Day 30 - End of the Challenge For the last 30 days, I have been participating in a 30-day challenge. The core of the task was to work on the languages each one was learning, but also to do something in group which is always more fun and motivating than doing it alone. Today, that the challenge is closing, it’s time to look back and assess what I’ve gained and what areas I need to reinforce. The positives are that I could catch up with my English studies after not having done much in the past 2 years, and to my surprise, I’ve continued to improve in spite of not having worked on my English actively. Another thing that makes me close these 30 days with a smile is knowing that I never took the challenge lightly, quite the contrary, every day I spare some time to write something meaningful to me. In fact, if I had written something quickly just to keep up with the challenge, now I’d be quite dissatisfied with myself. As for the aspects I need to take more seriously; Punctuation. In this regard, most of the feedback I got had to do with punctuation. Hence, this August I’ll put myself to study what relative, dependant, and independent clauses are. I admit that for many years I’ve proudly refused to even consider studying that aspect of grammar. However, since I’m looking forward to the C1 certificate, I have to make peace with the idea that English in this regard is different from Spanish. For example, in Spanish we have more freedom when writing, punctuation is also more intuitive than regulated. Besides we don’t have anything called “run-on sentences”. That’s why in Spanish one has the freedom to write long sentences, and also to use plenty of adjectives to describe the same thing. In conclusion, I’m the one who has to adapt to English grammar and not the other way round. I would also like to learn another language, consequently this next 30 days I’ll allocate some minutes of my days to write in French. I have a simple goal: 100-word paragraph daily. Luckily I have engraved in my mind, the first time I wrote a paragraph in English, it took me the whole afternoon. I assume that with French I’ll have to go through the same agony.