Dear Mr Torsten
The first I am very appreciate for your English lessons. This is very effective for me.
you know until now the grammer is very simple for me and refresh my grammer but listening is good for me.
I answer the question : I live in iran
How much time per week do you spend watching TV? I watch English language movies 5 days a week almost 2 hours.
How much time per week do you spend in your car? this time is almost 6 hours a week because my office near my house.
How much time do you spend reading a newspaper or magazine? I read news in english 5 days a week and 20 minutes.
How many emails do you write per day/week? not more It depends on my conditions but about 2-3 a day and 5 day a week.
How much time per week do you spend on the Internet? I spent 5 day a week and about 6 hours a day. I PRACTICE ENGLISH , LISTEN TO BBC STORIES , READ TH ARTICLES AND SO ON.
How much time do you spend eating breakfast? I eat my breakfast 15 minutes a day except friday that last 30 minutes because is holiday .
How often do you go to the cinema? not more because I watch the best movies at home.
I am interested in to learn english quickly and am trying to read , watch , listen more but about your opinion that change your habit it is very good idea but I am not able to do it perfect .
please write me soon
rita salimi
Hi Torsten, I agree with most of ur points. English is my major in university and alos my second language. I am deeply convinced that surrounded by a native-English environment is quite vital. The biggest problem with my English is listening, which cause much difficulties for me to communicate with foreigners fluently. I have tried to listen to VOA&BBC every evening ( you know, I have to work on th day), but it does not work! I do not whatās wrong with my listening. Much confused. Can you help me?
Hi, everybody!
I canāt but join your conversation about how one can learn and improve his/her language skills. As for me each of you says right things. A person needs a teacher to explain grammar and other rules, but to speak any foreign language you need practise first of all. But to speak correctly you also need native-speaker surrounding because every language is developing with the time and new words appear along with new meanings to the existing ones.
But I should also admit that some genius people can learn foreign language by watching TV and reading books. I know one little girl who learned German just by watching programmes and movies in German. I learned Polish this way, but Iām not genius because this language is quite close to my native (Russian) and besides I canāt write in Polish, I donāt know the spelling and grammar rules.
As for English Iāve been studying it at school and institute, but I feel real lack of communication with native speakers. And thatās why Iām here with you
Dear Torsten,
I would like to answer the questions you initially posted.
I think that I spend about seven hours per week watching TV.
And I rarely drive my car, may be around three hours in seven days.
I donāt read magazines, neither newspapers, because I can reach all the information that I need from Internet. But I read books a lot.
Itās hard to say how many emails I write per day or week, probably because itās a different amount of hours every day and I can just assume it.
I spend approximately two hours per day on the Internet and its possibilities.
I spend fifteen minutes each day eating my breakfast with my family.
I donāt like to go to the cinema. The high sounding atmosphere bother me too much. I better stay home where I have installed a home theater system that allow me to watch movies in the same quality and controlling the sound volume.
Best regards,
Kristy
Hai Sir,
I am working with native speakers but I know my myself when i am talkingwith them i couldnot get vocabulry.also i amgetting poor.i am mother of nevin i amstudying with him.
i can follow your suggestion,
thanks
I am trying to learn English better. I have never visited english course because of the high fee. When I started to learn English, I was a poor student. We had a English class once a week with native speaker. Officially, we had this English class for two years. But it wasnāt enough to learn English. I always tried to learn it by myself.
From my experiency, we should learn english fast every day for few minutes, as you suggested reading newspapers, books and listening the audio and MP3.
You should find a time to learn English and you should be motivated to learn it.
Anyway, I am grateful that I found your web and do some exercises.
I spend two hours for watching TV.
I spend no more time to read the magazine or news papper. but spend 20minute for read news on website, but no much with news in english too.
I always send 4- 8 email per day but not long letter. I spend full day with Internet. cos my working is contact with other person by email by yahoo or skype. But I write never true inn the rule of verb in english. Iām not good st speaking english with other one. cos my listening is so poor.
I spend 15-30 or 1hours to read the book that I have to ready such as english verb book, social, novel story, history etc.
how should I can speak english?
please advise me, welcome for your advice.
Thank
Any
Hi Torsten, Itās Dessi here. I am a visually impaired person. I love self-studying English. I am able to write and read my English exercises on computer using special software such as screen reader. Please, help me to adapt your teaching methods and improve my spoken English. Give me explonation what I have to do. I desire to go on studying English and become effective English speaker.
All the best
Dessi
Hi Torsten,
I want to tell you something about me, Iām still studing in the university (( Trade & economic )) , and I warking 9 oāclock per a day then i donāt hove more time to waching TV or reading books what i like and many things also , but I like to learn English fastly after graduating from university , to arrive to a work what I need to improve my self , and you know that English language is important now adays in all of the world
thank you
and Iām sorry for my bad English
hi Torsten
i found it deffucult to develope my english by one way (learning )
but it looks nice and interresting when i watch tv(films , news .i mean whtching these in inglish channels ,it realy helps me
I spend watching TV more then 4 hours daily.
I am a house wife so most of time I spend in my house.
I spend 1hour reading news paper daily.
I write 3 e-mails per week.
I spend 3hours daily on the internet.
I spend 20 mints on break fast.
I never go to the cinema, i do not like movies.
