Try to
picture this scene in your mind: you are in a quiet room with a pencil in your
hand and a notebook. It’s the time for you to make some exercises of grammar
rules in English. you try to organize the right tenses of the
verbs in a way that it makes sense with the subjects ... the time goes by and you
feel like you understand what you are doing-“It’s enough! It’s time for me to
relax and watch a movie”- You think. You turn on the television and find a
good movie, which is being broadcast only in English, and then you start
watching it, but you realize that you cannot fully understand the movie, how
frustrating!.
What do you
think about the former story? Could it be that you needed to study harder? Or would
you think that you should go to an institute or a school to learn how to speak
and understand English? Well the answer for this questions is, no! You don’t
need to go to a school or study grammar rules to learn English, in fact, when
you focus on grammar, you destroy your English learning.
Most of the
people that study English for a long time with the old same methods of schools
just get the same results, they get stuck when they try to speak or express
themselves in English, their accents don’t sound natural and they are not able to understand native
English speaking people.
The reasons
for these results are really simple, first than all, we have to remember that
English is a language, it is not like mathematics, and you don’t need to use
boring formulas to learn how to speak English, what you really need is to use
your ears, the more you listen to English, the more you will understand and
make the language yours. Grammar will come automatically.
Think about
when you speak on your native language, you never think about verbs or tenses
or the subjects of the sentences that you are going to say, no! What your brain
does is just say things, the words just come out from the mouth and whatever
you say makes sense.
The brain
makes the language goes out of the mouth perfectly because you have heard your
native language so many times that it is natural for you now, so if you want to
speak English fluently and understand it 100% you must listen many, many times what you hear in English.
Perhaps
after reading this article you could think, “What if I don’t even understand a
single little word of a TV show or movie that I watch in English?” Then my
advice for you is repetition and patience, may be the first times you could get
a little help from the subtitles, but make sure the subtitles of the movie or
TV show you watch are in English, this is really helpful.
That is
the right way for succeeding on learning to speak English.
REMEMBER:
DO NOT STUDY GRAMMAR RULES, JUST FOCUS ON LISTENING.
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