How do I improve my English fast? How do I start learning English ?
What do I do if i can't afford an English teacher? I don't have access to native
speaking friends, and of course I can't travel to the uk at the moment
because i'm working or studying or i've got...
2.3 children there are many barriers to learning english
but in today's lesson i'm going to share five
hacks language learning hacks that i hope
and think will help you learn english faster
now what is a hack well a hack is a faster quicker way a shortcut to get
somewhere to achieve something that you want to
in this case we're going to look at five language learning hacks
that will definitely help improve your english faster
and hopefully give you a little bit more structure to the way that you learn
english if you are motivated if you truly want
to learn english then implementing these five hacks into the
way you study you learn and practice english daily
is really going to help you achieve what you want
in english so without further ado let's get started
looking at five hacks to help you study english faster
and it won't require a native speaker a teacher
or lots of money perfect
right hack number one do what you like to do i told you these
weren't going to be complicated if your teacher has advised you to read
the news of course read something but it doesn't have to be
politics if you're not interested in politics
if you simply enjoy a television series on netflix
watch it but watch it in english of course you can use subtitles
to help you at first but whatever you do watch something you enjoy make sure that
as you enjoy studying whether that is reading a book a
magazine celebrity gossip it could be anything as long as it's in
english and you enjoy the content you enjoy what
you are consuming what you're reading listening to watching then it's going to
help motivate you it doesn't have to be about reading
academic texts because to be honest that bores me
whatever the topic you enjoy go for it learn it enjoy it
and you will be more motivated hack number
two learn to notice be a great observer whether you
are listening to native speaking whether music is on in the background
pay attention and listen carefully to new vocabulary to the pronunciation of
words basically to anything to the structure of
sentences often when my husband is speaking in italian whether on the phone
or with friends i will always eavesdrop i'll listen in to see how much i can
actually understand i'm not being nosy i'm not
trying to find out any secrets he might have you
better not honey but i'm simply trying to make sense of
some of the new vocabulary he's using that i haven't heard before
or perhaps paying attention to the way some words
collocate together simply noticing and paying attention to language
however you find it surrounding you is going to help you
become more familiar with vocabulary grammatical structures
expressions idioms and of course pronunciation
so simply keep your eyes open and your ears
ready to listen to english right number three engage with english
what does this mean well it simply means that reading something is not enough
often you'll hear me say at the end of lessons now try and
practice these words put them into a context write a sentence copy it
below and i will correct it well what i'm asking you to do is engage with
the english i'm teaching you and there are a number of ways you can
do this when you read an article you want to be
able to practice using the words that you've
read or indeed perhaps even answer some comprehension questions
and of course if you can find games and activities to help you learn in english
all the better now how can you do this how can you engage with content have
activities to help you practice your comprehension skills
games to help you learn the vocabulary and even activities to help you improve
your writing skills well the sponsors of today's video
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anyway moving on to hack number four words over grammar there are some people
that worry so much about their grammar and the truth is
words are much more important if you've got a
broad range of passive vocabulary meaning words that
you understand whether you're listening or speaking
then this is going to help you learn english so much more than grammar
interestingly what you will often find is the brain tends to work out the
grammar for itself but even without realizing it you will
learn some of the grammatical structures just as you
go along but certainly focusing on learning vocabulary over the grammatical
structures and not worrying if you get things in slightly the wrong
order will help you learn english faster and simply be
understood it is not about speaking perfectly but
making yourself understood in english so that's hack
number four now hack number five is something that i
have always encouraged my students to do but
it is perhaps one of the hardest to become an
independent student to be an autonomous learner
now depending on what country you studied in you may not have
learned these skills particularly well knowing to take the initiative how to
engage with materials how to actually actively study and learn
without needing the support of a teacher or indeed anyone
is really going to help empower you motivate you
and learn english at your own pace in your own
time now going back to hack number three engaging with materials this works
so well with the sensations english platform it's really going to help
empower you study and learn english in a way that
you enjoy so developing your reading skills
your writing skills using games and activities with
sensations english is going to help teach you and develop
those language learning skills that you need
to be independent to be autonomous and not rely on a language teacher to give
you the information it is up to you it is up to you to go
out there and find english and learn it yourself so
none of those hacks were really too difficult but hopefully they will
help you achieve your language learning goal and again i do stress
click the link to sensations english it's free for two
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and learn more with them thank you so much for watching and of course
if you've got any language learning hacks that you want to share with us
comment below and let us know take care bye