| Where Are You? | | | | you know. Play games online in English or find one or |
| If you're living in a foreign country where English might | | | | more of the numerous "activity books" available |
| not be spoken, undoubtedly you're finding it difficult to | | | | worldwide that allow you to practice |
| learn and practice on a regular basis. Here are four | | | | vocabulary-building, letter or word unscrambles and a |
| simple tips for helping you to learn English no matter | | | | myriad of other verbal-linguistic English language skills. |
| where you may live. | | | | Board games will be a great help too. "Sorry", |
| 1. Find a study Partner or Group | | | | "Scrabble" or "Monopoly" anyone? |
| "Birds of a feather flock together" as the saying goes. | | | | 4. Get Help Where ever You Can Find It |
| Try to find an English language study partner or | | | | Whatever you do, don't be bashful in looking or |
| practice group - even one online. Look and post in | | | | accepting help in acquiring English as a second or |
| forums, EFL teaching sites, chat rooms or just plain | | | | foreign language. It can be a long and lonely road to |
| advertise for an English language study partner or | | | | learning a foreign language like English, but it doesn't |
| group, preferably in your area. How about a family | | | | necessarily have to be. Use as many different |
| member, classmate or someone at a local store, shop, | | | | activities, exercises, techniques, strategies and |
| business or institute? Look in the classified of English | | | | methods as you possibly can. If you need more |
| language magazines too. | | | | suggestions, further help or just want to practice your |
| 2. Learn to Accept Taking Many Small Steps | | | | English language writing skills a bit, you can always |
| You've heard the expression, "Rome wasn't built in a | | | | drop me a quick e-mail and ask a question or two. I'm |
| day", haven't you? Well if you haven't, you have now. | | | | always happy to help. |
| Learn to appreciate making small advances in | | | | Don't Ever Give Up |
| developing your English language skills. Learning just a | | | | Finally, don't ever stop in your quest to acquire your |
| couple or even a few words a day will soon add up to | | | | new language. Nobody ever said that learning English, |
| a substantially increased vocabulary in almost no time | | | | or any other foreign language for that matter, was an |
| at all. Work on just one verb's forms this week. Next | | | | easy task. And if someone does tell you that - well, it |
| week move on to another, then another and another, | | | | simply isn't true. Just keep plugging away and making |
| etc. | | | | progressive steps - great and small. You'll continually |
| 3. Be Sure to Allow Yourself to Have Fun | | | | improve your English language communicative skills |
| You're absolutely allowed to enjoy learning English too, | | | | faster and sooner than you might think. |