How to learn English?

[Svetik]

Hi Torsten and everybody!!!
My way to learn English are movies.
But I can't only listen, so I use subtitles, I like read the words and hear them, and sure when it is an interesting subject in those movies it make me pay more atention.
However the lessons from this forum are very helpful thanks!!!

[Ngoc Anh]

i'm student, i learning English by watching TV but i can not speak E good, how do i can speak English and listen good, can u help me. thank for everthing

[Maribel19]

Hiya!

I think the best way to learn English is to read books. I am reading a new novel now and I realice that I learn many new words and expressions each day. Also watching films on TV or cinema and documentaries and listening radio. Besides, there are many links about English language and you can practice with them doing all type of exercises.

Regards to everybody :D

Maribel

[Arsh]

Hello!
I am very fond of vocabulary so I always try to learn some new words everyday. For that I read newspapers and listen to the english news. But rather than political news I go for the science and technology part or a special publications like Spectrum etc. But I cannot read novels as I am not able to complete it through end ........may be I have no perfect schedule...so how i can inculcate the habit of reading in me.If you can guide me please :) :)

Thank you

[Alimjang]

hi! SIR tORSTEN,
I watch english movie and always listening dvd I always study about grammar...but its too hard..I thought conversation is good to way learning english ,just speak without thingking the grammar rule ...hehehe.. eventhough it is wrong as long you can speak... hehehe.. this is my opinion..have a nice day sir torsten...

[Lilliesee]

Hi Greetings and Good afternoon.

Well for me, these are the ways I learn English:
1. For vocabulary, I would copy those difficult words into an exercise book, then I will look out for the meaning from a dictionary or an online dictionary.
2. Practice reading out loud whenever articles you can grab hold of either from newspapers or magazines.
3. I always believe that practice makes perfect, trying out grammar questions either online or from books.
4. Try your very best to speak English whenever opportunity you have, eventhough broken but I think this is a way to improve and correct your mistakes. Keep your mouth shut will only lead you to square one.
5. Watching English movie first with English subtitle and listen carefully with the pronounciation, then watch again the movie without the subtitle and see how much you can understand what the actors are talking about.

For me they really help alot in improving my English in reading, speaking, listening, writing and understanding.

Cheer,
Lillie

[Honorfield]

Hey all!
for me it was very hard to learn english whilst i was still living in Germany. I didn't like my teacher at school a lot.
And if i wanted to watch a dvd in english i had to watch it by myself because non of my friends were interested in it.
So would end up learning for two days and quickly lose interest for the next two weeks or sometimes months until
i tried it again.
Than i decided to go for a trip to Australia and to work and travel there on a working holiday visa for one year.
It was really hard at the beginning, not just because my english was very poor but also because of the way australians
talk. They love to shorten words like "barbie" for barbeque, "sanga" for sandwich, or "footy" for the australian rules football.
And the many Irish people i met on my way around the continent where probably even harder to understand.
At the beginning i met a lot of German travelers, and so i ended up talking a lot of german again which made it
really hard to improve my still really poor english.
The biggest improvement i made was when i moved into a sharehouse in Melbourne and lived there with people from all
over the world(no germans:), and the only language we could communicate with each other in was english.
After just six months without having visited any english class i was able to speak english almost fluently.
And just before i was going to leave, i fell in love with an australian girl who is now my wife:)
Since then, english is not so much of an issue anymore as we speak english all day long:)

So my advice for english learners, find yourself an english speaking partner:)
Or at least have people surround you that give you the chance to speak english as often
as you can.

Cheers honorfield

[Mir]

The best way to learn English is,never give up keep traying harder and harder,and I'm sure evry body get's a happy ending.That's what i'm doing and I'm really happy with my result's,now I can have a easy convarstation with an English speaker, the only problem I have is writen but I'm sure I will get there. All the best ciao.

[HersheySoldier]

Hi Torsten,

I learn english by watching movies reading books and speaking since my fiancee is American.

Bernd

[Ars_GunneR]

Hello Torsten! As usual I'm very glad about your lessons!
Well I think there was a lot of asked about how to learn English so don't ''judge'' me if I repeat someones suggestion. Well I think one of the best way to learn any foreign language is a motivation, because without motivation you just don't have any success, another way is self-confidences because without self-confidence you just wost your time, and the other probably most important thing when you learning foreign especially English you just need don't fear about your mistakes because without mistakes nobody can't have success.

Faithfully Tigran.

[Lilies]

hello everbody, i'm lilies, I from Vn, I like read book of Jack london, and i like news, because I'm journalist. I'm usually write articles, I don't have time for film,

[Tarasani]

Hi everyone, I have a funny experience in learning english. I use to think that if I could go to an English language country and stay there for a while I would learn the language perfectly. But it is not like that, I live in Canada for 5 years, but I still have difficulties in the language specially in the field of writing. But I guess the best way that helped me alot is reading. One can learn expresions and improve the vocabulary in this way. Also watching movies is the other way which can help alot and finaly, of course, having contact will natives helped me the most. I am not saying that I havenèt improved at all, what I am trying to say is it takes time and alot of times.

[Sadig Sati]

Dear Torsten
Find you good
As I told you before I had done my university studies in english langauge, that was in the period from 1985-1990. But from that time and up to now I fiel that I am in my first positions in the English lader. Still I cant speak fluently, had many speling prroblems and find a great difficulties in understanding the topics if I speaks to Europian or even wotching a film.
I can guss that the chance for improving my english is realy by practising speaking & listening to a real english speakers.
Sadig Sati

[Arigirl]

hi , i like to learn english with songs, and is a good way to speak with slangs that use diferent people on the contries
my english is very bad but i tray to loose my fear
sorry and thankyou
ari

[Staceyw]

I would recommend you to watch some English TV shows or movies. :D Do read some books with if necessary a dictionary at hand. There are a lot of good resources on the internet to help you learn English. :P This way you quickly expand your word-base.:lol:

Good luck to you! :!: