Friday, May 4, 2012

Why is it hard to speak English?



Acquiring English means we will consider English as our usual, day-to-day language. It won’t make us speak English in class only, but in every occasions possible.“

~Sean Hawring~

How do we do that? It’s much simpler than taking a course for 9 years yet people are still having hard time talking English.

1. First, listen to English-related anything. And I mean by anything is simply anything.
If some of you happens to like musics, listen to music with English lyrics a lot. Movies? Sure, go ahead and watch it (while reading the subtitle).
2. Second, try to mimic the speaker. Whatever he or she says, if it’s not too fast, try to repeat it.
3. Memorize what you have heard. This is extremely easy to do if you happen to have a favorite english-language song (but it ain’t no rap nor hip-hop, y’hear meh?).
Repeating a favorite song is not redundancy; because when a human likes something, they will likely to repeat the activity until they get bored automatically or get stopped by an external factor.
4. Use it in real-life situations! Okay, this might be a little bit tricky. But many songs and movies, for example, have popular quotations which can be used in a real life!
Another example, when you’re about to stumble over a tiny damn rock, make your way down to the earth surface cool! Like doing break dance for example! And after you stand back up, say “when I’m sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.”
Isn’t that very cool?!
5. Practice more and more! I didn’t say you have to repeat this process everytime, but this might be the simplest one if you want to acquire the ability to speak/listen to/understand English language.

Try it and good luck!




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