The importance of active learning.
I've been reading and watching in English several texts and subtitled videos - respectively - for a while, and it has been rewarding to check that I've been able to fully understand what they were mostly about. Actually my level of understanding is such that I can complete successfully any kind of MOOC (massive online open course) which I want to enroll, even if they discuss complex topics like neuroscience or the theory of algorithms' complexity.
However, this improvement of my English only concerns to these passive activities: reading and listening. Whenever I wanted to join a discussion about an interesting thing in a forum I found that I were able to express myself only after a lot of effort and very clumsily. In the same way, whenever I tried to keep a normal conversation with a foreigner or even to say to other people the name of really anything if English I found that I were completely null.
In this sense, it is interesting to figure out how easy it is to fool ourselves in the learning process thinking that we have a deeper knowledge of a subject than we really have when we don't test ourselves and don't keep involved in "active" tasks.
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The importance of active learning.
I've been reading and watching in English several texts and subtitled videos - respectively - for a while, and it has been rewarding to check that I've been able to fully understand what they were mostly about. Actually my level of understanding is such that I can complete successfully any kind of MOOC (massive online open course) which I want to enroll, even if they discuss complex topics like neuroscience or the theory of algorithms' complexity.However, this improvement of my English only concerns to these passive activities: reading and listening. Whenever I wanted to join a discussion about an interesting thing in a forum I found that I were able to express myself only after a lot of effort and very clumsily. In the same way, whenever I tried to keep a normal conversation with a foreigner or even to say to other people the name of really anything if English I found that I were completely null.
In this sense, it is interesting to figure out how easy it is to fool ourselves in the learning process thinking that we have a deeper knowledge of a subject than we really have when we don't test ourselves and don't keep involved in "active" tasks.
Not a correction, simply the way I would say it in English. Your phraseology is very good and very close to being that of a native speaker, you just need more practice.
For a while now I've been reading and watching several texts and subtitled videos in English and it has been rewarding to confirm that I have been able to understand fully what they are about. Actually my level of understanding in English is such that I can complete successfully any kind of MOOC (massive online open course) in which I want to enroll, even if they discuss complex topics like neuroscience or the theory of algorithms' complexity.
However this improvement of my English applies only to the passive activities of reading and listening. Whenever I have wanted to join an interesting forum discussion I have found that I have some difficulty expressing myself as well as I would like to. In a similar way, whenever I have tried to hold a normal conversation with a foreigner or to pronounce the name of something in English I have found that at times I have struggled.
In this sense, it is very interesting to realise how easily we can be mistaken about the overall level of our language learning if we do not continue to test ourselves and keep ourselves involved in "active tasks".
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