10/29/2005

What is necessary to learn English well?

Learning English requires action. You may know all the learning tips, but if you don't start doing things, you will achieve nothing. The fact is, if you want to learn to speak English well, you must change your life. Here are some examples of things you will have to do:
  • read a book in English for an hour every day, analyzing the grammar in sentences and looking up words in an English dictionary
  • spend your afternoon practicing the pronunciation of the English "th" sound
  • listen to an audiobook or other recording in English, stopping it frequently, trying to understand what is being said, and trying to imitate the speaker's pronunciation

  • carefully write an e-mail message in English, using a dictionary or a Web search every 20 seconds to make sure every word is correct, and taking 5 minutes to write one sentence
  • think about an English sentence you've read, wondering if it could say "a" instead of "the" in the sentence, and trying to find similar sentences on the Web to find out the answer
  • walk down the street and build simple English sentences in your head (talking to yourself in English about the things you see around you)

What kind of person would do all these crazy things? Only one kind. The kind of person who enjoys doing them. If you want to learn to speak English well, you're going to have to become that person. You cannot hate doing these things. Have you ever heard of a person who became successful by doing something he hated?


The problem with learning and teaching English as a foreign language is that all English learners want to speak English well; however, most learners don't want to spend time on learning English on their own .
 
你曾經做過上面的"瘋狂"學英文的事嗎? I did a lot!


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Jospeh Wang

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2 Comments:

At 30/10/05 22:09, Anonymous 匿名 said...

當你看HBO或其他的電影台~
遮住字幕是不錯的方式~
畢竟很多影集都是看過很多次的~

 
At 31/10/05 11:23, Anonymous 匿名 said...

十年前我曾到密西根州grand rapid那個地方,全town沒有一個會講中文,所以英文不進步也不行了。

 

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