All the students of Bokos Therapy Institute, I believe we have the same agony. This agony is that, even though we try to update our knowledge of the English language and we handle to achieve our goal, at leat in some extend, thanks to the honorable professor Mr. B., we have not often the opportunity to check our progress with native English speakers and register more useful information.
The previous days I had the chance to have an interesting conversation with a young man from London, who works in Athens as a movie maker for commercials on the internet. By the dialogs I had with this interesting person emerged two simple truths about my ability in spoken English: Firstly, after a year in a class of Bokos I can easily have a conversation about several issues with any native English speaker and secondly as more as I am speaking the language, I could better understand my weaknesses and do something to overlap them.
For instance, I understood that when I am speaking English outside of the Institute, in the real life, I do not use properly the question form. Instead, maybe because I am a little bit nervous, usually I just set an issue that I am interested to discuss with an other person. Also, some times, I use greek metaphors that are not used in English, thus I now understood another thing too, that it is better to avoid these type of language schemes, at least when I am not sure of their existence.
In my opinion, should all of us try and achieve to have many dialogues with native English speakers during the summer, in order each one of us to establish on his own a personal reliable check and balances system for his progress in English and to upgrade his English speaking ability, having always as final goal to success in the exams and to achieve to speak the language as the natives English speakers!
Hi Boko-boys and Boko-girls,
After the Proficiency exams, I think that we have all managed to relax in some or a greater extent. I wish you all to receive any kind of pass and to go for a greater achievment.
Our country and society, at the same time, is on the verge. We are going to vote hoping that the best result for the nation and its people will be the outcome. "The ballot is like a pregnant woman" used to say a famous greek politician, who he is not still alive, underlining that nobody can be sure over the elections result, at least before the votes be counted. Whatever decide to do, do it following your hurt, becaue aftermath you won't have the opportunity to change your vote.In a word, I suggest you - little subjunctivers - vote without fear, according to your pure desire for the next day of Greece.
Regarding me, I am always trying to find a viable ballance in my inside and outside chaos. I feel that already missing the english lessons in Bokos Institute with professor Kostas B., but I hope to return not for the reasons that I have been until recently there. Instead, I hope to come back to take exclusive english lessons or something like that by Mr. Bokos, but the examiners are the persons who they will decide about this. Further, I believe that it will be useful to meet each other within June in order to maintain the pleasant atmosphere, which has been developed among all of us, especialy the last months.
Thus, I'm stating that I am available to meet you at a day that Kostas and most of you, you could agree to have a new chaotic greek-english brainstorming in a specific place and time, like the previous meetings we had together.
Kisses to all of you and wishes for good perfonce for those which have exams for the university...
