Language Learning Blog of Loran Seuters

Finally, a first post on the language learning blog of Loran Seuters. The start was quite frustrating, because two times there wen't something wrong with uploading my blog, due to my really old laptop in combination with a bad internet connection.
But, from now on we look forward and start working on this blog, to make this a real succees.

First, I will start with introduce myself briefly.
I am Loran Seuters, born and raised in a small town called Havelte.I have two sisters (Annemarie, 26 and Heleen, 20) and one brother (Marijn, 24) My parents are divorced since I'm 7 years old, so I don't really now how it to have always both parents around.I went to primary school in Havelte and afterwards to high school in Meppel. High school was a lovely time. Always had lots of friends and I managed to graduate quite easily.
Most of my time I spend with my friends from Havelte. Almost every second free time in holidays and weekends I spend with them. I actually have one hobby besides my friends and that is soccer. I joined the local club when I was 4 years old and I'm still playing there.
But, as I said, I graduated at high school and now I'm studing International Business and management on the university of Groningen. It goes quite well up un till now and I hope I can continue this.
I start this blog for English. In this blog I, and everybody else, can see my progress in English

Choosing an international study was quite a big choise for me. My English was never of such a level that teachers reccomd me to do an Eglish study. However, the experience and the opportunity to study abroad have convinced me to choose this study. I think is was wise decision, because this is exactly what I want. It is hard to keep up with the pace, but I think I'm able to, I only have to get used to it.

I'm already feeling that my English is getting better with the day. My speaking is improved tremendously since the start of this course. Talking in English is no longer an issue for me. Also listening to English has become much easier. It's just that i don't have to translate every word in my head anymore, but I know what it means the very first second I hear it. Take for example the paper 'Asses your skills'. When i have a look my assesment of mine listening skills, I'm actually quite surprised. When I have a look at it know, the assesment would be fare more positive then it was in the beginning of the year.
The only thing i'm struggeling with is the thing i'm doing right now, writing. I find it hard to get the right spelling of words that i don't use that often. I also have problems with the punctuation in English. I hope that one day I can write just as easy in English as an Englishmen does. Therefore, I have to practise more often, and this blog is a good help.

So, I think my learning goals are quite clear for this course. Just improving my english as far as possible, so that I'm not facing any troubles with my english in my years that i'm studing.

In my next posts, which will be quite soon,  i will add two memo reports (Knoplicka and Supersun) with it's related word clouds and word profiles. So, enough things to analyse in the near future. Looking forward to it. I won't let you wait to long, that's a promise.