Students always want to know how to learn English quickly and effectively. There has to be some way of doing it, right? In this post I’ll let you know the four things you need to do to learn a language effectively and efficiently.
Here are some interesting links for you. 7 tips for preparing for the IELTS Test from Yago.sg 20 Tips for Learning your First Second Language from ReturnofKings.com – I believe he means ‘first additional language’ but let’s not split hairs – via @SayHowDoYouDo How to read and understand a scientific paper for non-scientists from IFLScience.com … [Read more…]
On Monday there was a little bit of travel English with a guide to booking hotel rooms. On Tuesday there was vocabulary, with a post about describing solutions to problems. This week’s podcast was about crime. There was a post about being aware of common homophones on Thursday. Yesterday we topped off the week with … [Read more…]
OK, let’s kick things off with a post about space. To follow up, I posted about colloquial pronouns you never get taught. On Wednesday, the podcast was about feelings using adjectives and prepositions. After that there was a post about regrets. On Friday I put up a video about sequencing step-by-step processes with the example … [Read more…]
When you start learning a language everything is unknown. You take in vocabulary and grammar and make fast progress in making those new, unknown words become old, known words. The speed of progress becomes normal. What most language learners aren’t prepared for is the plateau at the intermediate level, where there is less clear meaning. … [Read more…]
On Monday I posted some banking English. Everyone has to use banks and it can be inconvenient to use English banks when you don’t know the right words to say. On Tuesday I posted a way to use your to-do list to study grammar. I’ve started to do this with my to-do list in Japanese, … [Read more…]
Here are this week’s posts. On Monday I talked about making English-speaking friends and how it isn’t so tough if you remember a few things. On Tuesday I looked at an easy mistake to make, ‘fish’ or ‘fishes’? I looked at trying to cut down on dictionary use on Thursday. For your listening pleasure, I … [Read more…]
Quite a busy week, this week. On Monday I talked about weather and how to describe it like the British. On Tuesday I gave some examples of how to use ‘whatever’ and ‘however’ and such. I made a podcast about football on Wednesday. I told you how to make yourself study English on Thursday. And … [Read more…]
This is how to make yourself study English. Change your phone’s settings to English if you haven’t already (or if you can). Change your computer’s OS language to English (if you can). In your work or college bag, take out any books, magazines or anything else that you don’t need that is not English and … [Read more…]
Wikipedia in English has been very complex and scientific, and very difficult for a lot of students to understand. However, now, there is Simple English Wikipedia. Don’t be afraid to use Simple Wikipedia; it’s worth looking at topics you know in your own language to build intermediate-level vocabulary (and even some common technical vocabulary).