Saturday, January 07, 2006

How to Learn English

Today while I was listening to the radio, they broadcast "What is the best way to study English". In that program, there's an English teacher who is from California. She told us, if you want to improve your English more, I recommend you to try to do these ways. I always recommend these to my students.

1. Listen to the radio
2. Listen to English music
3. Read children's books
4. Talk with native speakers as much as you can

No. 1 I missed to hear a reason, but No. 2 she said, lyrics have a lot of idiom and you can learn pronunciation without stress, because songs make you happy, don't they? No. 3 children's books have a simple grammar and lot of pictures, so you can increase your vocabulary easily. And No. 4 Talking is the best way to progress your English, of course.

I've been in Montreal just 3 month, I feel my English is improving these days. It's strange and fun. When I was in Japan, I'd never expected that I could speak in English. I'm very impressed a human brain, now I believe this sentence "You'll be getting used to it". I'm very proud of my brain's flexibility, thank you my parents. I'm proud of your way to raise children. :-)


Go abroad! Find something interesting!!

1 Comments:

At 8:58 PM, January 07, 2006, Blogger chiepet said...

Hi John,
Why did I come to Canada? I came here as a working holiday, working holiday visa is very easy to get and it includes 1 year work permit. It's a very useful visa, I can study at ELS and I can work in Canada.
U.S. doesn't have a that kind of visa and it's supposed be expensive to live in U.S. And I want to study English, so Mexico isn't suitable, isn't it?
Why did I chose Montreal? There're few Japanese, that's it!

 

Post a Comment

<< Home