quick tips to learn English

Listen to English music. Even listening to music while doing something else can help a little for things like getting used to the natural rhythm and tone of English speech, although the more time and attention you give to a song the more you will learn from listening to it again in the future.

  Online chat. The closest thing to speaking for people who don't have the chance to speak English is online chat, as you have to think and respond quickly, and the language is short and informal just like speech.

 Record your own voice. For people who don't have much or any correction of pronunciation from a teacher, recording yourself and listening back makes it easier to hear whether you are really making the English sounds that you are trying to or not.

 Read a book with lots of dialogue. Opening up books before you buy one and flicking through them to find one with lots of direct dialogue in it has several advantages. If there is less text on the page due to all the speech marks etc, this can make it easier to read and easier to write translations on. Dialogue is also much easier to understand than descriptive parts of a book, and is much more like the language you will want to learn in order to be able to speak English.

Giving a Talk on Ladybugs...In English!

Giving a Talk on Ladybugs...In English! Diana Travecedo from Colombia Last week, I had to prepare an oral report about any insect or animal, so I decided to make my presentation about mariquitas, or ladybugs. I prepared it carefully and made a beautiful model of a lady bug to show the class

The ladybug is one of the most beautiful insects I have ever seen. I remember when I was a child, I used to look at them in my aunt's garden. Sometimes I tried to catch them because they were so cute. Before coming to the United States, I didn't know the insect's name in English. In Spanish, they are called mariquitas. 

Reading is the Best Way

Reading is the Best Way
Charlie from China
In my fourteen years of learning English, I have tried out many ways of learning English, but the most effective so far has proved to be learning through reading.
Reading, I mean effective reading, should involve on the reader's part a thorough concentration on the material he is reading, and an alertness and sensitivity to the wording as well as the general layout of the passages.