Whenever we decide to do anything, we must resort to methods and strategies. So is our learning English. Once you find a good way to improve your English, the way will benefit you a lot.
I would like to share my learning strategies with you. I hope some of them may be useful for you to improve your own English learning.
First, I want to put emphasis on learning phonetic. Just like you build up a tall building, it is important for you to deal with each ceramic tile carefully. Knowing the right way to pronounce a new word is essential for you to communicate with others in English. If not, you can only read English rather than hear and speak English.
Secondly, we should master a large number of vocabularies. I felt frustrated when I met with many new words in a reading material. It took me a lot of time to look them up in a dictionary. After I have recorded them, I almost forget the main idea of the article. So I tried to use another way to avoid this problem, I searched on the internet to download some words which appear in the newspaper with high frequency. I recited them and reviewed them frequently. It took me some time, but the return was also worthy of it. I found there fewer words for me to conquer when I was reading.
Thirdly, resorting to different kinds of reading materials may be another good way. There are many good books which are specially designed for Chinese learners such as family album USA. This book is interesting because we can learn pure spoken language while watching DVD. All the texts in this book are plays which are put on the screen. You may find it fun to learn English.
Last but not least, you can watch foreign movies when you are relaxing. You can enjoy the movie while practicing your listening. I know that many students like watching latest movies. But one thing we should insure is that we just watch them for pleasure. We should study hard in other ways to improve our English.
These are my learning strategies, I hope they can benefit you in your progress of learning English. And I will improve my ways of learning English as well.
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Thanks for sharing,Ranbo. You`ve suggested some good strategies like looking up high word frequencies, watching Western movies for entertainment. I fully agree one cannot be studying the language all the time; one should make learning fun too.
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