Since years ago, I’ve been struggling with my understanding and skills on English language. Now I’ve decided it’s time to take additional action. I had taken the BBC English course and (almost) finished it, I think it helped me a lot on my managing of the language, but I have some lacks in my oral and written expression, that I would like to solve, and the way I found (at least for the written part) is to write, and I’ll do this, sit at the computer a couple of days a week and start writing texts. I don’t know how long, and eighter the subjects I’ll touch, but it is important at least to write whatever pass though my mind, this way I hope I’ll gain mental agility and improve my expressiveness.

Today I’ll talk about why I want to develop my English.

There are several reasons why a person could want this: it could be for curiosity, to access a whole new world of information (many of the human knowledge is not available in Spanish, for instance), to travel and know new cultures or, I think the most usual reason, for work. And, to be honest, that last is my main motivation; I need to improve my English skills to get access to more and more promising work opportunities, and then to earn more money and be closer to be a rich person (or at least to get financial independence and an early retirement)

But that is a mid or long-term objective, is the long run aspiration. In the shorter term I need to pass an exam, to get access to a one of the most respected professional body in world, the Chartered Institute of Managing Accounting -CIMA-.

I’m part of a fast developing program, by one of the most important pharma group in UK, in which during three years I’m rotating through different departments of the company and, at the same time, I have to make studies in accounting to get the CIMA certification at the end of the program.

Time by time, I must perform exams to certificate my advances, they are multiple-choice based test, and are usually very easy to pass (if you have the proper preparation), they are in English, but I usually don’t have any issue understanding what I read. Nevertheless, one time a year I must present a written exam, and it’s there where I’ve been having some problems. That’s why I’m here tonight writing this, trying to get fluency by practice.

What do I expect? I’d like to be able to write wider texts, in less time and express better my ideas this way. And by three to six months, when I present again one of those written exams, don’t lose any mark or point due to a grammatical failure nor due to lack of expression.

Thanks for reading this and give suggestions. You’re helping a poor country economist to reach his dreams.