7 Keys to study English все тексты (слова) песен, переводы, видео, клипы

I am pretty sure that you have great ideas, thoughts and dreams about your near Future. In the future where you can speak English as fluently as a native speaker, at your new job, with new friends somewhere in the USA, Canada or Australia.

Take it easy. Admit one thing: you will never speak as a native speaker. Never! You will stay a foreigner and you will have an accent. You will make mistakes. Even if you have no grammar mistakes, you will definitely have situational and cultural ones. Have you ever heard foreigners who speak Russian? You are able to recognize easily if he or she is Russian or not. It’s the same with English.

So first of all, before you start to do anything you have to accept it and don’t come back to this topic anymore.

But don’t give up. Realize why you are going to study English. For what? And what’s the reason? What do you get after all? What is your Final Goal?

Listen to native speakers.

One of the best and really helpful ways to start speaking English is listening to the stories in English. You can start by reading some easy stuff like books for kids. You will find some simple phrases while reading, see basic grammar and understand the meaning. Download audio books and hold their text in front of your eyes. When you find an unknown word in the text, you should always try to guess the meaning. Try to think what this new word means. And in case if you really have no idea then go and find it in a dictionary. A paper dictionary - not an electronic one. The reason for that - you will remember this word better. Also other words will be remembered as well. Because while you are searching you’ll see other words, you could remember word position on page. It helps a lot.

Try and you will see, you will notice that as soon as you finish reading and listening your first, second or third story or book. You will see it’s a kind of a magic, that you will try to repeat some phrases, remember the words and you will find out it’s not so hard to find the meaning in the dictionary.

Also you will copy the pronunciation automatically. At the beginning pronunciation is not the main point to pay attention to. It will appear later. After you will listen to the natives a lot. It will come in a natural way. Also natives will correct you when you sound terribly. So don’t worry. Leave it for now.

Learn phrases - not words.

Hey, what's up? We hope you have a good day today.

When we meet our friends, that's what we say: "What's up?" Of course, this phrase means "Hello, how are you?"

"What's up" is a very common and very easy idiom. An idiom is a phrase that has a different meaning than the words in it. You cannot understand an idiom by knowing each word in it. You must understand it as a whole phrase.

Translate.

Translate everything you see. Both ways.

Translate labels from cosmetics, clothes, food, manuals... Everything! It is easy to have always next to you an electronic dictionary at your mobile or any other device but a paper dictionary is much better. You will see and read more words before you will find the one you are looking for.

Also try to find synonyms and antonyms to the English words. For example fast - slow, fast - rapid, quick etc. You will remember them like in Russian - automatically. They will pop up in your mind later. That’s for sure.