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Who Posted 13 years ago
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English Speaking
Hi,
I'm glad that I found this wonderful forum, and I'm glad that I could register this user name. I like it so much, and I hope I could be a good student and make teachers think that I am not a waste of time!
Now, here we go, my first question!
Besides regular English class at the school and at the university, I haven't taken any other English course. Theoretically, I reviewed almost all important parts of English grammar, and some of vocabularies, but I haven't so much speaking. My English was escalated by listening to English music. Now, I am in the middle of a choice between learning grammar and vocabulary, kind of academically!, or try to practice expressions and phrases.
In the past, I myself tried to repeat movies' dialogues. And tried to improve my fluency. Nowadays, while I want to take TOEFL and GRE, I am hesitating about the way of my learning. I know those kind of tests need specific skills about the tests themselves! But I'm still practicing English.
Let me make my point clearer. I guess you have heard of some courses like "Effortless English", which tried to help via listening and repeating phrases. That is somehow one of my choices to improve my fluency. Then again, I need something efficient!. I think "Effortless English" is hopeless! But, repeating them would help.
I would appreciate it if you could give me your opinions.
Thanks
I'm glad that I found this wonderful forum, and I'm glad that I could register this user name. I like it so much, and I hope I could be a good student and make teachers think that I am not a waste of time!
Now, here we go, my first question!
Besides regular English class at the school and at the university, I haven't taken any other English course. Theoretically, I reviewed almost all important parts of English grammar, and some of vocabularies, but I haven't so much speaking. My English was escalated by listening to English music. Now, I am in the middle of a choice between learning grammar and vocabulary, kind of academically!, or try to practice expressions and phrases.
In the past, I myself tried to repeat movies' dialogues. And tried to improve my fluency. Nowadays, while I want to take TOEFL and GRE, I am hesitating about the way of my learning. I know those kind of tests need specific skills about the tests themselves! But I'm still practicing English.
Let me make my point clearer. I guess you have heard of some courses like "Effortless English", which tried to help via listening and repeating phrases. That is somehow one of my choices to improve my fluency. Then again, I need something efficient!. I think "Effortless English" is hopeless! But, repeating them would help.
I would appreciate it if you could give me your opinions.
Thanks
Top answer
If you want to practice expressions and phrases, you have to write them down on index cards and review them daily. Choose phrases that are very common — phrases you see in newspapers and magazines that seem useful to you. If you do a lot of reading, you will have a good source of phrases to learn.
- If you want to practice expressions and phrases, you have to write them down on index cards and review them daily.
- Choose phrases that are very common — phrases you see in newspapers and magazines that seem useful to you.
- If you do a lot of reading, you will have a good source of phrases to learn.
- Be sure to say them aloud again and again, and try to use them in complete sentences.
- If possible, have a native speaker check that you are using these expressions correctly and pronouncing them well.
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If you want to practice expressions and phrases, you have to write them down on index cards and review them daily. Choose phrases that are very common — phrases you see in newspapers and magazines that seem useful to you. If you do a lot of reading, you will have a good source of phrases to learn.
Be sure to say them aloud again and again, and try to use them in complete sentences. If
Be sure to say them aloud again and again, and try to use them in complete sentences. If
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