Narrativas coletadas pelo grupo ALMS na Finlândia

Narratives collected by the ALMS team in Finland

21. Päivi, Faculty of Social Sciences
Kaleidoscope reflection

Needs:
I don't know what I actually need. Or wether I NEED anything. Maybe I could improve my writing and speaking skills. I can read everything I want, so that's not an issue. I don't actually need writing skills in my work: I'm a journalist and I wouldn't never be that fluent in English that I could work as a journalist. But maybe the thing I'd need could be: "to be able to say or write my ideas, to make summaries and conclusions and questions" That would help im my job.
Skills:
I can read everything I need or want to. I can also speak in everyday situation and write simple e-mails. The problem is I don\'t enjoy sepaking or writing English. I like using language (Finnish), it\'s very important to me to express myself in a very accurate and also lively way. I also like to create new words, eg. I say \"olustella\" when I go to have a beer with my friends. What could that be in English? \"Beering\"maybe. ;)
Motivation:
I won't need languages in my job. Well, that's me! Of course I need some English but I can manage myself with my current skills although it's a bit slow and I don't feel very confident with it. And when I travel, my current skills are absolutely good enough. I don't have English speaking friends. I think that's because with my current skills I can't speak as profoundly as I'd like to. And to learn English that well would be a very very very big job. Maybe I had to live in English speaking country too, to achive that.
Personality:
I need to understand the grammar before I start to use the language. Otherwise it's all blurry in my head and I can't get a grip on anything. "To brake a rule one has first know the rules" is my motto.
Learning background: I used to quite like learning English. It was hard work nut quite ok. Nowadays I'm too lazy: I've seen how easy studing can be (communication and social sciences are much easier to learn) so I don't have that much motivation anymore.