Many people think you need to live in a foreign country, have a close
foreign friend, or spend long nights with your head buried in a boring
grammar book, to master English…In fact, you can become a very
successful learner of English if you follow some basic rules.
1. Relax and enjoy speaking
When you use English, don’t worry about making mistakes. The chances
are you will always make small mistakes when speaking a foreign
language. The important thing is to learn from the errors you make.
Babies don’t learn to walk without falling over a lot!
2. Learn about how you learn
Recent research has shown that many of us have a preferred way of
learning. If you are a visual learner, you can link language to pictures
and images. Watch films with subtitles, try to visualise yourself in
imaginary situations speaking English, fix words with pictures in your
mind If you have an auditory style, you have a ‘good ear’ for language
and should listen to as much music as possible and watch movies in
English. If you have an analytic style, then spend time studying grammar
and comparing Vietnamese with English. A learner with an interactive
style needs to spend as much time as possible speaking with others,
discussing language and generally working in a team. A really good
learner spends time on all these styles. Yet it is a sad fact that all
over the world, many people are still taught in a traditional style that
favours analytic and auditory learners.
3. Learn memory techniques
There are plenty of books on how to improve your memory. It is a skill that the successful learners I know take very seriously.
4. Immerse yourself
I once visited the home of a Spanish student who was actually quite a
successful businessman. His house was littered with those small pieces
of yellow paper called post-it notes! Every time he went to the kitchen
to make a cup of coffee, to the bathroom to shave or used the remote
control to change channel, he looked at those words. Again and again and
again. Once the word was fixed in his mind, he put the paper into a
file that he looked through at the end of the week. This way, he learnt
10 words a day, seven days a week. Read, listen and speak English at
every opportunity! The best musicians and football players practise
their skill over and over. The skill of communicating in a foreign
language is the same.
5. Get Connected
I recently met someone who three times a week leaves her small
village outside Hanoi, travels 1 hour on a motorbike and when she
arrives at her destination, speaks in English for two hours to her
friends in Britain, Australia and the US. Her destination? An Internet
Café with voice chat facilities in the nearest small town. When I met
her, she had never spoken to a foreigner face to face before, but after
only two months of practising, she could hold a conversation with me in
English.
The Internet has brought so many benefits to language learners. You
can find great sites for practising grammar, vocabulary, listening,
pronunciation and now, most importantly of all, speaking.
6. Learn Vocabulary systematically
Remember that learning English is not just about learning grammar.
When we speak, we express most of our ideas through our choice of
vocabulary, through collocations and fixed expressions. Think carefully
about how you organise your notebook, don’t just write a long list of
new words! Try to divide your notebook into sections. Here are some
ideas…
subject pages; shopping, holidays, money verbs and nouns that go together; do your homework; make a cake expressions which use common words; overweight, to get over something, over the moon phrasal verbs; to grow up, to tell off, to look after fixed expressions; on the other hand, in my opinion, by the way idioms; once in a blue moon, to be over the moon, out of the blue expressions with prepositions; at night, at the weekend, in March, in 1988
Finally….
7. Get motivated: don’t put off until tomorrow, what you can do today.
In London, I had a Thai friend who was attending university there,
studying fashion design. Her English was excellent. She told me that
when she was fifteen she decided that it was her dream to study fashion
in the UK. She found out what IELTS score she needed and started
studying right away. When she was nineteen and old enough to go, she was
ready. Her early start was a smart move: when she returned to Thailand
after a year, some of her friends were still studying English, waiting
to go abroad to study. She is now fluent, well qualified and walked into
a great job!
(By Tim Hood – British Council)
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