What tips for learning English effectively?
Learn English One of the keys to fully enjoying your trip is being able to communicate with the people you will meet. Yes, but what if you don't speak the language of the country? You can at least try to make yourself understood in English, a language more or less understood throughout the world.
What ? You don’t speak English?
Don't panic, your illness is not incurable and with a little goodwill you will be able to chat in Shakespeare's language without even thinking about it. To help you get there, we asked Guillemette Laude from the Campus Langues language school to give us 5 tips for learning English.
Where do you start when you are a novice?
For someone who wants to learn English at a very beginner's level, the best option is to enroll in a language school to take group lessons. You can still buy a method or take courses on the Internet, but it's still a supplement.
Coming in several times a week to meet new people and socialize makes it a routine to set in, and you can quickly see progress. In a classroom, students and teachers interact with each other and pull each other up. When a student comes out of their very first English class, they can already use the first few words they have learned to communicate.
What are the good habits to adopt to learn a language?
To learn a language, you have to adopt the language attitude! It's simple: we just need to instill in our daily lives new habits in relation to the language to be learned. For example, we all have a song in English that we love and that we sing in the shower while jabbering on some Fr English yogurt of your own. Stop the massacre and finally go watch the lyrics on the internet to understand and learn them, it's much nicer! You will have enriched your vocabulary at the same time as your musical culture.
Ditto for TV series, it's time to go live! If you are worried that you will be totally lost, install the subtitles and very soon you will not be able to do without the real voices of your favorite actors.
Do not hesitate to read the newspapers, listen to the radio ... in short, to create a daily life in the target language with playful and varied media. Do things you love!
How quickly can a beginner understand and make himself understood?
It all depends on the pace of learning. If a person at a beginner's level takes intensive courses lasting about twenty hours, after two months he will be able to understand and be understood, provided the interlocutor is ready to make an effort. You will not have philosophical discussions, but you will be able to survive the day to day: take the bus, do your shopping and meet new people.
If you need a little more English, to study or work abroad for example, it will take a minimum of nine months before you can consider yourself able to survive in an English-speaking environment.
Are immersion and travel learning accelerators?
Immersion is the best way to progress in a language. When you have no choice and you have to make yourself understood, progress is much faster. For novices who find themselves immersed in a completely unknown universe, without having learned the language beforehand this can be discouraging during the first days, but we don't worry! Your brain will always find a way to learn, your ear will get used to the language, and self-study work will begin. It’s very brave!
For the less adventurous, a few language lessons before leaving to reassure themselves and have the basics so that they don't get lost when they arrive. You can even take language lessons on site, a good solution to combine school learning and cultural immersion!
What if there was just one piece of advice?
The best advice we can give you is to DARE! Yes, dare to communicate and get started. We often notice that French speakers have a funny relationship with their language and the “spoken word”. The slightest mistake in grammar or agreement is social suicide.
English speakers have a whole different approach, they are not afraid to chew and stretch their tongue all over the place. Grammar mistakes are not important to them, in fact they make them themselves! Language is above all a communication tool, it must be used as such. The point is to make yourself understood and no one is going to judge you if you forget a third person singular “-s”, even the Beatles do!
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