How to learn English?

[Pau_v]

Hello everyone!

Hmmm.. I guess listening and reading would be good, for starters. In my case, I learned to develop my English skills through reading, listening, writing, and conversing. Conversation with other people is a good way to test and confirm that what I have learned is right and applicable for that particular situation. Studying about grammar helped me to be conscious about how I phrase my sentences, but, I think it is not quite helpful especially when I become too conscious with grammar. AND, I always enjoy whatever activity I do to improve my English. ^^

One mentor taught me that if I wanted to speak good English, I must practice thinking in English. Which, I believe helps a lot too.

However, I learned English at a very young age. I guess that is also one factor.

I hope I imparted some useful ways of learning English!

Pau ^^

[Joyce Wu]

Good evening Torsten:

An old saying'There is no shortcut to learning' is absolutely right.
i think no matter what kink of thing you learn,
learning everything must be step by step and foot on the ground,
and i found that accumulate strength is also an important thing for the beginner.
So i agree with your advice very much.

I listen to the broadcasting such as ICRT,BBC or CNN when i'm on commute every morning,
and that jsut spend 30 mins listening a day.
And in my free time, i will watch some movies on TV or computer.
In addition, you also can rent some DVDs from DVD store
and you'd better chose English subtitles to watch,
you not only learn some words or phrases new
but also listen the pronunciantion in the movie.
Or chose some favorite some songs to sing,word by word and repeat several times.
These methods all my way to learning English and i hope it will be useful to others.

cheers,
Joyce wu

[Nkongme Dorcas]

hi Toersten I hope you are doing well
I think the more you practice the more you improve your english language. because practice make perfect
best regards
DORCAS

[Huhuiowen]

The television show I like to watch is Friends and 24 Hours without any translation, we can watching it attached subtitle at the 1st time, and without subtitle at the 2nd time. It can help us to improve our listening ability and native speaking ways.
Now, this forum gives me a most fantastic chance to get along with learning English and make me happy every day.
Thanks a lot.

[Bimabiru21]

Hi ! Mr.Torsten good evening hope you and your family is good sound health coud you please explain me exect how to learn good english.

[Bimabiru21]

please write me how to learn fast english as us person.

[Lljiljanuca]

Hi Torsten,
I do not know when I use words tell, say or speak
Many thanks
Ljiljanuca

[Torsten]

[Bond]

Hi torsten
My method for learning english is to read english story books. I read grammar books . I listen everyday to radio news. I speak with my boy friend who native English. When i make mistake he shout at me. I am also student at univercity in england. my writing is really poor. I need to do something about it

[Do3a]

Hi every body ;
I read all the responds , and I like it all I learn my english from movies, series and programs when I was 10 years old that make me understand some words, but becuase we don't speake english frequently even in school when we study english, but I discover that I understand english very well but I can't speak or write it very well.
lately I take Toefle IBT course and I love it very much and enjoy when I study it but I am afraid from the exam because it based on four parts reading,listening , writing , and speaking, because of that i injoied to this forum to learn more and improve my english .
now I read articles, news ,and be more attention to pronounce the word and hope one day I can speake like them.
best regards.
Doaa

[Bashirahmad]

Hello to everybody
I have to thank from all of you.
In the country which I live is Afghanistan. I dont have the possibality more to lesson to the radio. One thing which can help me is my IT lessons which I study online. They teach use by audio lessons and it help me more.

[Vano]

Hi everybody!
I think the best way to learn English is watching american movies or tv-shows in original version.

[Antoine]

GOOD MOORNING

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ADVICES. I BEGAN TO LEARN ENGLISH 25 YEARS AGO. I WACTH BBC AND SOMETIMES READ ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS. SO MY BIG DIFFICULT IS LISTING.
wHAT CAN YOU RECOMMAND ME?

BEST REGARDS

CESAR

[Nice Rose]

Dear Teacher’s

We improve our English by openly talk together. It’s my personal the best way to improve our English when we well know the alphabets a, b, c, d, e………………..and we able to make any single word by alphabets b.o.o.k, book. This is first step to learn English. If we depended just our teacher we have never improve our English.

Teacher is say: apple

Student say; apple

This time student is not known how its apple…? Why use the “e” end of the word. Teacher say apple and student speak apple. But if student learn to himself with kindness of teacher it’s easy way to improve his English. Computer is too best way for improve our English, net search, stories, type letter on Microsoft word ,Listen English music, newspaper, English books, etc.

Sorry for that If I am wrong, please you guide me how to improve our English.

Best regards,

Nice Rose

[Eumeja]

Hi Torsten,

I attend an English course. Then I listening to audio cassettes, speak with my teacher and learn English with she. I listening to the program in English like Discovery or History.
Today I read about the 30/30 Challenge and I'm ready to start!

Best regards,
Ina