Well, for now that is. Because studying never really ends, does it?

One of the goals I had for this course, was to learn to speak English more comfortably and pronunciation is naturally a big part of that. On a previous post, I said that I had been using two mobile apps, ELSA and Duolingo to focus on speaking specifically. Since ELSA only had a 7-day free trial, I've long stopped using...

Hello! It's been a while since I last posted anything and to say. To simply say that I've been busy is an understatement; I've had exams, assignments and work, and to balance all that with free time has been very difficult. Weirdly enough, though we have this exam week every period, none of my exams were held during it, but...

It's time to deliver the first draft of my essay, which happens to be the most daunting task of this support group – possibly the entire course. Essays are never easy to write, not in Finnish and not in English, even if both are languages I've been using for years (well, one being my Native tongue).

For this week's task, we had to take a closer look at a text's structure. To do so, of course, I had to pick a new text to read and instead of a regular academic article, I picked my first ever English commentary – related to Geography, of course. I've read commentaries before but while doing this task, I realized...

As I have mentioned in previous blog posts, one of my tasks for this course was the listen to science podcasts. I'm usually quite picky about what I listen to and there are only two podcasts that I actively follow. However, those ones are completely for entertainment purposes, and I don't think I should include listening to them as a...

You'd think that translation isn't that hard, right? I mean, you just read a sentence and translate it – it can't be that difficult. Well, I was wrong.

The course has now been underway for a month, so I think it's a good time for me to do a little check-up and see what I've managed to do so far. Both of my support groups have recently started, and I've completed their first tasks – on time, may I add. My second counsellor's meeting is also scheduled for...