Hello English Students!
A Dreadful State
Did you know: most English teachers, English schools, ESL books and English classes use methods that are 50 years out of date!
Does this look familiar:
- repeating dialogs
- repeating after a teacher
- being corrected by a teacher
- learning grammar rules
- doing grammar exercises
Well, I have news for you: these methods don’t work! Have you studied English for a long time but listening and speaking English is still very difficult for you? This is the reason why!
And it gets worse: English classes in Asian public schools use methods that have been outdated since 1935! Students sit in English classes in Japan, Korea, Thailand and Vietnam for 5 to 10 YEARS and most students still can’t understand ONE SENTENCE of English!
And guess what? It gets even worse! MOST students of ANY language ANYWHERE in the world are the same! Language learning methods have not changed since the 1950′s and everyone thinks that learning a second language is very difficult, takes a long time, and is very boring and stressful.
But I am here to tell you, it doesn’t have to be this way! It’s 2011. Now we have new methods, and we have new technology too.
Learning English- or any language- does not have to be difficult, stressful or boring. You just have to use the right methods and the right tools.
You Don’t Need An English Teacher
Here’s what you think: “I’ll go to an English class, or meet an English teacher online or in a private lesson, and the teacher will talk to me and explain things to me and correct my speaking, and this way I will learn English.”
WRONG! Well, actually, it MIGHT work IF the teacher used the right methods. But there are too many problems with this idea:
- it’s hard to find a teacher
- you can find a teacher but they don’t use the right methods
- it’s too expensive; $20 to $50 per hour is typical
- you have to arrange time to meet and scheduling is difficult
- if it’s a class or a private lesson then you have to spend time traveling to the lesson and returning home
- you find a good class with a good teacher, but then the teacher cancels
- your classmates waste a lot of your time
This way of learning is just not efficient; it takes too much time and too much money.
You don’t need an English teacher. People who learn languages know that 80 or 90 percent of their learning time is spent alone, teaching themselves.
If you spent 1 hour every day using the right methods, you could learn English in a year. If you spent 2 hours every day using the right methods, you could learn English in 6 months. Easy! Not stressful, not difficult, not boring. If you spent 3 hours or more every day using the right methods, you could learn English to a high level, good enough to pass IELTS or TOEFL with a high score, in 6 months to 1 year.
What’s The Right Method?
You don’t have a lot of time. You have just a couple of hours every day to learn English. So you need to use every minute of that time in the best way you can.
I will explain this in the shortest, easiest way I can.
Here is what you need to have, to learn English quickly and easily. Are you ready? In three words:
INTERACTIVE, COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT.
Okay? That’s it. That is the Magic Key to learning English: interactive comprehensible input. Get as much of it as you can, every day.
Seems simple? Well, it is. But it is also radically different from what today’s “modern” classes, books, teachers and schools tell you to do.
In fact, it’s so different that learning how to think this new way is more difficult than actually learning the language! Learning a new language is easy. What is difficult is changing the way that you think about learning a new language.
People say, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” It means that habits are very difficult to change, especially mental habits.
But that is what you need to do. You need to throw away your old ideas about how to learn English. You need to learn new ideas and new methods. The old ones didn’t work, did they? You’ve “studied” English for years but your skill is still very poor. So the answer is simple: think about learning English in a different way; learn new methods of studying English and most importantly, use the new methods and technologies for at least an hour a day.
Learn more in my free email course: How To Learn English.
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Dec 19, 2011 @ 19:03:30
Hello teacher! I’m James Miller! So long to meet you! Can you tell me how to be your member? I have a lot of things to talk with you. I give you a good sound, half of our class pass the exam. But some student don’t do it by themselve.
Dec 21, 2011 @ 15:15:41
James Miller! Wuddup dude. They didn’t do it by themselves- you mean they cheated? Haha, well half is pretty good I think.
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Mar 07, 2012 @ 12:59:09
i want to learn english about 1 years
Mar 07, 2012 @ 13:48:23
Great! What’s your plan?