what is the better way to learn better enlish?

Answer 1

not out of a book!


think about how you aquired your primary language. when you were a baby words were modled for you over and over again until you understood their meaning and proper pronunciation and use.
Most of us cannot recall our first words but they usually seem to be very basic, (momma, daddy, cookie, doody, etc)
First we developed a vocabulary of single words, then we strung them together in simple sentences. Most of us did not learn syntax until we hit 2nd or 3rd grade, (past, present, future, posessive, etc.)
you need to have people model proper language for you,...your teacher, other friends who speak english well.
If your model is excellent and caring, then you will develop solid language skills.

Answer 2

Conversation. Some people say that watching TV improves your ability to understand a language as well as reading their news papers.

Answer 3

Read and practice talking correctly in the mirror everyday. Read out loud so you can hear how correct english sounds. Encourage your family members to help correct you when you talk. Play scrabble...

Answer 4

You don't say whether or not you can do this in an English-speaking country. That will make it much easier, of course. However, I will respond as though you will be learning English in a country where English is not the main language spoken. Whether or not you are taking formal classes, I agree with the first responder that CONVERSATION is the best path.

How can you do this? One thing you could try is to form a group that meets a couple times a week over coffee/tea and speaks English only for one hour. Take notes on whatever any of you had problems saying in English and then after that hour is over, try to reason out the problems (using your native language is fine after the hour of English only).

If you can form such a group, you might consider inviting an English-speaking tourist to join you now and then. The guest is probably eager to learn traditions of your land (I know I always feel this way when I travel) and would be relieved to be "required" to speak English only with you. That guest could also help you with the translation problems you are having that day.

What I am about to say is based on my experience as a university teacher in the field of English (but of literature, not the language itself). You may know this already: English is the largest language the world has ever known. This is because English welcomes foreign words (and often changes them), so the vocabulary just keeps growing--unlike French, which has the tradition of an Academy assigned the duty of deciding which words should and should not be permitted to enter the dictionaries.

Because it is a huge language, it is often judged as the most difficult to learn. I always thought Chinese would be hard to learn because it uses pitch, which European-based language-users don't even "hear" correctly (Swedish is the only one that uses a little pitch). But Chinese friends assure me they found it much more difficult to learn English than their American friends found it to learn Chinese.

A major reason English is so difficult is that because it absorbs many foreign words, it does not have "rules" that coordinate them into one English. Depending on the origin of a word, it may or may not (as just one example) take the final "s" for the plural. Here are a few exceptions: "deer" is also the plural of "deer." "Mice" is the plural of "mouse." "Oxen" is the plural of "ox." And is gets even more difficult with verbs.

The greatest obstacle in learning English is mastering idiomatic English--which means something like mastering the peculiar "beyond the rules" phrases in English. I typed in "idiomatic English" into the Advance Search of Goggle and got over 85,800 hits. Lots of these were for products to buy, but I recommend you do this by adding your native language in the search. For example, there was one link to "idiomatic English for speakers of Chinese." So perhaps you will find a site specific to your needs.

Reading is a good way to widen your knowledge of English. Novels made it easier for me to struggle with French and Spanish. But take care not to start with contemporary writers using too much modern slang. You might seek out writers for whom English was also a second language. Joseph Conrad (he wrote around 1900) writes in solid English, and it was his third language (Polish was his first, then French). He was a sea captain who picked up English at sea but eventually became a writer and one of the masters of the English language. Warning: you had better like reading stories set at sea, or you will be bored! But you would be reading him to improve your English, not to drift away in adventure.

Best wishes to you. If the experts are correct and English is the most difficult language to conquer, you are to be commended for trying.