Jumat, 12 Desember 2008

DO YOU WANT TO LEARN ENGLISH EASILY?

Learning English is not difficult as we think, however we just need to focus and willing. H. Douglas Brown stated that there are five ways to learn English effectively, i. e:
Way of live
If we learn English in a native speakers place as mother tongue, so we can be much faster to master it because of surrounding by English, starting getting up to sleeping again or in other hand we need environment. In this case English is a part of life. Thus, what should be done to learn English easily in Indonesia? We must become it a part of life, meaning, we have to try to use it every where by reading, listening, and speaking. Of course we need some vocabularies in order to make sentences. It should be known as usual we see every day. Because we usually have much more already understood the vocabulary that’s rarely seen than usual we see. For example: if you ask question to students, what to say “Buaya” in English? Suddenly to answered “crocodile”. But, what to say “cecak” in English? Of course they answer nothing. It means. We need to focus how to know daily vocabularies. No way to stop trying and trying, trial and error.
Total commitment
If we are eager English to part of life, we have to own commitment in order to involve English in our life by physic, mentality, and emotion Physic, we can try to listen, read, write, and train English pronunciation more and more. Mentality or intellectual, we can try to think in English every use it. For example, to understand English is not word to word or try to recognize some synonym expressions: how’re you? How’s keeping on? How’s life? (Not one expression only). And, the most important is to involve our selves by emotional in English. We need to own high motivation to learn English, and we need to seek “positive thing” to be enjoyable or something that gives us motivation to master English. It can give beyond expectation energy to have spirit in learning English.
Trying
Learning English is like learning to go by bicycle or drive car. We cannot read and understand only, but we have to try to use it. We should realize that English is not our mother tongue. In the trial learning, getting mistaken is usual. However, how to learn of mistake to be good English
Beyond class activities
If we learn English formally (in the class or in the course), we just have limited time, i. e: four hours a week, six hours a week, or eight hours a week. So how to learn English effectively is to create occasion learning besides the school. Perhaps we can discuss to our friends, to visit website that offers freely, or to mail in English each other
Strategies
If we have commitment, braveness to try, to become English as part of our life, so it’s much better to have strategy to support learning process exactly. Any person likes to use “cue-card” is small card that writes of expression of English, and this card is used any time. Even though any person likes to practice in communication way. So we can ask a couple questions, listen, improve pronunciation, and enrich vocabulary.

1 komentar:

Unknown mengatakan...

Nice post however simple it is. Learning English would be so much fun when it turns to be a hobby. Treating English as a hobby will help ease individual learners, especially foreigners, to acquire the language more easily without feeling guilty and bothered. Thanks for sharing. Visit me at http://cheapessaywriter.wordpress.com