E-tivity 9 - Learning is a PLEasure

I have to say that this is the first time I’m seriously reflecting on how and how much I’m actually learning English. I was surely aware of the fact that only a very low percentage of what I learnt at school or at the university is fixed into my brain! Anyway I didn’t imagine how much of my knowledge came from those silly things I do every day! For example, do you know what a screwdriver is? I didn’t until I discovered it during a match on a point & click game!

Of course this is not enough… I have to keep studying, reading and discovering new things such as words, slangs, fixed expressions, and more! In other words, I need to regularly update my PLE! By the way, what do you think of it? I found it quite easy to create, maybe because I don’t do that much in order to improve my English :p!!

My PLE consists of two macro cathegories: formal (university, tools and job) and informal (fun and contacts). Even if the second has only two cathegories, it cointains more topics! This is a clear demonstration of the greater amount of informal information I discover ever day! The only thing I don't appreciate in FreeMind is the lack of the possibility to link words which belong to another cathegory... What do you think?

Good luck to everybody for Monday’s speech!!!
Anna