{"id":248,"date":"2024-04-18T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T14:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2024-08-14T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:46:19","slug":"how-i-learned-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"How I learned English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like most people in Europe, I went to a non\/English speaking school. I grew up in Belgium, more exactly in Brussels. I did not study in English. English is my fourth language. At home, I speak Spanish, and my parents took care to teach my sister and me how to write in Spanish too. At school, I learned French and Dutch. Only from 3rd middle school year, when I was 14 or 15, I started learning English. That year, I was still in a French-speaking school in Brussels so the level of English taught was ridiculously low. The next year, I went to a Dutch\/speaking school and that was a big shock. The level was 2 times higher if not more. I went from an A1 to a B1 in a few months since I had to follow the rhythm. I had fewer classes and less theory but more practice in language essays, reading books, debates, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing was that 2 years later I would be back in a French-speaking school so the level of English I was taught did not get better from that point. I decided thus to take my English learning path under control. I signed up for evening classes, 6 hours a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 pm to 9 pm. I loved going to those classes, I felt that I was finally learning something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since I needed to prepare for the IELTS exam (to apply to foreign universities), I searched for free and cheap resources available to me. I will share them <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1wV6oOeChGRO1NCbdSnihuDH4zywyVb19?usp=drive_link\">here <\/a>and also, some tips and tricks I followed that really helped me increase my English level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feel free to comment if you have any suggestions or reviews you find relevant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most people in Europe, I went to a non\/English speaking school. I grew up in Belgium, more exactly in Brussels. I did not study in English. English is my fourth language. At home, I speak Spanish, and my parents took care to teach my sister and me how to write in Spanish too. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-languages"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pexels-photo-5676740-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karimasko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}