The Best Way I Recommend to Learn English 怎麼學英文最好?
Time flies like a intangible bird whose
value is charming but unable to be saved.
In September
1st, 2013, many senior highs are
turning into freshmen, stepping into their
new learning environment, and so do I.
Before we go to the different environment,
something cannot be mentioned -
our deficiency
in speaking and writing English.
As an educated student under Taiwan-culture
approach, including forcing me to memorizing
enormous vocabularies, what I've seen is that
talking to a foreigner in English troubles us.
From junior to senior, this period gives almost
6 years to students to learn it. Nevertheless,
due to such a high-pressure exam circumstance,
we only have reached a high level of reading
and listening without the two others. Even worse,
in many situations, like listening to CNN News
or reading a article from New York Times,
understanding what they are listening and
reading makes them frustrated. Another main
problem is that we don't teach students how to
learn English. In another words, teachers regard
it as a subject, not a communication tool.
Thus, high stress of learning it comes,
and deprive the fun of learning of students.
Let's recap to the topic :
How to Learn English Well?
Here I get two points for you.
First, a good way of learning a thing
should follow this route of four points:
- Set the Precise Goal :
What kind of level do you want to
reach? If you want to study aboard by
having a high TOFEL score, you may need
to pay more efforts. Or if you want to
get promotion by joining TOEIC test,
listening and reading skills are priorities.
- Make a well-planned Learning Route :
How much time are you planning to spare?
In daily life, how much time can you
spend everyday? Generally speaking,
15 minutes per day will be quite enough.
- Choose Proper Learning Tool :
In my opinion, this can be separated
into two stages, grammars and magazines :
- 英語句型與翻譯 written by 三民書局.
It tells you many useful grammars.
- You can choose your textbooks
by exams or choose a series of learning
magazines, like ABC to LiveABC to
All Plus from LiveABC Inc. or
大家說英語 to 空中英語教室 to
彭蒙惠英語 from StudioClassroom.
- Give yourself some pleasures
and power by learning it :
Think of something delightful when
you are tried of learning English,
like I can talk to Americans in English,
sounds cool, right? Try to give yourself
a reason to drive your learning engine.
Laziness can blows your efforts away
in a second.
Second, you may build some habits when learning it :
- Try to memorize the way of expression
the author used as possible. For example,
in Chinese 我吃飽了, cannot not be stated
like "I had enough." It'd be stated like
"I have had a lot." In this part, you need
to "understand" it and then memorize it.
- Always speak the paragraph, either dialogues
or articles will be fine. Use multi-senses
to help you learn quicker.
- Listen podcast and read good article.
Good podcasts may be ESL-English as
Second Language, BBC World Service,
APM-American Public Media and so forth.
Excellent articles come from The Economists,
International Herald Tribune and so on.
By making a plan and keeping those habits when
learning English, you may see more progress appear.
Have fun!
