can anybody tell me how to learn English?

Question

I am 16 year old high school student who have just come to the US, my English is so bad that I can't even read and talk.
In China I am always the best in my class ,specially for my math and science .After I come to the US I found everything is so different, the culture and Language . It seems to me that learning Englsih is more important than learning science to me now . I find myself not improving Enlgish anymore , I don't know why.I don't know how to learn now.

Answer 1

Languages are a hobby with me. Whenever I expected to spend some time in a country, I would try to learn what I call "tourist language."

The best, and really only way, I can learn a new language is to immerse myself in it. I think that's true of most people, which is why places like the Defense Language Institute (DLI) immerses their language students in whatever language they are learning.

Here's how I immerse myself:

1. I study the vocabulary, grammar, and such several times a day...each time I sit down to go to the bathroom. Not very delicate, but it works...there is nothing more regular than being regular; so while sitting on the toilet is an ideal time to study the language.

2. Read, read, read in the language of choice...English in your case. Read newspapers, they are written at the eighth grade level; so they are relatively easy reading. Find parallel readers (Chinese-English) and read them.

3. Listen, listen, listen...TV, radio, person to person coversation. No matter what you read, nothing will help you more in conversational English than to get involved in conversation. You will find that English has many dialects; so you will hear words pronounced differently and, on occasions, different words will have different meanings depending on where the native English speaker came from (bonnet versus hood for the thing up front on a car for example).

4. Finally, but not least, talk, talk, talk...you are at a great advantage here because you live in a predominantly English speaking country. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, even native English speakers do...English is full of grammar rules, some of which make no sense whatsoever.

Having spent time in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, I am sure that more Chinese speak English than Americans speak Chinese. Your ability to speak a second language is admirable, I wish more Americans could.

Answer 2

Oddly enough, watch television and movies with the subtitles on. Try to get involved in groups or get a tutor.

Answer 3

chill withe the brothers & sisters more often