Nama : Evi Astuti

kelas : 4 EA 25

LEARNING ENGLISH

How to learn English ?

               When I was ten years old, I began to learn my second language „Ÿ English. I have studied English for more than ten years and still found that I can not speak it correctly and fluently. This raises the question of how to learn English efficiently and in which way can English be used properly. My original thought was reciting the text that I learned in my English course and tried to mimic the way they used.

               However, it seems to be worthless, and I still can not make rapid progress. After I came to United States, I started to know the disadvantage of my original thoughts of learning English. Why should one learn English? When I was young, I thought it might be helpful in school or in getting a good job. At that time, my primary focus was on vocabulary and grammar. I had English class every day. Teachers had us read English dialogue to help us learn new phrases and analyze the grammar.

               My homework was simply reciting texts and sometime even though I can recite those texts fluently, I still can not use them freely in my routine daily activities. This is all I did to learn English. After several years I came to America, I found I was wrong on learning and using English. Learning the language not only includes studying vocabularies and grammar, but also includes communicating with others and practicing continually.An America environment is very important for those learning English. Each time when I have a conversation in English, it is helpful if a native speaker can help me with pronunciation and grammar. This gives me an excellent opportunity to learn about American customs and other aspects of American life. At home, I can turn on the TV to watch an American movie, or I can read todayfs newspaper to learn what has happened recently. For example, I always watch a new movie three times at home. The first time, I can understand what the movie mainly talks about without the captions.

            English language is the first most spoken language in this world. Many people interest to learn English language in order make them easily to communicate with foreigners and also make them easily to live in other country. One of obstacle for every people who live in other country either for business or study is language, if they don’t understand the language of the country where they live in it may causes a trouble for them and everything will become more difficult. Therefore, learning English is necessary for all people to make everything going easier. Actually, learning English is not difficult, but also not easy. All process depend on how serious the intention and how creative the learning method that used. Learning English is fun because it has the attractive strategies that make people enjoy and easy to understand such learning with music and movies also by playing kinds of game.

            Learning English with music and movies can make learning process more fun. It is not only make us smart, but also make us fun and enjoy. Listening English music can make our brain more active. Beside listening English word, our brain will try to save and think about the meaning of the song’s lyrics in the same time. Finally, we can remember all vocabularies easily. By watching English movies, we also get the same process. Not only by listening music, but also by seeing the picture. We also can know the right pronunciation of English word and know more about English conversation.  It can make learning English more attractive.  

            The other reason that make learning English fun is also because the learning process not only by studying, but also by playing. We can play to know and study English more. There are many kinds of game that available for every people who interested to learn English. For example such “Guessing Word Game” and “word puzzle Game”. Guessing Word game make us think fast and write fast. We have to fill the blank column with the right word in order to produce the new vocabulary. For puzzle game, we have to make our brain think carefully and creative to arrange many words become the right vocabulary. These games make our brain more active and skilled to produce many vocabularies. With these ways, learning English becomes easier than what we have thought.  

            In conclusion, learning English is fun and has many interesting way that make learning process easier. There are many advantages we can get from learning English, if we have known and understood all about English language we can easily communicate with foreigners and we can visit any country without any worry. We can also having fun and enjoy our hobbies while learning English. By learning English, we can go around the world and find new interesting experience. Many occupations need people who know English well, it can make us easy to find job and make our future brilliant. 

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