Comments on: Are you prepared? Are you ready? Aren’t you nervous? http://compellingconversations.com/blog/2009/05/23/are-you-prepared-are-you-ready-arent-you-nervous/ Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics for ESL learners and teachers Tue, 01 May 2012 18:47:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: MBMMBI http://compellingconversations.com/blog/2009/05/23/are-you-prepared-are-you-ready-arent-you-nervous/comment-page-1/#comment-14349 MBMMBI Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:54:16 +0000 http://compellingconversations.com/blog/?p=235#comment-14349 Hi all, I would like to share info to to learn English, listen to English and read English.... do not translate. 1. Never Study A Single English Word That’s right, do not memorize words. Native speakers do not learn English by remembering single words. Native speakers learn phrases. 2. Never Study Grammar Right now. Stop. Put away your grammar books and textbooks. Grammar rules teach you to think about English, you want to speak automatically– without thinking! 3. Learn With Your Ears, Not Your Eyes Spend most of your study time listening- that is the key to great speaking. 4. Slow, Deep Learning Is Best Its not enough to know a definition. Its not enough to remember for a test. You must put the word deep into your brain. To speak English easily, you must repeat each lesson many times. 5. Use Point Of View Mini-Stories You must learn grammar by listening to real English. The best way is to listen to the same story… told in different times (points of view): Past, Perfect, Present, Future. How do you do this? Easy! Find a story or article in the present tense. Then ask your native speaker tutor to write it again in the Past, with Perfect tenses, and in the Future. Finally, ask him to read and record these stories for you. 6. Only Use Real English Lessons & Materials How do you learn Real English? It’s easy. Stop using textbooks. Instead, listen only to real English movies, TV shows, audio books, audio articles, stories, and talk radio shows. Use real English materials. 7. Listen and Answer Mini-Stories (not Listen and Repeat) Because the teacher constantly and quickly asks easy questions, you don’t have time to think about grammar. You just immediately shout a couple of words– which teaches you to respond faster, and faster, and faster. The 2 Big Secrets to Confident English Speaking <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=128845&c=ib&aff=91278&cl=5336" rel="nofollow">Click here to view more details</a> Hi all,

I would like to share info to to learn English, listen to English and read English…. do not translate.

1. Never Study A Single English Word
That’s right, do not memorize words. Native speakers do not learn English by remembering single words. Native speakers learn phrases.

2. Never Study Grammar
Right now. Stop. Put away your grammar books and textbooks. Grammar rules teach you to think about English, you want to speak automatically– without thinking!

3. Learn With Your Ears, Not Your Eyes
Spend most of your study time listening- that is the key to great speaking.

4. Slow, Deep Learning Is Best
Its not enough to know a definition. Its not enough to remember for a test. You must put the word deep into your brain. To speak English easily, you must repeat each lesson many times.

5. Use Point Of View Mini-Stories
You must learn grammar by listening to real English. The best way is to listen to the same story… told in different times (points of view): Past, Perfect, Present, Future. How do you do this? Easy! Find a story or article in the present tense. Then ask your native speaker tutor to write it again in the Past, with Perfect tenses, and in the Future. Finally, ask him to read and record these stories for you.

6. Only Use Real English Lessons & Materials
How do you learn Real English? It’s easy. Stop using textbooks. Instead, listen only to real English movies, TV shows, audio books, audio articles, stories, and talk radio shows. Use real English materials.

7. Listen and Answer Mini-Stories (not Listen and Repeat)
Because the teacher constantly and quickly asks easy questions, you don’t have time to think about grammar. You just immediately shout a couple of words– which teaches you to respond faster, and faster, and faster.

The 2 Big Secrets to Confident English Speaking
Click here to view more details

]]> By: Chimayo Press http://compellingconversations.com/blog/2009/05/23/are-you-prepared-are-you-ready-arent-you-nervous/comment-page-1/#comment-12153 Chimayo Press Sun, 31 May 2009 14:41:57 +0000 http://compellingconversations.com/blog/?p=235#comment-12153 Karenne - We absolutely agree. Choosing priorities - and honoring our choices -remains critical. Yet so often we get lost in the hectic routines that we forget that we chose these priorities and challenges. I look forward to slowing down a bit and working more online in the near future. Meanwhile, I'm writing some new course materials, interviewing EFL teachers in Vietnam, and still re-editing different versions of Compelling Conversations. Oh, and starting a new life in Ho Chi Minh City for the summer! Karenne – We absolutely agree. Choosing priorities – and honoring our choices -remains critical. Yet so often we get lost in the hectic routines that we forget that we chose these priorities and challenges.

I look forward to slowing down a bit and working more online in the near future. Meanwhile, I’m writing some new course materials, interviewing EFL teachers in Vietnam, and still re-editing different versions of Compelling Conversations. Oh, and starting a new life in Ho Chi Minh City for the summer!

]]> By: Karenne Sylvester http://compellingconversations.com/blog/2009/05/23/are-you-prepared-are-you-ready-arent-you-nervous/comment-page-1/#comment-11785 Karenne Sylvester Tue, 26 May 2009 10:56:50 +0000 http://compellingconversations.com/blog/?p=235#comment-11785 Hiya Eric, Glad to hear it! I've missed seeing you around a bit in the web2.0 but guessed you were massively busy! I often think that time is simply a question of priorities and habitually tell my students these LOL - everyone's got time, just that each person's got to decide how to spend it and not do everything ;-) Take care, Karenne Hiya Eric,

Glad to hear it! I’ve missed seeing you around a bit in the web2.0 but guessed you were massively busy!

I often think that time is simply a question of priorities and habitually tell my students these LOL – everyone’s got time, just that each person’s got to decide how to spend it and not do everything ;-)

Take care,
Karenne

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