Tips and ideas on the best ways to learn English faster,http:/www.englishclub.com,Tips for Beginners: You are like a new baby Babies learn their language slowly. First they learn to listen. Then they learn to talk. Finally, they can read and write.,Listen to English every day Listen to English radio. Watch English TV. Go to English movies. Use online lessons.,Make an English/ESL friend Make up conversations. Practice dialogues. Use beginner textbooks.,Read English stories Start with childrens storybooks. Try ESL readers. Read advertisements, signs and labels. Try EnglishClub.com for Young Learners.,Write down new words Start a vocabulary (new word) notebook. Write words in alphabetical order (A.B.C.). Make example sentences. Always use an English-English dictionary first.,Keep an English diary Start with one sentence. How do you feel? How is the weather? What did you do today? Write another sentence tomorrow.,Visit an English speaking country Learn English more quickly. Stay with an English family. Hear native speakers talk. Have a fun experience.,Where do I start?,Why do you want to learn English? Before you begin (or go back to) studying English, ask yourself one question. Why do I want to study English? Is it because you want to, or because someone else wants you to? Like every decision in life, studying English must be something you want to do.,Set goals if you know why you want to study, setting goals is easy. For example, maybe you want to travel to an English-speaking country. Great. Your goal might be to learn “Survival English“. Perhaps you already know many useful phrases, but you want to improve your listening skills and pronunciation. Whatever your goals are, write them down.,Make an agenda How long do you need to study to achieve your goals? (be realistic.) for example: If you work 60 hours per week, dont plan on spending another 40 hours a week studying English. Start off slow, but study regularly. Use material that is challenging, but not too difficult. Find out what works for you. After you have studied for a few weeks, adjust your study schedule accordingly. (Do you study best at night, or on the bus on your way to work? Do you like to study alone in a quiet place, or with friends and background music?),Make a commitment Learning English requires a lot of motivation. Nobody is going to take your attendance when you arent in class. If you are sure you are ready to begin studying, make a commitment.,Have fun learning English! The things we do best in life are the things we enjoy doing. If you arent having fun learning English, youre not studying the right way! You can be a serious student who has fun at the same time. Make up your own rewards program to give yourself incentives to stay on task.,Study a Balance of the 4 Key Skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing)Most students want to communicate better in English. (If this is one of your goals, it is important to study a balance of the four major skills.),Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are the main (macro) skills you need to communicate in any language. Being very good at only one of these skills will not help you to communicate. (For example you need to be able to read well before you can write well. You also need to be able to listen before you can speak. It helps to think of these communicative skills in two groups.),Its simple. Think of it this way. First you have input. Next you have output. First you listen to someone ask you a question. Second you speak and give them your answer. First you read a letter from someone. After that you write back to them. These are examples of communicating.,Input and output dont necessarily go in a specific order. Sometimes you speak first and then you listen. Sometimes you write about something you hear. During communication, the person you are communicating with uses one of the opposite skills. Therefore, in order to understand each other, everyone must be skillful in all four areas.,Some students want to know which skill is the most important. Since all of the skills rely on each other, they are all important. However, to communicate we do use some skills more often than others. (For example, about 40% of the time that we spend communicating we are simply listening. We speak for about35% of the time. Approximately 16% of communication comes from reading, and about 9% from writing.) These statistics are for an average communicator in English. Depending on someones job or situation, these numbers may vary.,Each of these main skills have micro skills within them. (For example, pronunciation is a type of speaking skill that must be practiced in order to improve communication. Spelling is a skill that makes understanding the written word easier. Grammar and vocabulary are other micro skills.)Micro doesnt mean they are unimportant. Macro skills such as listening are very general, while micro skills are more specific.,For the best results, create an agenda that combines all four areas of study. Allow one type of studying to lead into another. (For example, read a story and then talk about it with a friend. Watch a movie and then write about it.)This is what teachers in an English class would have you do, right? EnglishClub.com has lessons in all 4 key skills (and all minor skills), as well as many outside links to help you study further.,