I mention this because it’s different to most other Internet courses, and goes well with intermediate and upper-intermediate levels. For me, it’s the best course of its kind that I know of. If you compliment this with conversation, it can be very effective.
It’s not too grammatical and teaches by phrase repetition, which is very effective, especially when you keep repeating those that you have not fully learnt. Not as big or well-known as Rosetta Stone, English Class 101 has a lot of good reviews, which must count for something. A logical structure will help them learn a lot faster, and not waste time guessing words from pictures. Adults do not learn as children do because their minds work differently. Do not trust ‘new’ and ‘miraculous’ ways of learning. If you can compliment regular speaking time with Listening and Reading, concentrating on the grammar or structures you do not understand, you will learn.
Both are – in my humble opinion – mistakes. Perhaps the biggest online company, Rosetta Stone is a marketing exercise that claims to have discovered a new system, which is to enable people to learn as they did their native language. However, they are very effective if they are used together with speaking classes, and some courses have combined individual learning with online classes The underlying problem with these courses is the lack of speaking time. The ones I mention here have been recommended to me by many people, and I would be very grateful if any of you could give me your opinion on these, or other courses. There are many internet courses of varying quality, most of which are large companies moving a lot of money, and some with hard sell and complicated cancellation clauses. If you’re going to spend your time answering questions on a sheet, you could be at home learning English via the web (with me, for example 😉 ) Paying Internet Courses Ask the academy if you can go for a few classes at the beginning just to see if it’s what you’re looking for. If you are not speaking in class, you’re not going to learn- it’s as simple as that. Do your sums- There’s no point going to a class with 12 students because it’s cheaper! If a class lasts one hour and I speak 10-20 minutes, this leaves each student around 7-8 minutes to talk. Likewise, if you have no intention of taking an exam like TOEFL or First Certificate, I do not advise you to go to an exam-focused class. If you want to speak English, ask for conversation classes. Most exercises –this whether they are grammar, reading or listening – can be done on the internet in websites like this. These are the questions you need to ask the teacher (or yourself) Someone can have a range of teaching certificates but not have the personality to teach, or vice versa. In most fields, a certificate is a good guarantee- Here it does not really tell you anything. This is always a good option (I am a private English teacher- what do you expect me to say?), but standards my vary tremendously according to your teacher, the size and type of class. So how are you going to speak English?Let’s look at your possibilities: Private Classes or Language Schools Speaking is the best way to really learn grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and everything that comes with a language., and if you start speaking you really will notice progress. So how do you learn English? Grammar, Listening, Reading and Writing are all very important, but if you want to learn English you have to speak it- it’s as simple as that. Those that believe that Chinese will someday take over English as the world’s leading language should consider that in size, population and as a future economic power, China is closely followed by India – which is largely Anglophone. So, if some Spaniards meet a group of Chinese, how will they communicate? What’s the most likely?Įnglish has ‘only’ 350 million native speakers, but one out of every five people on earth speak English to some level of competence 56% of all Internet sites are written in English (German: 2nd/ 8%) 80% of all academic research is written in English, and I could go on and on….
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As a free website, the one thing I can’t offer is one-on-one conversation classes, but I’m going to talk about what you can do to to start speaking English.Ĭhinese Mandarin is the most widely spoken native language in the world (1.2 billion/16% of the world’s population), with Spanish second (400 million/over 5%).
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