Do you want to improve your English?

English as a Second Language What do you want to talk about?
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Hi Jan,

Yes, I definitely agree with you: the earlier you start studying a language, the better. Although it’s never too late to start, of course.

All the best to you.

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Hi,Torsten,Englishuser,Conchita,Jan :slight_smile:
I read your letters about this topic …
Firstable I think depends on us our progress in English, is not that we want to live in the United States, or eat curry, its for example that we can shortened frontiers,customs,I feel great when I assist in conferences with International speakers and I realized that I understand most of the lecture without a translator then I think wuuuaaauuu my effort worths it,and not only for that,Im learning the double of a person who only knows one language,because I have two sources of information,in Spanish and in English,in my country its usual that you find English speakers around, so its also nice if you help them find a specific place or person in a country that doesn’t speak their language :wink: Torsten mentioned something about some institutes ok,maybe Berlitz or other institutes are not excellent but just to start are not bad,the rest will depend on each one, I learned in school and also in an institute,I worked also as an English teacher but now I’m not sure that I deserve this title,I have many sources in order to learn English,I mean,cd’s,magazines,books,internet,songs,and also an American brother and an American aunt,and I realized there’s a lot of work to do,and I don’t know where to start. :? … and as well as you, Im another English learner,a friend who’s also an English teacher told me that it’s impossible to learn all the English vocabulary and that’s right, but ,if we can learn more why can’t we do it?
I agree it would be better if we travel to an English speaking country but the true is that not everybody can pay it or have the facilities to travel, in my country its practically impossible to travel, embassies ask for different documents that are not only expensive but also difficult to get .
And well I agree with Torsten to start a topic and receive different feedback it would be a great opportunity to develope the language and exchange ideas.

Cris.

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Hi

Just two estimations, I know:

  1. English language nears the one million-word milestone. (“on 21 March this year, there were about 988,968 words in the language, “plus or minus a handful”. At the current rate of progress, the one-million mark will be reached this summer.”)

  2. To hear and clearly understand, an average English learner needs (in addition to continuous learning new words) to spend about 5.000 hours of pure time intently listening to native speakers of different styles. Audio, films, the BBC radio are OK. And 30-minutes-30-days is enough to start :slight_smile:

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Thanks for your estimations Tamara,5000 hours of listening,
wuuauuuu well it’s time to start.

Cris

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Hi Cristina

I myself started to understand - more or less clearly – real, not adapted, native speakers’ talks only after a year of living in the UK (though at secondary school I had English-as-a-second-language).

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Hi Cristina & Tamara,hi everbody,

I have started to understand native speakers ( educated English able to drop their home accent in favour of some more known South English or similar) after at least 5000 hours of listening.
A problem for me was not just time. A pleasure to hear and latercorrectly guess/match words is worth a work involved
,but a bad thing for me was if I made a break or would had started to mix languages, it was lost again and I needed to repeat to listen ,and to practice.
Important were some factors like: how fresh you are,what time of a day it is,(mornings were better ) ,and if I know a person, if that person was talking to a foreigner already,if you really know that part of language correctly (vocabulary) etc…
Well,to manage to understand a native docker in England is a completely different story.
Regards
Jan

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Its great to hear your different experiences on learning to understand English speakers,I imagine that being in that environment must be amazing,now reading your posts at least I have an idea on how different it is to write than to listen, thanks to both of you,I don’t know if some day I’ll have the opportunity to travel to an English speaking country and tell you my own experience but what I can share with you is my experiences as a mother of two beautiful kids,as a wife,as a daughter,and as an English teacher whenever you want , :wink:

Thanks again,Cris. :smiley:

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How much time per week do you spend watching TV?
Every day I watch tv between 10 and 15 minutes in the morning while get dressed my cloth.

How much time per week do you spend in your car?
I do not have a car but every weekend I travel two half hours

How much time do you spend reading a newspaper or magazine?
I read some papers in my job

How many emails do you write per day/week?
Since I enroled in a English-test.net, every day I write email but I check my email in the night only.

How much time per week do you spend on the Internet?
I spend on the internet six day per week between seven and eleven half hours in the night.

How much time do you spend eating breakfast?
I spend eating my breakfast between 12 and 20 minutes

How often do you go to the cinema?
I seldom go to cinema, I prefer to stay in my house and to watch TV
Regards,
Edgar

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hi
how i can improve my language

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Dear Najeebalhrsh,

Welcome to english-test.net and many thanks for your interesting question. You can improve your English by changing your habits.

For more information, please read How to learn English? and let me know what you think.

Regards,
Torsten
PS: Of course I’d also like to hear your opinion on this subject.[YSaerTTEW443543]

TOEIC listening, photographs: Gardening with the dog[YSaerTTEW443543]

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Hello Torsten,

I agree with you and little bid with others, sorry I am learning english but in my experience as old man ,also my son wan in english school and now in college of commerce

english allways getting full mark in english. should even all class not British student ( I mean mother tongue different ) , must have time to read english news paper,novel, music,movie and writing.

I know my english writing not too much but understanding good , always felling shay to write english for grammar but I can talking with peopel American or British good
Even I was working with them in hotel and other company even in my country or out of the country.

Best Regards,
Makram
Dear Torsten I am waiting your feedback thanks

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Hi coach,
how are you? can I aske for favor. do you have practise english? only what I read is test
I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Beast Regards,
Makram

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Hi Markram,

What exactly do you mean by ‘do you have practise English’? If you are referring to English language materials, our site is full of it. How much of the material have you explored so far? For example, have you read the following text? How to learn grammar?

Best regards,
Torsten[YSaerTTEW443543]

TOEIC short conversations: Two friends are making arrangements to meet for a softball match[YSaerTTEW443543]

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First, let me thank you for your efforts and concerns, Yes I want to improve my English , but to be honest I practise English using your links when I have free time at work as at my home I have alot of family commitments engaged my time.
Please forgive me if I did’t anwer the tests on time, I do care and appriciate all E-mails you send I read and save them till find a time to answer.

I follow your advise by seeing english movies and try to talk with my daughter english all the the day as we might practise English we both.

Thanks again,
Iman

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Hi teacher!
it seemes to me that you’ve copied my own experience.; I usualy listeen to english TV every day for a few minutes , but the probleme in this case is that you can only imrpove your listening ; I think the best way is to combine the practice and the istening;This is my chalange because in my office no one speak english, I can now understand more than I speak , for this reason I invite users to come in forum to change more , You notice that my english is not good because in my mind I automacly translate in french , please tell us more bout some connecting letters.
all regads

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native speaker ,are spleling so fast that it is so difficult to us but if non native speaks it’s is more easy to me to understand ,tell me how can I improve my listening

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Hi my teacher,when i sent my massage for you,you do not answer. and i see word record by red colour,where is your answer? please show me. FAYEZ

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Thank you for your encouragement. i am really very happy with your help. coming to your question; do you want to improve your English? yes I want to improve may English as soon as possible. since I am a student at a college,I want to learn the English well.
Since I decide to learn the English , I have been looking for someone who is helpful like you. Again and again thank you for your help

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dearsir
I spened watcing tv per day only one or two h /I spened my car morning two , evening two h I spened one or two h per day for reading a news peper /I spened 3 h per day for internet /
thank you
sheela

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I am a very positive surprise from the Online course and my pleasure to learn on your lessons.
Thanks a lot,
Sasko