How to learn english?

all in title of this subject.

What is the best way to have a good english? speaking and writing

book? school corse!? whatching films!?

or there are something else much better?

[MiMouNa]

In my opinion, the best way to learn english is the school courses which contain everything as the basic grammatical rules and others but it's not sufficient I think.

That's why, for those who want to improve their level in english, they ought to communicate with persons speaking english fluently because when we read books written in english we can understand but when we want to speak, we can found problems on expressing ourselves ..

[Bleach]

Yeah, Mimouna, you're totally right.
I had a couple of problems trying to speak english to some japaneese folks.

I guess the problem of our difficulty to communicate verbally in english is that we think in arabic or in french of what we wanna say and then we try to translate the ideas.

This takes time and we end up with making bunch of mistakes, but with a bit of practice, yeah it may make it happen.

[TheMajesty]

I created this english area to improve my english
Fact is that I understand english, spoken and written… but I still have problems to speak and write…

I know.. I've to practice...

[Bleach]

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I created this english area to improve my english

You abuser, you mean that you're using our excellent high illumiated english skills to improve yours......
Bad, bad administrator, that's bad.

Shame, shame.

I think that skype, MSN... (I mean chat) are usefull too

Think about making girlfriend from England! or from America

I think that practise is the most important...

Personnally I do much mistakes when I write but I like this language, it easy to speak with it, no "subjonctif" like french...

[shadow]

Envoyé par MiMouNa

In my opinion, the best way to learn english is the school courses which contain everything as the basic grammatical rules and others but it's not sufficient I think.

That's why, for those who want to improve their level in english, they ought to communicate with persons speaking english fluently because when we read books written in english we can understand but when we want to speak, we can found problems on expressing ourselves ..

well said Mimouna i just wanna add tha you have to read books! yeah these lovely books (i think i love books more than some people )to improve any language you learn, watching films too which are defenatly better in english (American and English ones i mean) and hangging out with some english or american people

[Bleach]

I think that is the best way to learn english is to watch some special movies, you know, like Nurses in need of jism or, or, or Gina Wild and the big chocolate bar....

I don't mind of learning english bu hanging out with some Australian babes....

[Anoushka]

A thread like this one cannot stay unnoticed for a linguist (that’s me hi hi hi).
Learning the basics (grammar, vocabulary...) in any foreign language does not necessarily imply acquiring a full mastery of the language especially when it comes to the oral skills (which come last in the learning process).
Aiming at acquiring a native-like fluency and accent can be really difficult if not impossible for those learning outside the target language community. The best way to reach that level, is immersion which is a new teaching trend emphasising the importance of the linguistic environment. I had been learning English for three years when I went to England for the first time. And I was almost unable to utter a meaningful sound for the first two or three weeks. It was so frustrating. The language was there, the skills were there, the rules, the vocabulary, the grammar… everything was well organised and well stored in my head, but… it just could not come out of it!! It took me a few weeks to be comfortable speaking English with its natives and almost a year to have a near-native fluency and accent and be able to understand their idioms. Practice is the key concept.
Of course, each person has his/her own pace and rhythm, some may be quicker than others.
Books, films, songs, newspapers, TV… can really improve one’s language skills. For communication, live interaction is also needed.
You may need to have the guts to start conversing in English (especially with natives) for the first times, but then everything comes naturally.

And bleach, I can understand your Japanese experience. That’s not English they speak for god’s sake!! And worse, you have to pronounce like them to make sure they get what you mean (and that is a funny experience!).

[Bleach]

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And bleach, I can understand your Japanese experience. That’s not English they speak for god’s sake!! And worse, you have to pronounce like them to make sure they get what you mean

God Bless ya!
God
bless
Ya....
I mean having some 1m60 barely human people, don't see any nazi staff of what I said, speaking as if they were a band of Tony Blairs eating pop corn and yelling, is a a bit difficult to understand and to make them understand what you're saying, is a really hard work.

I mean their voices are just like a constipated little baby's fart.

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(and that is a funny experience!).

For once, it could be. But trying to explain to them the history of the pharaohs, that's not very cool.

Kanichiwa Rules....

[Aychu]

I'd say that those who wanna improve their skills and who can't be bothered to read or speak, they can start by watching Movies in english subtitled, at first in French, for the vocab and to get used to the accent. Then, they can watch it in english and subtitled in english !

We can be lazy and still learn english ! Adopt the Aychu english Way !

Youhoouuuuuuuuu ...

PS: concerning the japs ... try speaking english to indians, to french for god's sake, to viets, to any asians actually .............
ARGHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
"Very good very good ......."

For those who think that school is enough, hate to breake it to u ...; u r 100% wrong !

i personnaly learnt it when i was like 7 yrs old ........
if anyone needs any help ... don't hesitate !!


Cheers people !
or like anoushka wouls say

"Cheers Mates" !

[sofien007]

As I think the perfect way to practice english is to read english books, news papers...and do not forget to pratice talked english because because that's the way you will learn english when having conversation with other. Besides, i do watch english and us channels

or you can buy an interactive CD-ROM which contain basic language rules

[sofien007]

Well, it depends on the quality of that CD and i wish there are interactive CD that you can talk with not only based on pre-stored words...

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As I think the perfect way to practice english is to read english books, news papers

Well, it depends on the quality of that book and news papers