By Vocabulary, Learning English

Re: Can You say?

I am not trying to crucify anyone, or negate the effectiveness of certain learning method. What I have observed is that many ESL learners opted to learn the patterns of speech rather trying to work on the understanding of fundaqmentals, but often misinterpreted the answers from the forum. This is...

Re: Please edit this for me!

Hi Ashish Tiwari,Judging by the sound of your last couple of postings, it’s increasingly convincing to me that you are not a beginning learner. In fact, you may be toying with us. I may even have to learn a thing or two from you! One thing striking me odd from these mind exchanges which...

Re: the best way to learn english?

Speak without Fear The biggest problem most people face in learning a new language is their own fear. They worry that they won’t say things correctly or that they will look stupid so they don’t talk at all. Don’t do this. The fastest way to learn anything is to do it – again and again until...

Re: How to learn English from music/songs?

Teroff wrote:Hello. I think this is bad idea to learn English from musics and other. First of all you must learn a gramma and after that you may learn English from Music/song, but not gramma only vocabulary bank. But this is my IMHOSometimes I thought of it as you did. But I take me back in...

Re: Expand your vocabulary and feed the world!

Great site! Got to 50, then hovered between 45 and 49 for a long time, which made me more determined than ever to reach 50 again. Many thousands of grains of rice donated! A little boring after a while, but the donation kept me going. I wish I had had this site when I was learning English long...

Pls remove posting linking to illegal site

Pls remove the 3rd posting in: Post:454822 which links to a site which advertises what are most probably PIRATED books, including by Raymond Murphy and others. ------------ Download learning English ebooks: Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing, Reading, Listening, Speaking IELTS, TOELF,...

BBC's learning English web.

Hello everyone.There are very much webs to learn English, but I think this web is so fantastic and great. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ You can learn everything from it: new words - vocabulary from news, grammar, listening, blog of students and teachers - where you can have...

Re: Play Judo

Hi Hoa, Thanks for the vote of confidence. Many people told me before that my way of learning English was quite unorthodox. I’ve relied a lot on my ears in conjunction with my eyes which I have mentioned several times on this forum. A lot of my understanding of English and how I used my...

Re: When I have trouble...

Hi Anon,what Jim said makes a lot of sense, and we discussed it a little in another thread, I think.The point was that teaching completely descriptively is impossible. The teacher would have to say: Mr X says this, Mr Y says that, and Mr Z says another thing. Now learn what they say and then...

Re: Poll: British English vs American English

Anonymous wrote:Well, I have encountered this problem recently. I had been learning english for few years, then I stopped attending courses or lessons, I have been learning at home and watching American TV series and movies.. so I have picked up a lot of vocabulary. So far, so good. Then I...