Share your learning language tips.

Share your learning language tips.

Since we all want to learn English, why not share the tips? My tip is watching movie over and over untile you understand most of them.

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Don't be afraid to make mistakes

My tip is "Don't be afraid to make mistakes". Talk to people whenever you can without worry about your grammer errors.

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communication skill

>Angela
Your tips helps a lot. I always aware if I make mistake or not, both in grammar and usage of vocabularies, but I think those are something I should do and study home. And when I talk in English, I have to concentrate on what I want to tell and enjoy the conversation. I think it is "communication skill."

Good tip!

I think it's a great tip and

I think it's a great tip and a great way to learn a language; even if I must admit that it's not easy, to let your fear of making errors behind you and interact friendly with person who talk natively the language you want to learn !;)

Regards,

Marco

Pronunciation is important

My tip is paying attention to your pronunciation first then the grammar. If your pronunciation is wrong, native speaker doesn't understand you at all then your conversation can not go forward. But most of the native speaker can guess what do you mean if you have some grammar errors.

Pronounciation Vs Grammer

I think the reason for this is that from our media, we are used to different ways of hearing things said.

a perfect example is the movie character Yoda, who does not use proper grammar and yet every native speaker understands him and some mimic him.

also there just seems to be a looser grammatical structure in English, that is, there are lots of ways to say the same thing properly.

In contrast our ears are trained to listen to certain words, so if the word is mispronounced it is immediately noticeable. This can be seen with words like potato and tomato, they can both be pronounced po-tah-to/to-mah-to or po-tay-to/to-may-to but in some regions where only one form is used it is hard to recognise or jarring to hear. Even the slight pronunciation differences between Americanized English and British English can be rather off-putting at time.

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