Today, more than two billion people use English as their first language, or as a language for business, study, or travel.
As an English teacher, many people ask me often how to learn and speak the English language fast and easily! It is interesting to know that some of them have studied English for several years and gone to different classes, but they still can"t speak English very well. So they are discouraged now and want to stop learning English.
Here are some points which can help you a lot if you would like to learn English in a different way:
1. English has more than 800000 words. But you do not need to learn them all! A lot of them are technical words. Maybe it is interesting for you to know that most Americans use fewer than 10000 words in writing and only about 5000 in speech. Therefore try to
learn necessary words and expressions which used more in communications.
2. Watch movies and listen to songs in English, but don"t try to understand every word. Just enjoy movies and songs!
3. Read books in English. Don"t look up every new word in your dictionary. Try to guess the meaning from the story.
4. Get a pen pal and write to each other in English.
…And finally remember that it takes a long time to learn another language as it does when you want to learn your mother tongue. Resource: sg