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Hi Torsten!!!
You are very smart at motivating your students And I think this is what they really need.
Thanks a lot. I have just read this thread. I have been tied with this forum about for last three months, may be more than this.
I have become used to this forum. You all experts are really kind hearted, polite and your solutions and suggestions are really very helpful for us.
Ok, I promise to follow this commitment.
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| #648 (permalink) Sun Nov 08, 2009 16:44 pm How to learn English? (30/30 Challenge) |
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Hi Torsten,
How are you doing? Sorry if it takes awhile for me to reply or say something in the forum.I came from a country wherein English is their second language.RIght now I'm in Canada and it's to embarassing for me to tell you that I am struggling in my English speaking,I am a university graduate and it's to frustrating for me.I went to a literacy test because I want to get into a nursing job but I didn't make it,there comment is "nursing job got lots of writting and they sent me to take my ESL.they said I need to improved my writting but rather than that I did good in multiple choice.I don't know where is my weaknessess is but I just want to improve my English grammar and maybe the correct usage of English.Dont get me wrong but I am studying all the emails that you've sent me.Im into it and I just wish I can figure it out which part of English I have to focus because I really wanna go into my profession which is being a nurse here in Canada. Thank's a lot for your help..olivia |
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| #649 (permalink) Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:16 am How to learn English? (30/30 Challenge) |
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Hi everybody,
What I've done is specially, watch movies in english, sometimes I put it with subtitles in english too, because in this way I can see the way of writting and hear the pronunciation., also I listen little dialogues, and I try to repeat at the same time for pronunciation although sometimes it's difficult to do the same pronunciation, I've also studied grammar.
I´ve done this for almost 2 years almost every day at least 1 hour, I've realized I've improved.
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| #650 (permalink) Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:22 am Hello every one. |
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I am in Vietnam, I try to be good in english. I love watching TV- Bloomberg channel, but it is also difficult to me to understand what journalist says although I have just got the TOEIC 655 points (Marks). could you please advice me the cure?
Thanks inadvance
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| #651 (permalink) Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:59 am How to learn English? (30/30 Challenge) |
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| Hi, thank you for putting this on the forum. It is actually my first time using the forum. It's kinda fun. I will try to listen to 30 minutes everyday and hopefully will keep up! |
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| #652 (permalink) Tue Nov 10, 2009 0:40 am 30/30 |
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Hello!
I'm agree with the theory that we have to change the habits if we want to learn a foreign language. Some months ago, I can't understand well the 90% of a lecture, a text, a reading, etc. With this course, I began to listen some exercises and now I say that I can understand a 60% up. Not yet, I can't listen to thirty minutes a day, but when I have time I do it. I am really happy about my progress.
I invite you to follow Torsten's advice. They really function.
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| #653 (permalink) Fri Nov 13, 2009 18:16 pm How to learn English? (30/30 Challenge) |
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what's wrong with this topic ? I watch it regularly and every day listened english speech now the amount of people who write here decrease and I don't practice.Come on let's write again 
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| #654 (permalink) Fri Nov 13, 2009 22:15 pm The 30/30 challenge. |
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Hi Alan,
A very cheerful good morning to you.
I have taken up the 30/30 challenge and commited to listen to the authentic material daily atleast for an hour. I have selected to listen to the CNN news on my pc. But the problem that I have been facing for the last four days is, that I have been listening to the news but I am not able to keep all the provided information in my mind. And I just end up with few lines only whatever I listen to. Please tell me what I should do, so that I atleast could be able to keep the full given information in my mind.
Thanks in advance.
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| #655 (permalink) Sat Nov 14, 2009 12:01 pm How to learn English? (30/30 Challenge) |
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Sonia,
Please if you took up the 30/30 challenge, please write in the topic, yesterday I wondered why the topic has disappeared and nobody write there.
I'm facing the same problem - can't keep all the information but the listening is great training the speakers are naturally born english-speaking people |
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| #656 (permalink) Sat Nov 14, 2009 22:13 pm How to learn English? (30/30 Challenge) |
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Well, just listen to simple English. Listening to CNN is not all fun and games. You certainly feel bored and annoyed when you listen and can't understand what the person is saying. And when you bored and lose interest, you don't learn. Just listen/read simple things that you will enjoy. It is a tried and true method.
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| #657 (permalink) Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:38 am How to learn English? (30/30 Challenge) |
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Good morning Happytofita
Thanks for your advice. I know you are learning too. We should help our friends and members as much as we can.
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Well, just listen to simple English(what is simple English?)
It is a tried(don't use an article before an adjective) ad(and) true method. |
"It is a tried" is wrong.= It is tried ....like it is good. (good is adjective)
tied =adjective= past participle and past tense of try
try=noun
you could give it a try.
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| #658 (permalink) Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:56 am How to learn English? (30/30 Challenge) |
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| Richard_Jack.c wrote: |
Good morning Happytofita
Thanks for your advice. I know you are learning too. We should help our friends and members as much as we can.
| Happytofita wrote: |
Well, just listen to simple English(what is simple English?)
It is a tried(don't use preposition before an adjective) ad(and) true method. |
"It is a tried" is wrong.= It is tried ....like it is good. (good is (an) adjective)
(Tr)ied =adjective= past participle and past tense of try
try=noun
(Y)ou could give it a try. |
Tried-and-true is an adjective. We say it is a tried-and-true method to mean that it was used many times before and proved to be successful. We also say tried-and-tested or tried-and-trusted.
"It is a tried-and-true method". |
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| #659 (permalink) Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:54 pm How to learn English? (30/30 Challenge) |
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Ok! you have used them as a compound adjective before a noun.
without dashes It would lead to misunderstanding. besides, you had not written "and" before corrections.(It was "ad") just a typo.
Thanks ever so much for your reply, I really appreciate it. I have written a lot today..I'm exhausted. Thank you by the way.
what about this one:
| Happytofita wrote: |
| Well, just listen to simple English. |
What did you mean?
As you know a typo differs from a mistake.
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| #660 (permalink) Sun Nov 15, 2009 16:44 pm How to learn English? (30/30 Challenge) |
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| By simple English I mean easy and understandable English. |
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