Friday, January 17, 2014

Learning a foreign language


What can you advise a student who is not very good at languages to do to achieve better results? 

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  1. Learning language can never be quick and easy, there is no single method that can make learning language fast and easy. In my view pupils who want to know language really good should know vocabulary. But there are a lot of people who know a lot of words and they can't express their thoughts. In my opinion these people should devote more time to any language actions. For example: reading books, watch films, listen to music, and at all speak, find someone from another country and chat, trying to express their minds.

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  2. I recommend three ways, to do achieve better results. the first way is "immersion". when people go in another country in the family that speaks only English languages. After that people learn language. Wants to or not.

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  3. The second ways is" association". People do not remember the word, but this word association.
    And the third way is "imitation".this is way use at school.Student repeats the teacher .
    I believe that these ways( one of them for sure) will help to achieve better result in language learning

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    1. I like your three ways. Have you invented them yourself?

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  4. In my opinion it is good to speak always. Your aim is not to learn language, but to communicate with people uses foreigh language. To do to another country isn't only one way to hear pure language. You can watch films, news without translation.

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  5. We can’t find the best way of learning foreign languages. People are different and their abilities differ. But in my view there are some ways to do it better. First of all reading books in foreign languages is one of my favorite ways. Maybe it will be difficult at the first time but some time later it’ll become much easier. Secondly watching films and other programs in foreign languages is very useful. At the beginning films can be with subtitles and later without them. The last way is to speak as much as possible. It can really help especially when you aren’t afraid to make mistakes

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    1. Do you read adapted books or in the original? What book are you reading now?

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    2. I prefer books in the original because translators quite often can't make story the same as writer did it. And now I'm reading Harry Potter in the origin.

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  6. In my view a person can improve his/her knowledge of foreign language in two steps. Firstly, if you want someone to understand you, you have to express your thought accurately. For this you should have a good vocabulary, which you can enrich by reading books in a foreign language. The second step is to learn to understand the "real" speech, I mean, to properly speak any language, you must hear it said by native speakers. Not everyone have the opportunity to stay abroad for a long time, so the best variant in this case is to watch movies in a foreign language, and if you have time to chat (using Skype, for example) with foreigners. But it is important to remember that you can`t achieve anything without labor.

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  7. Now I learn Polish. first you have to learn the language at a basic level and then improve this level. I think the best method of improving the knowledge of the language is to go to a country where the language is spoken (in my case, Poland) and live there for a couple of months. Also you can read books, watch movies, talk on the Internet on the foreign language. You can learn a foreign language quickly but you must study hard.

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    1. Will you need English when you live in Poland? How do you improve your English? Or you think the basic level is enough?

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