Before
you start reading, you should know this: Learning English requires
action. You may know all the learning tips, but if you don't start
doing things, you will achieve nothing. Therefore our method is not
just for reading; it is for reading and doing.
You need two
things to learn English well — passion and effective learning methods —
and passion is the more important one. Why? Because passion makes you
want to learn English; the learning methods only tell you how to do it
faster.
If you love learning English:
You will do it regularly and spend more time on it.
Learning
English will be easier for you. It will be easy for you to remember new
words and grammar structures. It's because the brain easily remembers
information on a subject that you like. (For example, some people like
history and know everything about World War II. If you told a "normal
person" to memorize all these facts, they would never do it.)
We
know you may not love learning English. And even if you love it, you
will sometimes not want to do it. This is how human psychology works —
sometimes we are so lazy, bored, and tired that we don't want to do
even the things that we like.
Here is what you can do when you don't feel like learning English:
Imagine yourself in the future
Imagine
you can talk to native speakers just like you talk in your first
language. Imagine other people wanting to speak English as well as you
do. Imagine the possibility of writing e-mail to people from all over
the world.
It is helpful to read an article about the
advantages of knowing English well. There are two such articles on
Antimoon: Why learn English and English makes you feel good.
You should know that it is possible to learn English really well. Just look at other people who have done it.
Remember that you are already good
You
already know some English (you're reading an article in English right
now). That's a big success! Now it's time for more successes. Time to
start using powerful methods of effective learning. Time to gain an
impressive knowledge of English.
Remember there is a lot that you don't know
You
are good, but your English probably isn't perfect. You probably can't
understand English-language TV, read books in English, talk to native
speakers easily, write letters without mistakes, etc.
You
should never think your English is perfect. Even if you are the best
student in your class, always try to find your weak areas and work on
them. When you've learned to speak English well, your problems will be
quite small: punctuation, rarely used grammar structures, rare words,
understanding "street language". Right now, your problems are probably
more basic: mistakes in pronunciation, small vocabulary, grammar
problems with the present perfect tense and conditional structures.
Use your English whenever you can
This is very, very important. The more you use English, the more you will want to learn it.
Because
English is so popular, you can use it everywhere. You can use Yahoo to
find English-language websites with interesting information, you can
watch American cartoons, you can play adventure games on your computer,
you can read interesting books in English, or you can do other things
that we write about.
If you do these things, you will not only
have fun and learn English. If you see that a new English word lets you
understand your favorite TV show (or communicate with people, or beat a
computer game), you will want to learn more words. So you will learn
English more, use it more, learn it more, use it more... If you also
use effective learning methods, your English will grow faster than you
can imagine.
Talk to people about English
This is a very simple method, but it is very effective. Here's how it works:
You
usually talk about things which interest you. But the opposite is true,
too. If you start talking about a boring subject, you will begin to get
interested in it.
Imagine you are studying a subject that you
hate. You are bored and tired, but you have to pass the test tomorrow.
If there are people near you, you have two options: you can tell
everybody how much you are suffering or you can tell those people about
the things you've learned. If you choose the first option, you will
only feel worse.
If you choose the second option, and start a
conversation on the "boring" subject, you will begin to look at it in a
totally different way. Suddenly it will become a subject worth talking
about — therefore, an interesting subject.
How can you begin
such a conversation? If you're studying English, you can surprise
another person by talking to him/her in English. Say (in English): Hi,
I'm studying English and I hate it. Or you can say (in your first
language): Hey, I've learned 50 English words today. Do you know what's
the English word for ...? If there are no people near you, you can
telephone or send an e-mail message to your friend.
What will
your friends say? Probably they won't be very interested, but it
doesn't matter! The important thing is this: After talking about
English, you will study it with much more passion. Try it.
Find a friend who is learning English
If you can find a friend who is learning English and is on a similar level of skill, you will be in an excellent situation:
you
will have someone to talk about English with. These conversations will
increase your interest in English, as explained in the previous
section.
learning English will be easier, because you will be able to discuss your problems with your friend.
you will study English more, because you will want to be better than your friend. :-)
You
should meet your friend regularly. Ideally, he/she should live near
you, or go to the same school as you. If you absolutely can't find
anybody willing to learn English with you, you can try to find somebody
by e-mail. This is a worse solution: your conversations will probably
be less frequent, and it is difficult to compete with someone who you
don't know well.
Spend some money on learning English
If
you spend your money on something, you will want to use it. For
example, if you buy an expensive tennis racket, you will probably go
out and play tennis every day.
This rule is also true for
learning English. If you want to increase your desire to learn English,
buy a new dictionary, a new SuperMemo collection, an interesting
English-language book, English-language cable TV, etc. The idea is
simple: You paid for it, so you will want to use it, and you will
improve your English.
There is a problem with this method. It
only works for a short time. You usually lose your desire to learn
English after a few days. To keep learning, you would have to buy
something every week!
However, this method is helpful, because
it gives you an impulse to start learning. For example, if you buy a
dictionary of phrasal verbs, you will probably learn some words from
it. Then you should try to use them. For example, write an e-mail
message with these words. This will increase your motivation (as
explained before), and you will learn more.
Read Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins
Anthony
Robbins' book Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
gives excellent advice on how to achieve any kind of goal. This book
has changed the lives of many people, so you might want to take a look
at it.
Remember that learning English requires action
We
have said this many times. One small action is more powerful than
reading hundreds of articles. Yes, we know it is very hard to do
things, even if they are good for us. We humans are lazy creatures.
That is why not many people speak English well.
Still, we hope
you can do the things we talk about in our English learning method —
not only read about them. You will be successful only if you change
something about your life
الثلاثاء فبراير 17, 2015 1:19 pm من طرف abomalak
