Friday, May 20, 2011

how can we learn english

English sometimes is difficult for us, because it is a completely different language. Also we have different weakness about it. For example my trouble is always with speaking, I am very shy and sometimes is very difficult to speak. Also sometimes I am afraid about it. I always thought is they will not understand me or things like that. This a big trouble but now I know that it is important not be afraid and speak whatever will happen. Sometimes we limit ourselves, but the key is be brave and practice and practice.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

How To Learn English

In order to learn English, I followed a series of steps. First of all, making American native speaker friends is one of the best ways to learn English. And we have to lose all fear of making a mistake. On the other hand, I consistently make opportunities to speak with American native speakers. If we follow those ways, we can learn English and we can improve our skills.

I really enjoy to learn English. One of my favorite forms is begin a conversation with someoneelse, especially using several topics. Even doing that is helpful to me for develop more confidence in my speaking skill. However I like to listen to music in English, I am planning to attend to performence or play at the theater. Basically I want to work more in speaking and writing skills.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Judge, Choose and Execute.

Our teacher give to us a lot of activities to improve our English, but personally, I can't stop reading. Something that usually occurs is that I always need to know what´s gonna happen the next chapter (Obviously if the book is interesting). In addition something exceptional of the books is that the knowledge is unlimited. You can find whatever you want, like math, history, languages, etc. Naturally if You read everyday, You'll be including new words in your vocabulary, that You must never use before (That's the good signal), also You improve your grammar accuracy. Finally, You've the liberty to choose regardless of the way that use the other people to learn, briefly judge, choose and execute.

Parrot's Technique

There are many ways to learn English one of the tricks that I often use is repeating the words or phrases that I hear from Native American speakers to get a better pronunciation and learn new words or phrases, to use this is very good because they can hear my pronunciation and correct if it is necessary and they also help me to understand the exact meaning of the words or phrases by doing those things plus using the things that I learn very often the words become more natural and that make me happy.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

My Favorite Way to Learn English

Even if I like to learn English, it's very difficult for me to read a book in English. Because, book has a lot of words that I don't know and I can't guess. So, I want to share my way to overcome this problem. That way is to read the same book in your native langage before you read in English. If you do this, you would be able to understand and guess the content easily in English. And, I like other ways which everyone shared. I want to try these way, too!!

My way to learn English

Learning English is difficlut for me. So I want to share way to learn English easily with classmates and will share my way, too. Today, my way to introduce is watching one FRIENDS episode everyday. First, I watch an episode without script. Next, I watch an episode again with script to compare what I listen. Maybe, this way let our improve listening and speaking.

My strategy to Learn English

There are many strategies to help learn English. One of these strategies is think in English no in your native laguage. After that I came to United States I started do it, and I realize that improved, because it is way of knowing some simple words that you don't know yet. There are many way to do this, when you are thinking with yourself, for example, about what you will eat in the lunch is one idea. Other way to do it is using dictionary English-English. This is my tip for this week...

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Learning a New Language

When I am learning a new language I sometimes feel overwhelmed with how much there is to learn to become better. So one thing I like to do is to find a patient friend who will practice with me. I don't want them to correct me with everything, only when I ask for some help. This way I can practice fluency and have a chance to talk with a native speaker. When I have specific questions I ask someone who can help me and then I practice those words a lot.

Introduction

So Academic Prep students, we are going to have a fun online experience with writing this semester. This will be our class blog where we can share with each other how we each learn English best. This will be our class metacognitive journal.

Once a week you will write a post on the blog and share with your classmates a skill, strategy or activity that you find helpful in language learning.

This will help you:

  • to become a better language learner
  • think about how you are learning
  • to find new ideas about how to learn English better
  • practice writing
I have written an example post that describes something that helps me when I am learning a new language.

Miss Clark