Learning English

Fachmi Putri R

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Learning English

       My name is Fachmi and I’d like to tell you how I learned English on my own. Here, in

Indonesia we have English teaching since high school, where only basic grammar is taught.

Most of the time there is conversation practice.

       I was amazed at the language, often spoken in the great films, wonderfull songs ... then,

decided to start studying when i was 21 years old. There was I between teenagers, learning

the basic grammar, the same which I had learned when I was still in the high school a long

time ago..

    There wasn’t any chance to keep studying... But, I didn’t give up on the will of learning the

language...and started studying on my own, by the words of songs, exploring all the websites,

searching for grammar teaching. 

 

 

    At one point I knew some of the grammar ... maybe enough to have a conversation without

having to interrupt the chat to look for a translation. But... That wasn’t enough once I had to 

learn how to speak. I started joining chatrooms, very shy... but could hear and recognize some

words. Then...my friends online started phoning me. They encouraged me a lot to keep

practicing, but I was still shy to speak...afraid of being funny at speaking.

    The next step was repeating words of songs...singing with no fears. Learning how to move

the tongue to get the similar pronunciation. It helped me a lot, once after that time I could

understand some of the music words. I used to buy crosswords magazine...translating some

jokes to my friends, increasing my vocabulary day after day. It was funny to translete some

words, daring to make essays about my life. My vocabulary was getting bigger and I wasn’t

noticing that. I used to play games with words.. and kept trying.

   I used to test my English skills on websites, and those tests helped me a lot...Then. . World

English is the most complete site of teaching English. Today, I have no problem at speaking,

writting or reading English books. As in my own language I may look for a different word to

know its meaning in the dictionary.

  Despite I am always looking for grammar teaching, most people are amazed when I speak in

English. All we need to learn something is to lose the fears of trying. Everybody can learn. It

takes some time but it is worthy of the work. Good luck!