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!
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