I have studied in a school where language is taught as subject and not as a language(difference is there). Because parents wants their child to be taught in english but quality lies in few school. Iam not blaming my school they gave me wonderful education so as to understand my knowledge levels. I am proud to be a student of my school. I want to improve my language skills both written and spoken.Any suggestions friends.
2007-02-26 01:43:42 · 13 answers · asked by Chan 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Reading helps a lot... Read interesting books, as also newspapers....and listening to english commentary, english movies, will help you for pronunciations, then start conversing in english, and steadily you'll be able to master this language as its not so difficult too!!
2007-02-26 01:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by jshreyasi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The following is my suggestion:-
1) Keep reading quality newspapers and magazines in English regularly.
2) Keep watching the English News channels regularly and follow the way the speakers speak English;
3) Become a member of the British Council Library. They have even on line service. Join their course on English language.
4) Try and speak English with others when occasion demands and do not hesitate for fear of faltering. A child learns to walk after encountering many a fall.
2007-03-03 07:08:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no shortcuts to vocabulary. You must read as much as you can. I advice reading books in subjects of your interest. I find that when I try to read those "good books" that everyone suggest, I eventually give up. Reading allows you to learn vocabulary in context.
I have a friend from Mainland China who memorized the Oxford dictionary. However, most of the people in school couldn't understand him because of his strange sentence structures. He's actually a science genius, but he couldn't express his ideas. He couldn't even handle basic conversation with teachers. Like he would miss his exams because he doesn't know what "Friday after the next" means.
To improve pronunciation, you can go to voice classes. Most of my musician friends can pick up language fast because they are good at listening. Listen carefully how each letter is pronounced. Practise. Practise. Practise.
Conversation classes offered by the British Council helped me a lot on my pronunciation. http://www.britishcouncil.org/
Also try the BBC languages website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
My last and most important tip is that you must have very THICK SKIN. You can't learn unless you've made mistakes.
2007-02-26 10:45:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Feel existence of english nearabout. Try to understand and in case of even little bit difficulty, see meaning in dictionary.Example: See the hoardings of advertisement, try to read the writings on rappers of daily needed items and watch these writings again on next purchase. Today I was shaving observed new word on Shave Cream Wrapper " Nick" mean small cut. Now meaning of Nick will not erase from my memory & it will got further force when I will see this wrapper next time.
2) List radio/ TV news regularly first in yr mother language and then in English. Try to speak aloud these news lator on.
3) Read newspaper (or what ever u read) consciously. Consious ready helps a lot to increase vocabulary.
4) Take help of Internet website like: www.wordsurfing.co.uk and Wikipedia.org etc.
5) Try to think in English
2007-03-02 05:05:22 · answer #4 · answered by Kuldeep R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good way to improve is to listen to recorded stories, available from the library. This will improve both your vocabulary and your pronounciation.
Consider writing to someone on a regular basis to improve your written skills. you could do this by email or regular mail. Ask them to point out where you are making big mistakes in your writing.
Good luck. Your English seems pretty good to me! Stick at it.
2007-02-26 09:53:05 · answer #5 · answered by catfish 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be good if you could get a teacher to teach you spoken English.
Meanwhile, you can listen to news in English on the radio or TV.
Take a dictionary and select 5 words at random and learn their meanings and see how they are pronounced.
Then use those words in sentences.
Read the news paper aloud .
Join a library and read books.
2007-02-26 22:45:37 · answer #6 · answered by Kamal M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
set the goal right first ,,that i can do anything for better english language>>> then start from the basics of modular english vocabulary grammer book ,, try to read as much as english newspaper daily,,, make a habit of noting down atleast 25 english word on the paper & don't forget to look those words regularily >>
2007-02-26 09:52:41 · answer #7 · answered by shiba 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spent at least 6-8 months in any English speaking country (native), if you need to have good results.
2007-03-01 06:39:48 · answer #8 · answered by Ganesh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u have to read and maintain a dictionary and basically have passion for the lingo till u get it the way u want to tae care and best of luck
2007-02-26 10:19:24 · answer #9 · answered by niss 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
many centres which teach spoken english and written english
so you can contact these centres which is nearer to your house
this will help you.
2007-02-26 10:08:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋