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Blog Post 6: English Language Challenges

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  In my experience, I think that learning English at university has been very gratifying, because before starting to study in anthropology, my English was very bad and I couldn’t speak o write in English, and for read, I always had to use a translator, and all was very complicated for me, study a subject in English was a real torture. Today, I can read more fluently and I use a translator for search some specific words, and I can speak some sentences and explain some ideas speaking or writing. About the blogs, they help me for redaction, because before write blogs, I had to write all sentences with a translator, and today, I can write a paragraph without help of translator, and although without a perfect redaction, I only utilize a translator for some words that I don’t know, because I don’t have a big vocabulary yet. In my opinion, I think that the aspect that’s more difficult for me is speak in English and talk fluently, moreover, I have to improve my vocabulary about everyday si
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Blog Post 5: Changes to my study program

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In my case, I graduated from university seven years ago, I studied physical anthropology in Universidad de Concepcion, and actually, I studied archaeology in Universidad de Chile, that’s why I will give my opinion based on my experience in both universities. However, according to me, the study program of own this university is very completed and updated. About the curriculum, anthropology has changed a lot in these years, the principal change is the increase in interest in applied anthropology, and own study program is more focused to in this topic too, but I think that in archaeology is needed more subjects about applied archeology like environmental impact, forensic archeology, etc. Secondly, I think that in archaeology is needed to focus more in laboratory analysis in subjects like archaeobotany, zooarchaeology, pottery or lithics, with specialized laboratories about these subjects, because archaeology is increasingly its interest in this analysis, moreover, is needed more field
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Blog Post 4: Time travel to the past or future

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Hi, today I will talk about travels in time. If I could travel in time, I think that I would travel to three events, two events in the past and one event in the future. First, I would travel to the prehistory, to the moment when the Mesoamerican societies developed the corn. I’m very curious about this event because the corn was created by crossing of two wild plants, and this process is still unknown. I be interested in this event because I love much think about the technologies and knowledge that the ancient societies had about the nature and the biodiversity, mainly, because the cross of species it is still very difficult even by own technology in the present. Secondly, I would travel to the past, to the moment when my grandparents were young, because they died when I was very young, and I would like talk with them. I’m be interested in my grandparents because they lived in a rural context very isolated, without access to electricity, drinking water, cars or refrigerators, in
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