learn english at the university has been a good experience, and as the english class are all the week, it permit to learn or to practice constantly, in particular for the writting. At this point I think that the best of the english class is the blog system, because not only it permit to know new vocabulary, but also it is useful for to write better respect to give expression to the ideas.
Finally I think “oh this is the last course!”, I don’t know if I pass, I am scary, so if I fail, I think that I will should to see more english movies.

miércoles, 11 de noviembre de 2009

Challenges in your discipline.

The Anthropology is a young  social discipline, for this reason, it is in constant challenge with the different teorical schools. But in the first place, the main challenge that the anthropology has been had in the XX century, has been to admit and to restore the fact that is a discipline daughter of the european colonialism. The anthropology was born for a need of the european states of to know the other cultures that were dominanting. For that reason, after of the evolucionist school of the XIX century, in the recent century, the anthropolgist have been trying to rescue the identity of that cultures subordinated and forgot.
It seems to me that, the looking that found to rescue this cultures, is a first step for to overcome the gray birth.
But, the second challenge is to gather the first change, and then to have a looking not ethnocentrist, to be more precise, is necesary a that the anthropoly study the other cultures that don't be of the first world thinking their like equals cultures, equal people, and not like lower cultures. For this aspect, I think that is too important to value to the other in all instance in our lifes, not only respect to other people or communities. At this point,the respet and the tolerance are the most important if we wish to be good anthropologist, I mean, that the people different to our own culture don't is a "study object", but a "study individual"; in the anthropology the researcher and the researchered are two individual that build the knowledge.
Finally, I think that today our challenge is that we should worry for the actuals conflicts in the pay, for example, for the mapuche conflict or political and social problems, because before of to look to outside, we should to look inside oneself, and is not enough with dress up like "artesa" or "hippie" believe us "pachamamicos", if wee don't have anything for the problems.