MY LEARNING STRATEGIES IN LEARNING ENGLISH

In our daily lives, we can find some people have great inelegancy to learn foreign language; some of them are even skilful in several kinds of languages. But there are also some other people to whom a foreign language is too difficult. Why these kinds of thing happen? Actually, despite the genetic differences, to find one’s most useful strategies in learning will make a big difference. In this blog I want to write about some of my useful English-learning strategies. Such as memorizing new words, communicating and watching films.
First, I think memorizing new words by making sentences is a effective strategy. Even a very long article is consisted of short words and collocations. So enlarging our vocabulary is important. A man with wide vocabulary can perform well in oral communicating, writing and reading. But just remembering the spelling and meaning of a word is not useless. The word is easy to be forgotten in this way. I suggest that when see a new word, first, we should look it up in a dictionary to know the meaning of it and the example sentences, then, try to use the word to make sentences yourself. In this way not only the word can make a deep impression in your mind but also let you know to use it.
Another strategy is practicing speaking. The essential of English is a tool used to communicate. The more you speak the better your English will be better. We can practice in talking with our friend, tutors or native speakers. In practicing, we can learn to make sentences to express our feelings and find out whether we are correct or not. You will get improvement gradually in this progress.
The last one is watching English movies. In a movie, there are new words, the pronunciations of each word and what’s more important, ways in which native speakers make their sentences. Besides, when watching movies, you will be delight and concentrate all attentions on them. So the words, grammars or sentence patterns can live deep impressions on your mind. By the way, I don’t think it’s good to watch English movies with Chinese subtitles, or you will just focus on the plots, lose a chance to learn English.
Different people have different way in studying English. These are some of my learning strategies, I hope they are of some help to you.
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LIAO WEN HAO