Quoting from [Lily0729]:

Hoy all,

Four suggestions FYI.

1.Just choose a good english book and insist on reading it out loudly .Iust spend one hour a day.

2.Like others said,try to create communicating atmosphere through make voice communication with the foreign friends in skype/MSN/yahoo.

3.Try your best to enjoy more great english films and TV programme.

4.The most important is give up your Shyness when speaking english

come on together and hope these personal experience will help you.

Regards,

Lily

Hi Lily,


Those are some great suggestions.  I have been teaching English for 4 years now (Dubai and now in Shanghai) and I have found that strategies such as yours consistently prove to be effective.


I would also suggest:


1) Listen everyday to English recordings that you find interesting.  British Council Online has got a number of great business English recordings worth checking out.

2) Making a daily list of new words that you have heard or learned.

3) Singing English songs (KTV is great for this!)  :D  You will be surprised how much singing can help your pronunciation.


Good luck!


Ryan

Quoting from [EnglishRyan]:

Quoting from [Lily0729]:

Hoy all,

Four suggestions FYI.

1.Just choose a good english book and insist on reading it out loudly .Iust spend one hour a day.

2.Like others said,try to create communicating atmosphere through make voice communication with the foreign friends in skype/MSN/yahoo.

3.Try your best to enjoy more great english films and TV programme.

4.The most important is give up your Shyness when speaking english

come on together and hope these personal experience will help you.

Regards,

Lily

Hi Lily,




Those are some great suggestions.  I have been teaching English for 4 years now (Dubai and now in Shanghai) and I have found that strategies such as yours consistently prove to be effective.




I would also suggest:




1) Listen everyday to English recordings that you find interesting.  British Council Online has got a number of great business English recordings worth checking out.



2) Making a daily list of new words that you have heard or learned.



3) Singing English songs (KTV is great for this!)  :D  You will be surprised how much singing can help your pronunciation.




Good luck!




Ryan

Hi Ryan,

Thank you for your kindly supplement about this issue.

Personally ,I think the No.2 you just summarized here is the indispensable one for english learners.

learning is like rowing upstream,not to advance is to dropback.It all depends on the daily accumulation and timely revision.

in the end~~~~if i have 1% inspiration, and i will pay the other 99% perspiration.

best regard!

Lily

Quoting from [Lily0729]:

Quoting from [EnglishRyan]:

Quoting from [Lily0729]:

Hoy all,

Four suggestions FYI.

1.Just choose a good english book and insist on reading it out loudly .Iust spend one hour a day.

2.Like others said,try to create communicating atmosphere through make voice communication with the foreign friends in skype/MSN/yahoo.

3.Try your best to enjoy more great english films and TV programme.

4.The most important is give up your Shyness when speaking english

come on together and hope these personal experience will help you.

Regards,

Lily

Hi Lily,





Those are some great suggestions.  I have been teaching English for 4 years now (Dubai and now in Shanghai) and I have found that strategies such as yours consistently prove to be effective.





I would also suggest:





1) Listen everyday to English recordings that you find interesting.  British Council Online has got a number of great business English recordings worth checking out.




2) Making a daily list of new words that you have heard or learned.




3) Singing English songs (KTV is great for this!)  :D  You will be surprised how much singing can help your pronunciation.





Good luck!





Ryan

Hi Ryan,

Thank you for your kindly supplement about this issue.

Personally ,I think the No.2 you just summarized here is the indispensable one for english learners.

learning is like rowing upstream,not to advance is to dropback.It all depends on the daily accumulation and timely revision.

in the end~~~~if i have 1% inspiration, and i will pay the other 99% perspiration.

best regard!

Lily

The more you practice,the better you will be.

thank you for all of your good learn skills.

Of course! hehehe~~~~~Bcoz Practice makes perfect!

Quoting from [EnglishRyan]:

Quoting from [Lily0729]:

Hoy all,

Four suggestions FYI.

1.Just choose a good english book and insist on reading it out loudly .Iust spend one hour a day.

2.Like others said,try to create communicating atmosphere through make voice communication with the foreign friends in skype/MSN/yahoo.

3.Try your best to enjoy more great english films and TV programme.

4.The most important is give up your Shyness when speaking english

come on together and hope these personal experience will help you.

Regards,

Lily

Hi Lily,




Those are some great suggestions.  I have been teaching English for 4 years now (Dubai and now in Shanghai) and I have found that strategies such as yours consistently prove to be effective.




I would also suggest:




1) Listen everyday to English recordings that you find interesting.  British Council Online has got a number of great business English recordings worth checking out.



2) Making a daily list of new words that you have heard or learned.



3) Singing English songs (KTV is great for this!)  :D  You will be surprised how much singing can help your pronunciation.




Good luck!




Ryan

Dear Ryan

Thank you for your valuable suggestions.

I am glad to see that singing English songs also will be helpful caz I love KTV. I would love to follow this suggestion.

I will look forward to more suggestions from you !

Hai Ying

Quoting from [Lily0729]:

 

Hello, Lily,

Glad to read your sharing.

In fact ,I have learned English more than 10 years (from primary school until now).Although my present job has something to do with English, but we seldom speak English. So I think speaking is more crucial. If we just listen or typing the English word without saying them , we would not remember those English worid easily.

So I think speaking could impress ourselver more. Then  try to speak with our friends or colleagues around us.

P.S:singing English song is a very good advice!

hi,thank you for ur supplement,yeah~~of course, we are reading ,writing,singing songs (in KTV)>>>all of this are in the section of preparing to speck out them exactly,accurately,fluently,purely....when we are talking with somebody use English~~~~are u agree? anyway, thank u very much.

warm regards,

lily

Thank you for sharing.

i can follow your tips and hope that i can get some improvement.

Hi all

My name is Herbert Lee. I'm the Director of Research at the English Research Institute. I've been a professional speaker and trainer (in English) for over 30 years. I've been a coach to CEO's, public relations executives, politicians, and high level executives. I've written four books on presentation skills.

I have been researching English fluency for over six years. I have seen so many students try to become better speakers, spend lost of money on books, courses and training and get very little result. Instead they wind up frustrated and upset and eventually give up.

I am almost finished my first draft of the "Fluent English Research Report." If you want a copy send me an email at englishresearchinstitute@gmail with the subject line "Free Report AB." I think it may put you on the right track.

Oh, I'm very busy doing research so don't have time to answer your personal questions. So please no emails for "chatting." My research will help lots of people improve their fluency so I can't spend a lot of time with chatting. Sorry about that.

Herbert Lee
Director of Research
English Research Institute

hi,nice to meet you here.

good suggestions.i 'll try ,since my english is rather poor.

thanks very much!

Good luck!