English language learning experience

The first contact I had with English when at the year of six. We moved to USA, South Carolina, because of my father’s job. I started school there, from first to second grade. I don’t remember having problems with English. When one is younger we are like sponges, we learn very quickly. When we came back to Chile I entered to a German spoken school, so I didn’t practice it more. In eighth grade I started again studying English, two hours a week. At that moment it wasn’t difficult to learn English, because the level was low and knowing another language makes it easier. When I think on my weakest aspect, it would be grammar. I don’t have good memory and at that age it wasn’t interesting to learn the rules.

Once I entered to the university I didn’t study English more, until last year that I travelled to Australia. There I realized that English wasn´t so easy. There were many grammar rules and structures I didn’t know. I have never thought on verbs followed by prepositions. I understood the language as being able to communicate in informal situations.