Erasmus+, breaking barriers
My participation to a mobility appertaining to the Erasmus+ programme granted me the chance of enjoying a memorable experience, as it pushed me into an oustanding adventure of knowledge. Moreover, the Improving english language skills course connected participants from all four corners of the continent - Italy, Poland, France, Latvia, Portugal, Romania - which assisted in building an international context responsible for bringing awarness to the status of the citizen of an united Europe.
Through innovative, creative and interactive ways of teaching, proficient and well versed professors guided us towards enhancing our English communication skills, international language which enables its speakers to dissolve any physical and linguistic barrier met inside the shared European area. The four main abilities of learning a new language - listening, speaking, reading and writing - were not only developped in a formal setting, defined by the lecture hall, at the hand of online tools, tutorials, videos and Active Floor, but also in an informal environment belted by the Dalmatian coast, of an astounding beauty, such as the Bene beach. Grasping, following and understanding the set of skills was possible through reading comprehension, creative writing exercises, such as telling a story or expressing one’s opinion.
Interpersonal relationships, counting as a fundamental angle of human existence, were emphasized by socializing during group assemblies, with all participants being constantly engaged in conversations with peers from all over Europe, thus, going through a journey of learning and connecting with both the Dalmatian and the locutor’s culture. Going exploring in Split, to the Trogir fortress, or the roman amphitheater, took us back in time, meandering through the ways and wonders of Croatia’s history, and revealing enigmatic stories of the way in which the continent became as we know it today: a multicultural space where distinct ethnic origins - slavic, romanic - melt into the vast European unit.
