One of my aims in Australia is the improvement of my english skills. This summer I reached B2-level and after the six month stay I intent to pass a C1 exam (advanced certificate in english). Languages in general are definitely not my strength. Therefore I have to invest a lot of brainpower and time to get better in a language. Recently, I read a book about the comparison of intelligence and patience. The author – Matthias Sutter – claims that patience is more important than intelligence and showed a lots of evidence for his assumption. In the academic world and also in my topic (e-learning) english is fundamental.
Because of these two reasons I want to invest personal human resources. (The fact that Maggi passed the AEC years ago could also be a reason.)

Two weeks ago, I joined a class names “English for academic purpose”. My primary course “Preparation course for AED” didn’t ran (I would have been the only student). We are quite a small class: two engineers from Saudi Arabia and Iraq, a pharmacist from Italy, a young guy from China and a female architect from Brazil. The main target of this course is to prepare people for the studies in Australia. But only three of us share this aim – the other students have already finished theirs degrees.

The course is different to the last course in england four years ago: more discussion, more academic staff, more interaction. Till today I’ve learnt content in three different areas:

1. interesting facts about Australia (politics, education system, health system, typical sports in Australia, differences between Australia and Britain, organized crime)
2. academic skills (taking notes, academic writing, presentation skills)
3. english (grammar and vocabulary – but this topics we learnt by the way)

This course is very helpful for me, because I learn exactly the skills and the knowledge which will be useful in the future. Our teacher is really open-minded and collected a lot of experience by travel and live in the whole world.