Learning English as Second Language - ESL: Listening & Speaking Practices
Listening and Speaking
Speaking Practice | Listening Practice
The natural process of speaking a language
You will probably speak the language if you listen to it every day. A baby who was born in Thailand surely speaks Thai language. Other was born in America, he will absolutely speak English.
The baby hear and listen to people talk everyday and he himself slowly catch up the words and their meanings, then he immitate to say those words again and again. Therefore, he will speak the language of the country he was born in.
Is this the same process of learning English to those ESL learners? I think it would be not much different. If you do the right way of learning a language, we can use it in communication when we need to have conversation in that language.
Listening Practice
How to improve your English Listening skills?
ESL learners usually do the wrong ways to learn English. So they don't really improve their English skills much after speding lots of time to learn.
In order to improve your listening skill, you need to have the right method to practice. It depends on the level of English you are, you need to do something accordingly.
- Elementary level
- If you just begin to learn English, you must spend more time to practice your listening skill. First thing first! The more you listen to English, the better you will be good at listening. Why do I say so? if people's mother tongue is not English, they have to train their ears to recognize the English sounds when they start learning English; that's why they have to spend much more time than people who have been learning English for a while. And this process will be at least the first 3 months.
- After you are familiar with English sounds, then you will have different ways to practice.
- Pre-intermediate and above
- ESL learners say that they don't understand what they listen to in English. Well, that's right. There may be many new words in the listening that give problems of understanding to learners. They must know all the vocabulary in the listening to understand the contents. Therefore, it is clear that you have to learn all the words in the listening before you start to practice your listening skill.
- In order to improve your listening skill, there are two important things to do. First thing is that you practice your listening often and by many different sources; such as listening to CD or tape in English, listening to English radio, watching English TV programs or English movies, etc. Second thing is that you need to use what you have learned or practice into your real life conversations.
Listening Exercises
Our listening Exercises divided into 3 levels including elementary, intermediate, and advance.
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Speaking Practice
Learning English as Second language - speaking skill is the most concerns of those who are learning English and who want to improve their communication ability. ESL learners usually translate their mother tongue into English when they have conversation. Read our post below to help find better ways to reach your point of improving speaking English.
How to improve speaking skill
- Improve speaking skill in a new language (by Michael Russell)
To most people, speaking is the most difficult part when learning a foreign language. Although everyone knows that the best way to speak a language fluently is to practice speaking as much as possible, not many people can do this. Language centers often create courses focusing on speaking skills, but besides the help of these courses, you should make some effort to improve your skills on your own. Read more about "how to improve speaking skill in a new language here"
- English Speaking Practices
Speaking English Online Course
Our speaking practices give most useful information about the kind of language that is appropriate in different situations. For example, how and when do you thank people? How do you invite your boss or professor to dinner? How do you invite your friend? What is the most polite way to interrupt? You already know the language and social rules for your own culture. How do you they differ in America? Go to Speaking Practice lessons now
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