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Posted: 04 March 2010 11:43 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hello all. so happy i could read some of suggestion given through this forum. Thanks so much for Janine, Labni, Nguyen and others. Shortly i do understand that practising L2 is not as easy as we think before. It is exactly like how a baby learn his mother tongue for the first time. The baby is listening first from his surroundings then, he remembers the words till the time for uttering the words out at the time he could just speak. The problem now is, how this method is simply applied to young or adult learners while their environments do not support them to listen more the English words. Well I’ve tried a lot of ways. for example, playing some audios; unsubtitled movie, songs exposures, also this spotlight programs for times but still the problem is frozen. uhg… i am tired… help me?

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Posted: 08 February 2011 05:05 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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It should be a way, some simple method to learn English. Seems to me the traditional courses are not able to teach English in a way to make a student capable to speak. I think all those grammar rules discourage students.
I was studying English for years and seems to me that I am in a deadlock.
I was looking for some interesting method in internet, I was pleasantly surprised about Basic English, I can’t understand how they could translate the whole Bible with only 850 words.
I tried to follow it but I find it hard to express oneself without using verbs. (maybe it is useful for people at its first experience)

As you all said here, studying grammar is not the natural way to learn English, children learns to speak before they can read.

The natural way to learn is by listen to, if one lives in a country where all people speak English it become natural to start to speak English.
It doesn’t matter if you are adult or children, it works for all people all the time.
I learned Spanish by living two years in Spain without having studied it before.
I learned Italian by living in Italy even without having studied it before.
When the words that you hear every day fill your mind, you starts to thinking in that language, and when you need to express your thoughts the words come out naturally.

If we can’t go to live in a country where people speak English, maybe if we listen to English every day we succeed to do it. I hope!

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Posted: 23 February 2011 05:59 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Hello everyone,
its very pleasure to read yours comments.I think words should go first.I can’t talk in English fluently but whatever I have learn its only for knowing lot of English word

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Posted: 23 February 2011 04:33 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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IMO There are two different topics about languages:

1) what you can learn by your eyes (reading and writing)

2) what you can learn by your ears (listening)

The first one is what you learn at school on the books the second one is what you learn by listen and speak with people.

By my personal experience, I think it is necessary to listen to English spoken for a long, long time until you can understand at least 85%/90%, then you will be
able to start speaking.
This is my theory because every language that learned was in that way. 

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Posted: 27 February 2011 03:56 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Hello everyone

All children learn first of all to speak english, after that them learning write after that rules.

In my opiniom this is the best way to lern english.

Excuse-me for my mistakes.

God bless you all

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