Part 1
Are you a winner?
As you know this book is called "English for Winners" and before you delve into it, we should find out together if it is for you. In other words: Do you want to be a winner? It is a fact that the vast majority of all English learners are not satisfied with their English.
If you ask the average English learner to assess their own English language skills, you are very likely to get one of the following answers: (I've removed the typical grammar mistakes that usually occur in these answers.)
- "I learned English at school for more than 5 years but I my English is not so good."
- "I speak a little English but I think it's just "school English."
- "I understand a little English but I can't speak it."
- "My English grammar is very bad, I have often tried to learn the grammar rules but they are too complicated for me."
- "I had good school grades in English but I can't speak English very well."
We could continue with these typical statements -- they all show that only a very small percentage of all English learners are really happy with their English. Most of them know that their learning efforts are not yielding the results they expect. But instead of making adjustments and trying to find the right learning methods, they give up thinking that they "just don't have a talent for languages".
Winners belong to the small minority of English learners who are in control of their results. They know that learning English is an ongoing process, which happens every day. They also understand that when it comes to learning English any progress is success. We will take a closer look at how winners learn English further in this book. For the time being, let's find out what it takes to be a winner.
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