How to Learn English as a Native English
Speaker
Even
if you were born into English, it can be a tough language to master. It has
widely irregular spelling and pronunciation. English borrows words from all
sorts of different languages and new terms are emerging constantly.
Read, read, read! It doesn't matter a whole lot what you read, so choose
subjects that you like. Not everything in print is perfect, but the vast
majority of printed works, such as books and magazines, have been thoroughly
edited. You will pick up structures, tones and ideas from your reading. The
more you read, the more mistakes and problems will start to "look" or
"sound" wrong to you. Correctness will start to feel natural.
Listen to talk radio, podcasts, and audio books. It's good listening practice.
Audio books, especially, are an opportunity to hear writing. Besides hearing
words pronounced that aren't normally used in conversation, you'll hear complex
sentence structures inflected.
Read out loud, with intonation. If you have kids, read to them, and ham it up
with Dr. Seuss. Even if your dog or cat is the only one listening, reading
passages out loud is one way to interpret their structures, and it will make
you more conscious of their details.
Study the creation of works using proper English. What makes the artful imagery
in a novel so beautiful? What makes a good speech so persuasive?
Build your vocabulary. Reading
is the best way to do that since it exposes you to a far wider range of words
than conversation or spoken media, such as radio or television. Collect words
you don't know. In addition, browse in the dictionary, play word games, and
subscribe to a word of the day.
Play with the language. Start a pun war. Dust off your Scrabble game. Invent
your own word. Try your hand at a garden path sentence or enter the
Bulwer-Lytton contest for bad prose or one of its imitators. Making fun of the
language is a great way to explore it.
Brush up on the rules. Get hold of a copy of William Strunk's The Elements of
Style, a thin volume covering the essentials of good writing. If you prefer a
physical book, an updated version by Stunk and E.B. White is still in print.
Other style manuals discuss common, frequently-confused rules, too.
Practice writing. Write for a journal, blog, or wiki. Wikis, especially, need
writers and frequently come with a whole community of editors who will help
you. Whatever and wherever you write, practice daily, if possible. In email and
text messages, use complete sentences. That's writing, too.
Consider your audience. Just as you wear different clothing for different
weather, you should write or speak differently depending upon your audience.
Having an audience in mind will help to focus your communication, too.
Consider your purpose. Is this communication factual or fanciful? Are you
telling a story, arguing a point, or explaining a procedure?
Proofread your writing. Even a thorough grasp of English does not ensure
perfect typing or ideal sentence structures the first time around. Proofreading
will also tell you what sorts of things you regularly do wrong, so that you can
improve. Reading
out loud is a very good way to catch things you might have missed.
Have somebody else proofread your writing. Something that sounds right to you
may not make sense to somebody else.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Language takes extraordinary amounts of
practice to master, and mistakes are part of the learning process.
Try learning another language. It will make you more conscious of the
structures and grammar in your own. Many of the Latin-based and Germanic
languages have words and structures similar to those in English, and exploring
these similarities and differences will strengthen both languages.
Avoid trying too hard to perfect the accent and criticizing other people for
their not-so-perfect ones.
How to learn English well
I
am an English major. English has been,for some time, difficult for me to learn.
When all my efforts went to the dogs, you can imagine how upset I was!After
years of being a language learner, I come to know how to adjust myself to the
correct way of English learning. First of all,learning one thing,whatever it
may be,needs the push of achievements. We all become frustrated when we get the
bad result.To make things worse,those irritating feelings may handicap our
potential ability.So,first of all,just tryto find a field we can prove our
abili ty in English learning. You may think that you are not a qualified
language learner,that you don't possess the in-born ability to learn
English.Throw all these stuff into the nearst trash can!Remember,always tell
yourself that you can make great achievements and that you are no slower than
others. Second,be patient.Rome was not built in a day.We all need time to make
progress.Reading may consume a lot of your time,especailly in the situation
that you read some profound material.When you find that your precious time has
drained away while seemingly little progress has been made,you become
disappointed and want to forget all those stuff. You may even tell yourself
that there is no way for you to make any improvement in reading.You are
wrong.Learning English requires perseverance.You plant yourself there and read
English for several hours. You may be content with this single day.But can you
form this habbit? Oh,no,really boring.Someone may shake his head.To become a
really good English learner,howerver,you have to do this! Third,find a correct
way of learning things.Always check what your weak points lie in.Don't rush
through all the exercises.Reviewing what we have learned is very,very
important.Don't tell others how many exercises you have finished in order to
show how you have tried to learn better,but ask yourself whether you can give
correct answers or not. Fourth,apply what we have learned whenever
possible.Often forget the words you have just memorised?Use them!Apply them in
oral English or writing.That will help.That is my way of memorising
words.Whenever you find good sentences,copy them down and apply them in your
composition. Five,do more reciting.You have still enough room in your head,do
you? A few words to say.I am happy to share my experience in English learning
with you.I am still exploring a more scientific way of achieve more.I composed
series of articles in the fields of listening ,phonetics, oral
English,reading,writing,translation and interpreting in order to make some
pondering upon some possible learning methods.I am not an expert,and I am still
learning.
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