Commentary week Layfhakere: 07-13.07.2014

Summer is in full swing, and the distribution of books in khalyavnykh Layfhakere continues!

Once a week, one commentator, and one no less beautiful, book find each other. Not without the help of our glorious edition, of course. Today we announce the results of last week: from 7 to 13 July inclusive.

The winner is Dmitry Pavlov and his powerful, backed by experience a comment to the post

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To perfect your pronunciation helped me a trick: while I was traveling in public transport, etc., I have read all the words of Russian he saw (labels, signs, and so on) with the English pronunciation... I explained how to correctly pronounce English sounds (like Russian letters "t", "p" and the other with a gasp in the English style), and read them quietly, so as not to confuse the passers-by. This exciting game has led to the fact that I was fluent in Russian with an English accent.

As a result, it has become a habit - to use Russian or English pronunciation. Then, when I spoke in English, pronunciation is turned on automatically. There was no need to spend extra effort for it, was only to quickly remember the words.

This trick also helped me:

• get rid of the embarrassment that is (probably all), when you start to say as it is necessary;
• automatically correctly read the English text.

In parallel with this fun game, I tried to figure out how to put the accent in the English words and tone control in the proposal (asked of those who know; He noted how to pronounce it in the media film and working calls). Incorrectly memorized stress - it is difficult to subsequently recoverable habit.

English requires more muscular effort face than the Russian, we have more "ape" - the physical skill intensive facial expressions, too, need to learn. When I began to speak a lot in English, I was very tired face. :)

Now with the Internet you can just ask the sound word in the "on Google Translate." In general, the funds become more and learning - easier.

Regarding the study with or without carriers - it does not matter. In the early stages do not necessarily go anywhere. And really it helps only dive - mesyatsok to go and communicate only in English. This intensive. Just go on vacation - hardly helps.

On honing important to communicate with the media is not for learning words, but rather to develop the actual conversational techniques, idioms, common phrase ...

I also pointed out that each has its own ways of learning. Someone faster studies using textbooks, assignments, reading and writing texts, some by hearing... In the beginning you can choose any way. And most importantly, that it was pleasant and you did it. Then grinding and closing holes you do come to ensure that help for other options.

For example, I started teaching because I was not going to do it, but the wife of the house has maintained BBC in English. At first it was just noise. Then I looked, that the show understand the context of what we are, to isolate some of the words. And six months later, I realized that boomy background in the BBC began to distract me since I started to understand what it meant, and distracted by the stories.

Then I pulled the grammar of work had to write letters in English - so I remember how to write the word. Due to this, by the way, I know how to spell every English word that I know. Write very helpful. Also at work, I read a lot. Vocabulary was very busy, so I read first, skipping unfamiliar words, and then the context of the text understood what they meant, remembered them. Then I started to talk a lot on the job, learned to recognize the variation (as the Indians, the inhabitants of southern European, Chinese, Texans, New Yorkers, English).

Then I began to try to watch movies without translation. First, the hard way. Then I'm not always able to say with confidence after a week in which language I was watching a movie - in Russian or English.

Somewhere six months ago I started to learn German already just for yourself (always wanted to say it, but English has always been more in demand). Long sought audio courses (I wrote that it is easier to start with sound). In the end, I found the course learn German in English. In parallel, I went on the usual German courses. And I can say that to learn German in English is much easier than in Russian. That's the paradox. Apparently, it helps that both languages ​​are related (at least closer to each other than to the Russian).

And, of course, important in learning a language - it is a goal. The specific objective. You can not learn the language, "just so". It is necessary that it was needed "yesterday" to the need for it was daily (Arrange to work where it is needed as the air) - this will be a powerful stimulus and will achieve results much faster. Learn first what you really need right now. It makes no sense to sew up in grammar, if it is important to communicate by telephone. For oral conversation needs at least a few times and most of the frequency speed.

I hope my long "cart" someone will be interesting.

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like promised, The winner gets a book "Swim, ride, run"Brownlee brothers. Congratulations from the heart!

Lucky this week will receive a book, which can be used to bridge the gap between vision and reality - "Turning ideas"Scott Belsky.

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