Not everyone should become polyglots and learn dozens of foreign languages, but everyone should become a person twice( remember, the famous phrase), having learned immaculately native language and English, everyone should.
Here is just where to start learning English so that such a good motivation does not end yet at the preparatory stage?
I will share with you my experience learning English and the experience of my girlfriend.
Where to start learning English and what's stopping us?
I do not know what's wrong with our education system, but the total number of graduates of regular schools knows English at the level of "London from the capital of Great Britain", "May nime from. .." and "AYM ondity tudey."
The modern youth( not all, fortunately) seems to understand that a good knowledge of English is a step to success that must necessarily be overcome, but either does not know where to start learning English, whether from children they require little in school,or poorly taught, but a language barrier can be taken by few.
Well, okay, the school with its bad teachers and your youth-stupidity was left behind.
Now you are an adult.
What are your excuses now? What's stopping you right now?
And I'll tell you.
You are only hampered by laziness.
No matter how you nod at the lack of free time, lack of money for a tutor, the absence of a good course in your city, no matter how you convince yourself "I'll go to the decree and do English" - all these are excuses.
You do not want to start learning a foreign language, because you're lazy.
As soon as you destroy such a dangerous enemy as laziness, immediately you will feel an irresistible desire to engage.
You just need to start learning English!
I'll tell you a little secret: you have already started to learn English.
Do you know when you did this?
When watching English-language films with subtitles when they were staring at an advertisement or a sign in English, when they read labels on clothing in a boutique, when they were laughing and repeating the movie and literary heroes: "Astalavista, baby" or "" etc.
There are no people in our country, maybe with the exception of ancient old men in deaf villages who would have zero level of knowledge.
And if you also taught at school "little by little, something and somehow" English, then you already did a third of the work.
It remains only to fix the result.
You just need to do more serious language learning.
That's right today, not feeding yourself endless breakfasts:
- Decide whether you will be studying English yourself or with someone's help.
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Find online audio lessons.
Here, for example, here they are: http://www.free-english-online.org/audiouroci.
- Start watching your favorite cartoons, movies and TV shows in the original language( for the beginning you can limit subtitles).
- Buy a small dictionary in the bookstore( so what, what is an online translator, a book is a book and it will always be at hand!).
- Buy or again find online several children's books or comics in English and read them, looking for translation of unfamiliar words in the dictionary.
Do everything I have listed today, and you can assume that you have already started learning English.
The main thing - tomorrow not to throw everything, but to find the strength to comprehend the wisdom of foreign speech.
How to start learning English by yourself?
Let's say you decided not to feed the bourgeois tutors, but to learn English yourself.
Do not know where to start?
And why would you start teaching your child a native language?
Correct: with the alphabet.
After learning the English alphabet, proceed to replenish the vocabulary.
First it is desirable to master:
- digits;
- days of the week and months;
- colors;
- greeting, farewell, apology;
- names of animals, flowers, vegetables, fruits, etc.- in general, those words that you most often use in conversation.
Gradually go to the grammar to understand how the sentences are built.
The grammar of English is not very simple, so you can not do without textbooks.
When you master the basic grammar rules and will have a more or less decent vocabulary, begin to build sentences and even - whole texts.
I do not know why school teachers still believe that senseless cramming of foreign texts helps to learn English faster.
It does not help!
In fact, the greatest benefit comes from:
- cards or stickers with foreign words;
- watching movies, news, programs - just watch more often some English-language channel in the network or on a plate;
- reading books;
- audio and video tutorials;
- communication with native speakers of a foreign language.
Where to start learning English if you need professional help?
My friend Ira at school was studying German( well, she was studying - she said loudly, because she could not speak it anyway).
After settling down for her first job, Ira realized that without knowledge of English, she could not be promoted by service.
Since her level was very very modest, she decided to find a teacher.
The girlfriend considered various options:
- private tutor;
- group courses;
- online training, etc.
Decided to stay on the first option, because the group was embarrassed to engage in, and did not trust online training.
Tutor she was looking for ads on the network and the local newspaper.
How to pass an interview in English?
First tutor Ira categorically did not like.
She was a retired teacher, who still taught English "in the old-fashioned way."
The second one also did not impress: the student seemed to know the language very well, but she did not understand how to train an adult person.
The third sleek lady of 20 minutes out of 45 boasted of her travels.
Only the fourth girl( a graduate of the philological faculty, who worked for two years in the US) arranged my girlfriend for all indicators.
To start learning English, also listen to the advice
voiced in this video:
How to start learning English with a tutor: 4 councils
Here's what I advised Ira my readers who also want to start learning a foreign language with a tutor or on courses:
- Require a trial lesson( albeit not free, but it should be cheaper than usual).
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Do not expect that for 5 cents you can find a great teacher.
Remember that "cheap fish is a bad ear."
How to start learning English: advice of an expatriate
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Do not agree to pay in advance for several sessions with a tutor( for example, 10), even if you are offered a discount.
It is likely that you will want to change the teacher, and no one will return the money to you.
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If something does not suit you in the teacher - change it immediately.
You pay money, which means you do not have to be content with an unqualified teacher.
And Ira advised not to be lazy to do at home and carry out all the advice of a tutor.
The fact that you decided to finally sign up for a tutor is not yet a guarantee that in the last lesson you will speak this language fluently.
You can go on courses for years( remember how many years you studied a foreign language at school) and stay at the level "below the baseboard".
Use every free minute to enrich your vocabulary and then everything will turn out.
Still not sure, where to start learning English language?
I'll tell you the most effective and pleasant technique: buy a ticket to the US or the UK and live here for at least a month, using every free minute to communicate with the local.