This post goes to every guy or girl out there, who is planning to come to the University of Groningen to study.
Let my say one thing in advance: If you think your English is brilliant and you don't need to take an English course AGAIN, go to Google, tip in "academic wordlist" and read. If you still think you don't need this course, you can read my other posts and don't worry about my advice. If you think you might want to hear my advice, you better stay and listen.
When I came here to study, I thought my English might be sufficient...to have conversations, talk about random stuff or chatting with each other, yes. But academic English is not the English you know from school. Don't get me wrong, you can easily deal with academic English, I promise but... you have to study!!
Seriously, this course is helpful. It is not a course you just have to pass and afterwards you won't need it (like some others). This course is about English and how you apply it in an appropriate way to use it all around the world. Remember: You gonna be international, this means, you will talk to a large variety of people with different heritages. It could only be beneficial for you to use this opportunity to improve your English. Of course, sometimes you'll might think:"Ok why are we doing this now??", but in the end everything will contribute to better English skills.
- study the new vocabularies in the first place (best you can do)
- put effort in the assignments
- use the chance to ask (maybe for some grammar things you always wanted to know
- Have fun! this course don't want to bully you, it is a loose atmosphere which can be fun
So, use this chance and study hard, it will worth it, I promise.
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