Salah satu cara terbaik meningkatkan kemampuan berbahasa Inggris kita adalah dengan mendengarkan ke percakapan bahasa Inggris sesering mungkin. Setiap malam kita bisa menonton film barat di berbagai channel TV. Walaupun kita tidak bisa mengerti semuanya setidaknya itu akan sangat membantu kita untuk semakin terbiasa dengan komunikasi bahasa Inggris.
Saya pribadi sangat suka mendengarkan kotbah bahasa Inggris yang sudah saya copy ke HP saya dalam format MP3. Itu sangat membantu saya untuk semakin mudah menguasai perbincangan berbahasa Inggris.
Agar lebih menarik dan lebih ringan kita bisa mulai mendengarkan lagu-lagu bahasa Inggris favorit kita. Sebaiknya kita nyanyikan sambil mempelajari liriknya. Kita bisa copy liriknya dari www.lyrics.com. Kita akan semakin menikmati menyanyikan lagu jika menguasai arti liriknya. Maka sangat saya sarankan agar kita mulai mengartikan setiao kata sulit dengan mengeceknya di kamus. Atau ketika on line agar lebih cepat kita bisa translate di www.translate.google.com .
Supaya kita semakin mahir berbahasa Inggris kita bisa hapalkan dan praktekkan kalimat-kalimat romantis dari lirik lagu bahasa Inggris. Misalnya:
· Please forgive me I can’t stop loving you… (lyrics nya Brian Adam)
· You’re still the one I love.. (lyrics nya Shania Twain)
· Everything I do, I do it for you… (lyrics nya Brian Adam)
· The sweetest surprise… when I was kissing you… (lyrics nya MLTR)
· Beautiful girl… wherever you are…. (lyrics nya Christian Bautista)
Setelah kita menguasai kalimat-kalimat seperti diatas kita bisa latih secara monolog (ngomong sendiri di rumah yang penting jangan di pinggir jalanan.. he heh hehe). Kita bisa tambahkan kata-kata kita sendiri.
Misalnya:
Please forgive me I can’t stop loving you…. You know how much I love you… I always think about you…..
Please stay with me and share with me….. (so sweet…)
Kemudian akan sangat membantu jika kita mempunyai teman atau club yang dengan nya atau mereka kita bisa latih berbahasa Inggris. Mulai dari dialog sederhana semakin sering bercakap-cakap dengan mereka akan sangat membantu kita untuk semakin mahir berbahasa Inggris. Jangan pernah takut salah. Dan jangan malu berlatih. Sering sekali rasa takut dan malu lah yang memicu kegagalan seseorang dalam berbahasa Inggris.
Alright guys…
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So the government is now making a study shall Sciences and Maths be taught in both English and Malay. Why waste time? Having revoked the previous implementation of teaching Maths and Sciences in English, now making the subjects bi-lingual?
Here's the situation these days:
- Educational resources are mostly in English
- Story books from all genres are in English
- Many great songs are in English
- We study English from primary 1 to form 5 (at least 11 years of formal English education)
- Labels, advertisements, tags are all in English
After the few elements that are delivered in English as above, why are there still many people having poor fluency in the usage of the language? I would just maintain it with teaching entirely in English.
My parents came from the typical Malay kampung of the olden days; poor, less exposure to the English language. How would their situation justify for their great grasp on the language?
My parents came from the typical Malay kampung of the olden days; poor, less exposure to the English language. How would their situation justify for their great grasp on the language?
- They have passion for reading. My mum for example, is an avid reader of everything and she raised me to be a book-worm as well. From young I was inculcated to read in my free time and I thank her for that. This truly helped in enriching my vocabulary and construction of sentences.
- Vocalise the language. I've many friends who, like my parents, comes from the deepest and most remote of kampung yet they have the initiative to read English, listen to English and ultimately speak English. Kudos!
Some might say that I'm blessed to be raised in an English-speaking family which allows me to have a better, but not the best grasp on this universal language. But our parents are not as fortunate to have their parents speaking English.
So if people still give the excuses of not being able to speak the language fluently because of whatever reason in the world, seriously, stop bullshitting because the person themselves chose to bullshit themselves on not being able to speak English.
So if people still give the excuses of not being able to speak the language fluently because of whatever reason in the world, seriously, stop bullshitting because the person themselves chose to bullshit themselves on not being able to speak English.
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