My Plan for Learning English

Many students and teachers always ask this question "What's the best way to learn English well?" Different people have different answers. Here is my plan for learning English. It is based on(根据) my own experience in learning languages. It helped me when I learned English. I hope that it can help you, too.

·Speak to Americans as much as possible.

·Write, write, write—letters, emails, notes, etc.

·Make phone calls to practise your English.

·Watch TV and movies.

·Listen to the radio.

·Read as much as possible.

It is important to believe that you will improve your English. Sometimes when you make plans, they seem very difficult. Progress comes little by little. Think about where you are today, and where you were last week or last month. Maybe it doesn't seem you have come very far. But if you stop and think about where you were six months ago, or even a year ago, then you will see your progress. That progress gives you hope. Keep on studying, and you will reach your goal sooner or later!

Do you remember the first word that you spoke? If you can, you are unusual. Suppose what your life was like during the first few months. I'm sure that it took your most time to eat, sleep and cry. As you grew older you slept less. Your parents would spend more time playing with you and talking to you. You watched and listened. You got to know that people make some sounds to go with some things.

Then you began to cry and to make sounds you heard. And little by little you could make right sound for one thing.

Then you got to understand the secret of the language. It is that a certain sound means a certain thing. One sound could be as good as another. But it is not so good as a word if everybody doesn't agree on its meaning. Only when a group of people make and use the same set of sounds of things they can understand each other. Their own language comes into being.

After you knew the "secret" you learned words. Some of the words meant things such as cars, books, birds and stores. Some of the words meant movements such as come, fly and swim. And other words express things such as "I would like to make friends with you." This is language that people can communicate by the way of language. That is to say, languages mean communication.

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