In my own experience with english classes, I can say that I'v learned a lot about how to explain myself in english, maybe in the past I was able to read and speak in english, but that ability has been improved a lot. The blogs are a really good way to improve the speech, in the past months, I'v known some new words, new meanings, new ways to say something that I have in my mind. English has a lot of importance in the present, is the main lenguage in about all internationals enterprises, it is used in a lot of places, countrys, web pages and more, nowadays, to learn english is a must in about all colleges, and that haves a reason. Personally I use english a lot in web pages, online games, movies and series, I enjoy seeing entire movies without captions!