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Repetition, over and over again. Walk around with head phones and listen, listen listen. Practice speaking. You will hardly need a memory by this way.

2006-12-02 18:49:47 · answer #1 · answered by lindakflowers 6 · 0 0

You learn a language best when you are communicating, so get a pen-pal (email me!), and talk to your friends who are learning English as much as you can. Don't be shy. Tell people that you want to be corrected, because in American culture (or at least in the culture that I was raised in), it is rude to correct people unless you are close to them or know they want your help. This means that you might not get the correction you are looking for from native speakers unless you tell them you are comfortable being corrected.

There are two ways of "knowing" a language: (1) learning: school stuff, the grammar rules, studying vocab lists, etc. (2) acquiring: actually internalizing the rules so that you produce grammatical sentences. Once you have "acquired" a language, you know it, you don't have to think about whether your subject is plural and what the plural form of the verb is; you just know it. This is your goal.

Another thing you can do on your own is find English with meaningful context. Read the newspaper, read sports pages (whatever appeals most to you), or watch TV/movies in English. Listen to music and try to understand the lyrics. Thanks to the Internet, this should be much easier than it was even 15 years ago. Check the "Sources" section of my answer for some Web sites that you might be interested in. Whatever you do, do something that you like, something that interests you.

A Few Words of Caution: I don't know how old you are, but chances are that you have already hit puberty. After puberty, it becomes very hard to train your vocal muscles to pronounce the new sounds that English most likely has (and I mean "new" in relation to the sounds in your language(s) ), so don't get discouraged if you are never able to pronounce English correctly. Most people who learn a language after this "critical period" cannot attain perfect pronunciation.

Learning a language, and especially getting a "full command" over it, takes a long time. Do not give up or feel stupid, and don't compare yourself to others who seem to be learning it more quickly. Language is very complex and even I am still learning things about this language that I have been speaking for, well, let's just keep that part a secret. I've been speaking it a long time: let's say that.

2006-12-02 19:28:33 · answer #2 · answered by xgravity23 3 · 0 0

Repetition - we learn most things best by doing them, and it the same with languages.

Also, trying watching children's cartoons. They have a tendency to speaker slightly slower and with more pauses between sentences than other TV or radio. It will give you more of a chance to process as you listen. Watching Italian cartoons really helped me when I was learning Italian.

2006-12-02 18:59:51 · answer #3 · answered by Elise K 6 · 0 0

By speaking with people who know the language , will not laugh at your mistakes but will corrrect u.This is how u learnt ur mother tongue.

2006-12-02 18:58:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

creating more interest towards language and doing hard work continuasly.

2006-12-03 04:12:05 · answer #5 · answered by Bharatbhai T 1 · 0 0

practice

2006-12-06 05:57:32 · answer #6 · answered by kaleem u 1 · 0 0

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