How to learn new words in English

There you are! Seated at your desk with a paper in your hand which contains a list of words that you need to memorize for tomorrow’s English test, you need to get a good grade so you don't lose the money you spent paying the English school and of course you want to learn English, that was actually the reason for you to decide to go there, but how boring and stressful it is to memorize words, if there was only another way to learn and memorize vocabulary! You might think. 

Translating in Your Mind … Not a Good Idea

Let’s think a little bit about the way you speak your native language and imagine that you are walking down the street with a friend chatting and hanging out for a while. You’re paying close attention to what your friend says and you’re so interested in the conversation that you don’t even think about words, your brain just answers the questions your friend asks you and it lets the words come out naturally through your mouth, this is the process the brain does every day.

English for Beginners

Many language schools in the world practice useless methods on their students which consist on explaining the structure of the language, grammar rules, memorizing vocabulary and then after having taught all of this, schools force their students to speak. There are thousands of schools that use these methods, but the reality is that most of the students don't learn the new language; they never become fluent when speaking.

Three Tips for Speaking English naturally

Let’s imagine the next scene: You are in your native country, quietly eating at a restaurant and all of a sudden two Americans show up speaking English, laughing and talking about how great is your country and the good time they’ve had while staying there, one of them turns around, looks at you and asks you: “Excuse me, do you speak English?” you say: “Yeah man, what can I do for you?”...

The right way to learn English

Some important skills a person must have in life are reading and writing and now that you want to learn English, these two abilities are really important too, actually, you could not even be on this blog without knowing how to read English. As I have told you, what I write here is the most powerful method to learn English and that’s how I want you to learn, in a powerful way.

Idioms, A Cooler Way to Speak

It's really important for all of us, as learners, to be relaxed when speaking English. Being relaxed makes the words come naturally from the brain to the mouth and in this way we make ourselves more understandable when talking.

How to Be Fluent When Speaking English

The main goal of every English learner is to learn to speak English, but not only speak or know how to pronounce some words or to understand native speakers, what every learner want, is to express ourselves in English, speak fluently and sound natural. For most of the learners this could be a big challenge and this is because the old and traditional methods that schools generally use don't work.

How to Learn Slang in English

Sometimes the English learners get stuck when listening to native speakers, in my case, when I started to make progress in my English learning I realized that I could understand the language, it was easy to understand discourses or audio magazines, but every time I talked to a native speaker or when I watched movies in English I could not understand 100% of their English, I was trying to understand why.

Tips to Get an Accent in English

Accents in English can seem difficult for most people who don’t speak English, but of course, we all think sometimes that it would be pretty cool if we could speak English just like native people do. Well, there are good and bad news for you, and I’ll start by telling you the bright side of this article:

Enjoy Your English Learning

One of the most important things you need to have in mind when you want to really learn to speak English is to enjoy what you are learning, you must have fun when you learn how to speak English, this is one of the most powerful techniques you have to try, so you can really learn to speak fluently and spontaneously.

Advantages of Speaking English

Many things have been said about why people should learn to speak English, today I want to talk a little bit about the advantages you could get if you learn how to speak English fluently, and about this issue we could enumerate a long list of advantages. On this article I’ll focus only on four.

Listen to English and Succeed

The key that children use to learn a language is listening, they never worry about learning grammar rules, they don’t even know how to read, but when they start speaking, children end up speaking perfectly.

Do not Study Grammar Rules!

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!.

Learning Like a Child

After reading my first article you are probably thinking ... "Well, if I’m not supposed to study English, then, how in the world am I going to learn?”. The answer to this question is simple, you just need to learn exactly the way children do, and the proof of the effectiveness of this method, is easy to visualize when you think about the families that move to English speaking countries.

Reasons to Not Study English

For most people in the world, the idea of speaking and understanding a foreign language becomes a personal dream, the possibilities that languages offer and especially the English language make the motivation stronger to learn this language.