Comments on: Mixing it up!

By: Negar, Iran

Negar, Iran — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:03:22 +0000

I totally agree with u.
very useful topic.
thanks

By: memesh

memesh — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:36:09 +0000

Hi guy,

as u say I’m agree with u we know grammar it’s hard to learn alone without any sentences not just sentences it must have a dialog that contain any kind of grammar and her we can learn grammar very easily

I’m the who have a problem 4 so long SO I’d better like to learn it by dialog not alone with stand alone sentence so I start to listen to podcast to improve my language becuz when u listen to a native speaker several times the word will come out of ur mouth easily

thanks ANDY 4 ur topic it’s really interesting

By: Jonny Algaranaz

Jonny Algaranaz — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:30:39 +0000

Hey guys,

I just want to thank you for posting something that every person who is learning English should know. When learning a new language, in this case English, we all have to learn it in the same we learnt and achieved our first language. And how was that? By listening to others who already spoke the language very well.

Listening and reading are the key to learning and achieving a new language. Why? In order for you to speak or say sth, for example a word or a sentence, you must have listened to it many times by someone else. You don’t even know how you did it. It just came out of your mouth because you listened to that phrase or sentence before. The same happens with writing.

I’m not saying that grammar is not important. It is, for example, when you want to know how a language works and all that stuff. However, if we just want to speak the language we just have to listen to others, and also listen to podcasts, radio, etc., read magazines, newspaper and on and on and on.

See you

Jonny
Santa Cruz, Bolivia

By: Hamid Reza

Hamid Reza — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:27:19 +0000

hi,
I am definitely agree with you guys. It is very tough to remember all grammatical rules when you wanna speak and most of the time you forget all the stuffs and this sounds boring particularly for the guy who is peaking to us. You know the problem is all new beginners or even those guys who have high level of english, first make a sentences in their own language and then do try to change it into English. Maybe you guys did similar work in the past..Anyway.. In my point of view what makes English easy to learn is to communicate with native speaker and use all the new sentence and slang you learnt. It will also improve our confidence..hey I am speaking I am speaking..I like your method of learning English and just keep going…
best wishes,

By: Lina

Lina — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:20:23 +0000

Hi guys! Thanks for this topic and all job which you do. It’s obvious you work hard for us because every day we get something new. Both of your sites are great and help a lot. Thinking about grammar I can say that it depends from person. It is important to know some grammar for me, because I learn faster and understand better if I know the rules. I assume each of us has own way to learn English but anyway we have to work really hard if we want to know this language well.

By: andrzej

andrzej — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:07:56 +0000

Hi there,
I think that more and more people are getting to the idea that speaking language is a skill and not knowledge. To drive a car you must simply take a seat behind the wheel and drive and not talk about the engine, trans and stuff. Saying that I should also state that listening along is not enough. If it was it would suffice to watch TV all the time or sit in the movie theater. To get the proper feeling of the language we must arise those feelings by using our imagination and pretending that we take part in a given linguistic situation. That way activates our right part of the brain responsible for long term memory (imaginative memory). In this way the language you are exposed to sticks with you forever.

By: ASAD,Pakistan

ASAD,Pakistan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:19:23 +0000

A little bit of grammar study is a necessary evil if you are just starting out in your target language. Once you get the basics down, you should move to focusing much of your time on input based learning activities for example, listening and reading. Why did I say necessary evil? Well, if you can not understand simple sentences and enough words in your target language, then the language is just a noise. Language is more about imitation than theoretical dissection.

By: hazem

hazem — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:46:05 +0000

Hey Andy and add.
Is this a typo or a grammatically mistake that you as a native have made?!!
“Share you success stories with us”

By: Mahrous Hegazy

Mahrous Hegazy — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:51:15 +0000

Thank you for your nice topic . As we have to listen to native speakers in learning and teaching English or any language .I am so sorry To say that we face a problem in Egypt as every thing in the language is measured or checked by writing skills in an exam . you can say that we neglect listening skills and the other skills
As a result we depend on teaching and learning English grammar using the old method
thank you Mahrous

By: sung

sung — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:16:17 +0000

Hi..guys
nice topic!!
that’s right, in speaking language,
we should get language subconsciously, naturally and intuitively.
just like we get habits which we get through long time practice.
through a lot of time exposure to certain words or phrase
we could get it intuitively.
the point is how much fun and interesting we have in certain language
to become natural !!
in that view,a lot of your mp3 is very helpful to those learning english…thanks!! keep going as it is!!! ////////////// sung