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How i can improve my english
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How i can improve my english

How i can improve my english

(OP)
i need to improve my english its so bad  i need to do this free from net  or any other things
so  any 1 here help  me how i can do this??


wait ur reply

RE: How i can improve my english

Read english language books, magazines, and novels.  Watch english language television programs.

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RE: How i can improve my english

The best way is complete immersion, but not always available.  Watching television with subtitles helps alot.  English speaking board games where you can verbally respond.

One advice:  Don't write in L33k sp34k (leek speak).  This will bring very poor habits that may be hard 2 break.

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RE: How i can improve my english

This forum is a good start.

Find some native English speakers and talk to them.  Ask them to correct you.

Read.  Books, magazines, newspapers.

Focus on the structural differences between your native language and English.

Capitalize.  The first word in a sentence.  Proper nouns.  I.

Use full words, not numbers that sound like words, no phonetic combinations that sound the same.

RE: How i can improve my english

(OP)
kewl for all and thankx soo much for this good reply hope al of u MintJulep ...controlnovice ..MadMango  help me here to correct and improve the write

RE: How i can improve my english

Also, use the English spell check in MS Word, and ... practice, practice, practice.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

RE: How i can improve my english

(OP)
htankx so much ctopher

RE: How i can improve my english

Quote:

kewl for all and thankx soo much for this good reply hope al of u MintJulep ...controlnovice ..MadMango  help me here to correct and improve the write

This should be:

Cool.  Thank you all so much for your good replies.  I hope all of you - MintJulep, ControlNovice, and MadMango, will help me to correct and improve my writing.

Cool is colloquial, and has no place in formal writing.  It is acceptable in an informal setting such as this forum.

The comma before "and MadMango", or more speciffically before the last item in a list that is prefixed with "and" is a topic of debate.  It is generally suggested in American English style guides, and omitted in British guides.

RE: How i can improve my english

At this point, I doubt whether you want to refine your english or make it worse. Earlier posters are kind enough not to say it.

Anyhow, some tips from a non native speaker(mind you, it is a continuous process).

Read news papers and novels(contemporary)

Be careful about books like Word power made easy and 30 days for the most powerful vocabulary etc., not that they are bad but not much helpful for day to day usage.

British Council's business english courses are good and the course fee is nominal.

RE: How i can improve my english

I have some doubt whether anyone who writes "any 1" or "kewl for all and thankx soo" is trying to improve.

To improve your English, read, write and speak it with those who are proficient. You are perhaps picking up poor habits from those debauching the language. Some laxity is shown non-native speakers, but generally, sloppy language indicates a sloppy mind.

Quote (Francis Bacon):

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

RE: How i can improve my english

(OP)
Thanks agian ,i whant to have step of learning my emglish
i  think 1st i must copmlet agrammer course
is it right?   

RE: How i can improve my english

Exactly what part of the world do you come from?

I see you are 'Aeronautical', and that you have also asked questions about PATRAN with respect to aeronautical applications.

Bill

RE: How i can improve my english

shawki321,
You can add the Google toolbar to your Internet browser. Then, before Preview or Submit, do a spellcheck (looks kind of like ABC on the drop-down menu).

RE: How i can improve my english

shawki321,

I am not sure where you come from but I know you can speak English better than I can speak (insert your native language here).

I think you should concentrate on the basics first, then work on the grammar, a lot of native English speaking people have trouble with correct grammar.

Good luck

RE: How i can improve my english

Quote:

a lot of native English speaking people have trouble with correct grammar
A lot of native English speaking people have trouble speaking English, spelling English and writing English ... especially this side of the pond. poke

cheers

RE: How i can improve my english

Apologies if I'm barking up the wrong tree but do I detect a leg pull?

From my own experience of learning French at school, being able to read written and understand spoken language is typically the relatively easy part.  This seems to agree with what some other people I’ve spoken to say.  This is also relatively easy to practice as you can read books; listen to Radio/Film/TV etc.

Speaking is next, since typically the person you’re speaking to will try and meet you half way, lots of hand gestures etc.  This is probably where you really start to benefit from ‘total immersion’.

The hardest part, for me at least and from what I’ve seen with interns we have from Germany, is the writing.  Practice makes perfect, the interns we have like to have me read over their work and make comments/corrections.  As time goes on they get better but even at the end of 6 months it’s rare they can prepare a document of any significant length without it needing quite a lot of correction (although the same goes for many of the English Speakers around herewinky smile ).  So really you need someone who’s willing/able to check what you write.


RE: How i can improve my english

Kenat - exactly my thoughts. Taking the p*ss as we say.

Bill

RE: How i can improve my english

I agree with KENAT about learning to speak an other language. My native language is french. My first tool to learn english was video games. After watch TV programs in english. It's been seven years that I bought most of my fiction books in original language so a lot in english. I practice my writings on forums like this one. But I can't explain how english grammary works. Mostly the verb tense. I write intuitively, using a criteria of esthetic to correct myself : "Is it look good to my eyes or not? Habit I have in french to, but I can explain french grammary.

What is missing now, it is properly speaking. Never did I was in total immersion. I probably had hard time with the various "h" sound. Or to properly pronounce differently words like "ate", "hate", "eight" and "height".

I would like to know if that post of mine contain a lot of mistakes.

Thank you

Newly subscribed, Morquea

RE: How i can improve my english

As you complemented me by agreeing smile I probably would have put:

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I agree with KENAT about learning to speak another language, my native language is French.  My first tool to learn English was video games, then watching TV programs in English.  For the last seven years I’ve bought most of my fiction books in original language so a lot of them in English.  I practice my writing on forums like this one, but I can't explain how English grammar works, especially the verb tense.  I write intuitively, using an aesthetic criteria to correct myself, "Does it look good to my eyes or not?” a habit I have in French, but then I can explain French grammar.

What is missing now, is being able to properly speak it, I’ve never had the chance to be in total immersion. I’d probably have a hard time with the various "h" sound.  Or properly pronouncing similar sounding/spelt words like "ate", "hate", "eight" and "height".

I would like to know if this post of mine contains a lot of mistakes.

Thank you

Newly subscribed, Morquea

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That’s not to say it’s grammatically correct, I only got a C in English and only studied it till I was 16, I’m also dyslexic, but I hope it helps.

By the way a pretty good effort for someone who’s never been totally immersed!  Certainly better than the last time I tried writing French.  

J’ai parle un peu le Francais mai, je trouve tout les langes vivantes tres dificile (or something like that).

Kenat




RE: How i can improve my english

Thank you very much.

Your corrections makes my post more aesthetic than my first attempt.

Your effort are not bad either. Here is the proper form.
"Je parle un peu le français, mais je trouve que toutes les langues vivantes sont très dificile à apprendre"

RE: How i can improve my english

merci!

I should have got that "I speak" not "I have speak".

I haven't used my French for about 5 years and Haven't written it for about 13 (not that I was very good then) so I'm surprised you had any idea what I was on about.

Shawki, I just looked at some of your posts and am wondering if WGJ and I were perhaps wrong, if so once again appologies.

What if any formal education have you had in English?  The thing that is confusing me is the way you throw a lot of slang & numbers instead of letters etc.  To me this is more typical of a lazy teenager than someone with English as a second language!

Perhaps we can tailor advice based on your experience so far!

RE: How i can improve my english

(OP)
Good Work (Morquea ) and I hope to contact with u to learn French Too i love this language so much but I heard that its so difficult language  

RE: How i can improve my english

Mais non Monsieur Kenat, les langues vivantes sont plutot faciles comparees aux lanngues parlees.

Well, there is one thing you must have to learn a language.
You've got to LOVE the language.
I tried this method and it worked out for my vocabulary (it seems that vocabulary is the most impeding factor for most people).
I had read somewhere that the human mind could absorb up to eight new words per day. So, I grabbed a very large white sheet and taped it it on the wall.

Day 1: write 8 new words from dictionary and make eight sentences.
Day 2: Review 8 previous words and write 8 new words on the same white sheet and make 8 new sentences.
Day three: Review day 1 and 2 and add 8 new words with sentences.

Day 4, day 5 etc.. and before you know it, you vocabulary starts building and confidence with it.

Then again, I loved the language. and... shawki, one language at a time will you?

RE: How i can improve my english

morquee, ton anglais est super. This is a great place to use it.

RE: How i can improve my english

Easy as modern languages may or may not be in comparison to the spoken language, I still found/find them difficult.

No offense to anyone but I'd be lying if I said I loved French, not sure I even love English so maybe that is part of the problem.  

So why am posting in this forum you may ask...

RE: How i can improve my english

The best way to do it is, dont use you native langage too often.  Try to isolate your self from using your native language.  If you are married, use English with your wife.  

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RE: How i can improve my english

I crinch to say this, but watch the E! channel.  You'll learn quick.

Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
http://sw.fcsuper.com/index.php

RE: How i can improve my english

Heh COE, can you imagine making love to your wife in a foreign langauge?

RE: How i can improve my english

I have a lot of friends that speak spanish so I wanted to learn spanish to better communicate with them.  I can read and understand it perfectly but oddly enough I have trouble writing and speaking in spanish.  I know the words I want to say but have trouble putting them is sentence.

  
Try learning common phrases on www.freetranslation.com.  

RE: How i can improve my english

metgirl, I think this is common.  Certainly I have the same in French and I've known others that had the same in various languages.

RE: How i can improve my english

Hi SHAWKI123
My advise, marry an English girl.

RE: How i can improve my english

Get yourself a better cue and some quality chalk.

RE: How i can improve my english

SomptingGuy,

Very funny, but lost on a large section of the population of this site I feel

Kevin Hammond

Mechanical Design Engineer
Derbyshire, UK
 

RE: How i can improve my english

Most of us can speak a little American.  I never found out the origins of this usage myself.

RE: How i can improve my english

I am struggling to learn English as well.

The words I knew years ago looks so unfamiliar now.

The words I could write is totally out of my mind now.

Forever Young

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