1. Listen to English a lot
Many students who begin to study English ask: What is the advantage of listening without understanding? The answer is No matter! Listen to English frequently from news, conversations. The purpose of doing this is to create an English chat environment surrounding you, simultaneously make your brain forming how to pronounce correctly. The way of remembering pronunciation is very good for speaking skills.
Many websites for beginners who want to practice listening to English are VOA Special English, BBC English, Youtube…
2. Don’t study grammar
That’s true, studying English grammar is not good for communication. There is an interesting fact that is all children in speaking English countries don’t learn English grammar until they study secondary school, but those children can communicate in English very comfortably.
Instead of studying grammar, try to learn vocabulary and English daily phrases as much as possible. Knowing English daily phrases is very important for communication. If you just know grammar and don’t know many phrases, your interaction in communication is:
Ask: Your boyfriend lets you down, how do you feel?
Answer: I fell (think…) so sad (think again…) so upset.
However, if you know many English daily phrases, your answer will automatically push out:
Ask: Your boyfriend lets you down, how do you feel?
Answer: My heart is falling apart…
3. Study slowly but effectively
One mistake English learners always make that is they want to quickly study English. Many people try to learn hundreds of English words, phrases per day and the result is after some days later, just a few words or phrases exist in their brain.
The brain has 2 functions: memorize temporarily and memorize permanently. If learners try to memorize a new word, the brain will save and put that word in the temporarily memorizing section and you can remember that word for several hours till 1 day. However, if you memorize too many words and you don’t often use them, your brain considers those words as unnecessary words and delete them after sleeping.
Study slowly but effectively, learners should only study 10 words and 5 phrases every day to make sure remember it.
4. Practice English frequently
Practicing English frequently is the most important factor to learn English successfully for beginners. Practice what you have learned with friends or foreigners. One simple way is to join in training internet courses to communicate in English chat with many other people.
5. Reading texts were written in English
Firstly what you should read is funny stories, stories for kids, short stories, advertising trademarks, production trademarks… Later you try to read English texts which are long and more difficult. Start reading English from easy level to difficult level. If you start reading a difficult and complex text at first, you will be in trouble and will be discouraged to read. If you read English texts at the same level forever, it’s hard for you to improve your English, isn’t it?
Note: If you want to find the meaning of new words, you should use both the English-English dictionary and English-your native language dictionary because the English-English dictionary is very useful to help you learn synonyms and see how to use the new word.
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