Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU)

I have been learning English for years. I thought that when I went to an English speaking country I would understand many things.However, this did not happen. At first, it was really dissapointing because I could not understand people in the street, but I could understand teachers.So, Ihad to get used to asking for things many times because did not understand what I was being told.Moreover, english people in general did not make any effort to make us understand what they were saying. Nevertheless, in the end, I managed to understand real English1

The beginning was not so easy even if I used to spaeak english quite a lot in my business school (with erasmus students, english and american teachers, but when I arrived in Leeds I was always with english people I di not know at all and they all spoke slang, that was really frustrating but I quickly felt more confident with it and most of these people has become good friends of mine, which makes me learn the language faster and faster. At uni the courses were animated with power point presentations, which make things easier for us, international students

The communication experience in the University was great in every field.The lessons in the beginig were hard to understand but the teachers took care of me and after some weeks everything went ok. There was a learning centre with all kind of facilities to improve in english in our spare time such cassettes, films...and always one teacher was there to help us

Through team work or presentations at uni and a busy social life I could enhance my language skills to an high level. My collogial as well as my Business English have improved to an high extent.

My host country was United Kingdom, so I had to speak and in general communicate in English. Some difficulties due to the local accent were overcome as the time was going by.

Felt my language skills were pretty good before i came to the UK. Feel my skills have developed especially the institutional and academic language.