Tips to learn English quickly
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Sign up for a regular English tip
Some websites offer a weekly or even daily short English lesson sent
to your email account. If your mobile phone has an e-mail address, it is
also possible to have the tips sent to your phone to read on the way to
work or school. Please note, however, that such services are not usually
graded very well to the levels of different students, and they should be
used as a little added extra or revision in your English studies rather
than as a replacement for something you or your teacher have chosen more
carefully as what you need to learn.
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Start English lessons
Even if you don’t need to speak English at work, English lessons can
be a fun and reasonably priced way for your company to spend their
training budget in a popular way.
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Read a translation into English
Another way of making sure books are easier to understand is to
choose a book that was originally translated into English, preferably
from your own language. Even if you haven’t read the book in your own
language, you will find the English is written in a slightly simplified
way that is more similar to how your own language is written than a book
originally written in English would be.
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Listen to English music
Even listening to music while doing something else can help a little
for things like getting used to the natural rhythm and tone of English
speech, although the more time and attention you give to a song the more
you will learn from listening to it again in the future.
Watch English movies with English
subtitles
For people who can’t understand a film without subtitles but find
themselves not listening at all when reading subtitles in their own
language, this should be the way of watching a film that you should aim
for. If it is too difficult to watch the whole film this way, try
watching the (usually important) first 10 or 15 minutes of the film with
subtitles in your own language, switch to English subtitles after that,
and only switch back to subtitles in your own language if you get
totally lost following the story of the film.
Read
the whole thing with no help
Although using a dictionary has been shown to help with both short
term and long term learning of vocabulary, the fact that using it slows
reading down can stop some people reading in English at all. Reading a
whole book quickly through just for pleasure from time to time will help
you remember how fun reading in another language can be.
Read a book with lots of dialogue
Opening up books before you buy one and flicking through them to find
one with lots of direct dialogue in it has several advantages. If there
is less text on the page due to all the speech marks etc, this can make
it easier to read and easier to write translations on. Dialogue is also
much easier to understand than descriptive parts of a book, and is much
more like the language you will want to learn in order to be able to
speak English.
Vocabulary list
Even if you don’t often find time to go though your vocab list and it
keeps on building up, just the act of choosing which words you need to
learn and writing them down on a special list can help you learn them.
Online chat
The closest thing to speaking for people who don’t have the chance to
speak English is online chat, as you have to think and respond quickly,
and the language is short and informal just like speech.Record your own
voice. For people who don’t have much or any correction of pronunciation
from a teacher, recording yourself and listening back makes it easier to
hear whether you are really making the English sounds that you are
trying to or not.
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