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1. 1
How to learn English well
1. Motivation: Become a person who likes to learn English.
2. Dictionary: Get a good English dictionary.
3. No mistakes: Avoid mistakes. Try to use correct English from the beginning.
4. Pronunciation: Learn to pronounce English sounds. Learn to understand
phonetic transcription and the phonetic alphabet.
5. Input: Get English into your head by reading and listening to lots of English
sentences.
Reading
Movies
Adventure games
6. SuperMemo is a computer program that you can use to learn English. We
have used it for 8 years and it has helped us a lot.
Motivation for learning English
What is necessary to learn English well? You have to change your life a little —
do crazy things like talking to yourself in English or spending your evening reading a
dictionary. In order to do these things, and do them regularly, you have to enjoy
doing them. If you are like most learners and don't feel like doing these things, you
will have to work on your motivation.
Improving your motivation for learning English: We share our psychological
tricks that helped us enjoy learning English and that you can use to boost your
motivation and make a difference in your English.
What is necessary to learn English well?
Learning English requires action. You may know all the learning tips, but if you don't
start doing things, you will achieve nothing. The fact is, if you want to learn to speak
English well, you must change your life. Here are some examples of things you will
have to do:
read a book in English for an hour every day, analyzing the grammar in
sentences and looking up words in an English dictionary
listen to an audiobook or other recording in English, stopping it frequently,
trying to understand what is being said, and trying to imitate the speaker's
pronunciation
spend your afternoon practicing the pronunciation of the English "r" sound
carefully write an e-mail message in English, using a dictionary or a Web
search every 20 seconds to make sure every word is correct, and taking 5
minutes to write one sentence
think about an English sentence you've read, wondering if it could say "a"
instead of "the" in the sentence, and trying to find similar sentences on the
Web to find out the answer
2. 2
walk down the street and build simple English sentences in your head (talking
to yourself in English about the things you see around you)
What kind of person would do all these crazy things? Only one kind. The kind of
person who enjoys doing them. If you want to learn to speak English well, you're
going to have to become that person. You cannot hate doing these things. Have you
ever heard of a person who became successful by doing something he hated?
The problem with learning and teaching English as a foreign language is that all
English learners want to speak English well; however, most learners don't want to
spend time on learning English on their own. (Which is probably why they sign
up for English classes and hope their teacher will force knowledge into their heads.)
This lack of motivation means that learners basically don't spend their own time on
learning English, and if they do, they don't do it regularly. For example, a typical
learner might study English phrasal verbs for 12 hours before an English exam.
However, he will not read a book in English for 30 minutes every day. He just
doesn't feel that learning English is pleasant enough, so he will only do it if he has
to. The problem is that a huge one-time effort gives you nothing, while small,
everyday activities will give you a lot.
If you are one of those learners and don't feel like practicing the pronunciation of the
"r" sound or thinking about English sentences every day, we have news for you:
You're going to have to make yourself want to do these things. In other words,
you'll have to work on your motivation. Fortunately, there are proven techniques to
help you with that.
Typical learner vs. motivated learner
Paula is a typical learner of English with a generally low level of motivation. She
has occasional moments of high motivation — like the day before her English test or
that time when she couldn't communicate with a foreign customer who called her at
work. These kind of situations make her think "I've got to do something about my
English!". However, they happen very rarely — less than once a month. So even if
she studies quite intensively (e.g. for two whole days before an exam), the results
are poor, because she forgets 90% of the things she learned within a month. This is
no surprise: The way human memory works, you need to review things all the time;
otherwise you just forget them.
Now let's look at a different English learner: Judy. Judy reads a special novel for
English learners (written in simplified English) almost every day for 30 minutes. She
bought an English-English dictionary and uses it to look up English words whenever
she doesn't understand a sentence in her book. It was hard to study regularly at the
beginning: Reading books and using a dictionary were not "normal activities" for her.
And every English sentence was a challenge.
But now, after only two weeks, she can read much faster. While reading, she often
sees words that she has learned in the past two weeks. When she recognizes such a
word, she doesn't have to look it up in a dictionary and she knows she has made
good progress. Judy feels she has learned a lot of English recently, and she is eager
to learn more. Every day, she looks forward to reading her book. The book gives her
the chance to use what she has learned (enjoy her progress) and to learn even
more. Because she reads regularly, she forgets little and her vocabulary keeps
growing.
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Judy is on the right track. She will soon be able to read English-language
newspapers and other resources written for native speakers.
Enjoyment leads to better memory
If you enjoy learning English, you will spend more time on it, and you will do it
regularly. A high level of motivation will also give you another advantage. It will be
easier for you to memorize new words and grammar structures. The reason is that
the brain easily remembers information on a subject that you like. (For example,
some people like history and know everything about World War II. If you told a
"normal person" to memorize all these facts, they could never do it.) So enjoyment
of learning gives you double benefits.
Improving your motivation for learning
English
In this article, we share our techniques for improving your motivation for learning
English as a foreign language. We used them all the time when we were learning
English and we still use them when we need to boost our motivation in areas other
than English.
Imagine yourself in the future
Imagine you can talk to native speakers just like you talk in your first language.
Imagine other people wanting to speak English as well as you do. Imagine the
possibility of writing e-mail to people from all over the world.
It is helpful to read an article about the advantages of knowing English well. There
are two such articles on Antimoon: Why learn English and English makes you feel
good.
You should know that it is possible to learn English really well. Just look at other
people who have done it.
Remember that you are already good
You already know some English (you're reading an article in English right now).
That's a big success! Now it's time for more successes. Time to start using powerful
methods of effective learning. Time to gain an impressive knowledge of English.
Remember there is a lot that you don't know
You are good, but your English probably isn't perfect. You probably can't
understand English-language TV, read books in English, talk to native speakers
easily, write letters without mistakes, etc.
You should never think your English is perfect. Even if you are the best student in
your class, always try to find your weak areas and work on them. When you've
learned to speak English well, your problems will be quite small: punctuation, rarely
used grammar structures, rare words, understanding "street language". Right now,
your problems are probably more basic: mistakes in pronunciation, small vocabulary,
grammar problems with the present perfect tense and conditional structures.
4. 4
Use your English whenever you can
This is very, very important. The more you use English, the more you will want
to learn it.
Because English is so popular, you can use it. You can use Google to find English-
language websites with interesting information, you can watch American cartoons,
you can play adventure games on your computer, you can read interesting books in
English, or you can do other things that we write about.
If you do these things, you will not only have fun and learn English. If you see that a
new English word lets you understand your TV show (or communicate with people, or
beat a computer game), you will want to learn more words. So you will learn English
more, use it more, learn it more, use it more... If you also use effective learning
methods, your English will grow faster than you can imagine.
Talk to people about English
This is a very simple method, but it is very effective. Here's how it works:
You usually talk about things which interest you. But the opposite is true, too. If you
start talking about a boring subject, you will begin to get interested in it.
Imagine you are studying a subject that you hate. You are bored and tired, but you
have to pass the test tomorrow. If there are people near you, you have two options:
you can tell everybody how much you are suffering or you can tell those people
about the things you've learned. If you choose the first option, you will only feel
worse.
If you choose the second option, and start a conversation on the "boring" subject,
you will begin to look at it in a totally different way. Suddenly it will become a
subject worth talking about — therefore, an interesting subject.
How can you begin such a conversation? If you're studying English, you can surprise
another person by talking to him/her in English. Say (in English): Hi, I'm studying
English and I hate it. Or you can say (in your first language): Hey, I've learned 50
English words today. Do you know what's the English word for ...? If there are no
people near you, you can telephone or an e-mail message to your friend.
What will your friends say? Probably they won't be very interested, but it doesn't
matter! The important thing is this: After talking about English, you will study it with
much more passion. Try it.
Find a friend who is learning English
If you can find a friend who is learning English and is on a similar level of skill, you
will be in an excellent situation:
you will have someone to talk about English with. These conversations will
increase your interest in English, as explained in the previous section.
learning English will be easier, because you will be able to discuss your
problems with your friend.
you will study English more, because you will want to be better than your
friend. :-)
5. 5
You should meet your friend regularly. Ideally, he/she should live near you, or go to
the same school as you. If you absolutely can't find anybody willing to learn English
with you, you can try to find somebody by e-mail. This is a worse solution: your
conversations will probably be less frequent, and it is difficult to compete with
someone who you don't know well.
Spend some money on learning English
If you spend your money on something, you will want to use it. For example,
if you buy an expensive tennis racket, you will probably go out and play tennis every
day.
This rule is also true for learning English. If you want to increase your desire to learn
English, buy a new dictionary, an interesting English-language book, English-
language cable TV, etc. The idea is simple: You paid for it, so you will want to use it,
and you will improve your English.
There is a problem with this method. It only works for a short time. You usually lose
your desire to learn English after a few days. To keep learning, you would have to
buy something every week!
However, this method is helpful, because it gives you an impulse to start learning.
For example, if you buy a dictionary of phrasal verbs, you will probably learn some
words from it. Then you should try to use them. For example, write an e-mail
message with these words. This will increase your motivation (as explained before),
and you will learn more.
Read Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins
Anthony Robbins' book Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
gives excellent advice on how to achieve any kind of goal. This book has changed the
lives of many people, so you might want to take a look at it.
Remember that learning English requires action
We have said this many times. One small action is more powerful than reading
hundreds of articles. Yes, we very hard to do things, even if they are good for us.
We humans are lazy creatures. That is why not many people speak English well.
Still, we hope you can do the things we talk about in our English learning method —
not only read about them. You will be successful only if you change something about
your life.
Don't put it off. Begin now.