What advice would you give to someone who is just begining the study of English language?
Learning English is the most difficult tasks I have ever encountered in my life. There are moments that I am extremely hopeless and I do not even know what I should do. As a result, I need teachers and students’ advice. In this post, I give some advice based on my personal experiences to my friends who is just begining the study of English Language and in upcoming posts, I will write about teachers’ advice, which I collect from different teachers and students who learned English successfully. The advice is related to how students can learn English better and effective ways of English studying. Here is some of my advice:
Do not look for shortcuts. I was looking for a simple and fast way to learn English but I understood that there is no such a way. The only way is studying hard and being responsible for my learning. The only person that can help me is just me. Learning a language is not easy and fast. It needs time and patience and of course discipline.
Attitude is the most important factors in the learning process. Learning English is like a road with a lot of bumps in it, up and down. Sometimes one skill will be improved easily and another time is the opposite. You do not even understand a talk or a reading passage. You can not comprehend a grammar rules and so on. All these difficulties make a student disappointed, thinking that there is no desire to continue learning English. But, a positive thinking overcome all the problems. All these negative thoughts has come to people’s mind while learning a second language. So, you are not the only person who faces these dilemmas. Consequently, think positive and imagine the time you understand English like a native speaker.
Repetition is a key role for learning. I thought that studying a lot of materials is better than one material. For example, reading 10 passages is better than one passage. But, I was totally wrong. Studying one passage carefully is more effective because every time you study mind catch more words from the passage and comprehension becomes more effective. Using a new vocabulary over and over makes learning easy and naturally. So, focus on one material and read or listen to it as much as possible.
What advice would you give to an English learner? I appreciate if you give your advice.