Study skills tips

Study skills tips

Read the study skills tips to practise and improve your reading skills. You'll learn some great study tips at the same time!

Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and do the exercises.

Preparation

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Many studies about language learning ask the question: What makes a good language learner? There are some things that good language learners do and some things they don't do. Here are some of the most useful suggestions from studies.

  • Don't be afraid of making mistakes. People often get things wrong. Good language learners notice their mistakes and learn from them.
  • Do group activities. People use language to communicate with other people. A good language learner always looks for opportunities to talk with other students.
  • Make notes during every class. Notes help you to remember new language. Look at your notes when you do your homework.
  • Use a dictionary. Good language learners often use dictionaries to check the meaning of words they don't know. They also make their own vocabulary lists.
  • Think in the language you're learning outside the classroom. When you're shopping or walking down the street, remember useful words and phrases. Sometimes, when you're at home, say new words to practise your pronunciation.
  • Do extra practice. Test and improve your language, reading and listening skills with self-study material. You can find a lot of this online.
  • Imagine yourself speaking in the language. Many good language learners can see and hear themselves speaking in the language. This helps their motivation.
  • Enjoy the process. Good language learners have fun with the language. Watch a TV series or film, listen to songs, play video games or read a book. It's never too late to become a good language learner.

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Submitted by nadyanightingale on Tue, 12/04/2022 - 12:04

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The tip about the pronunciation war very useful. I also listen a lot to radio in the foreign language. It helps me get news from different countries without an emotional connection, so that it's perfect and you just analyse the information and don't get emotional and don't get involved in it, you can make up your mind though.

Submitted by Polad Samadli on Mon, 04/04/2022 - 18:06

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You can use Discord servers to talk to people who are trying to learn the same language with you from all around the world.

Submitted by Emin on Sat, 18/12/2021 - 13:40

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ı usually choose a topic and speak with myself.for example ' I ask what is your favorite place and why? After that ı answer.ı listen to records and podcasts an hour a day.

Submitted by ANOUAR on Thu, 02/12/2021 - 13:58

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It's a good idea to translate music in english to your native language it helps very much because we listen to music over and over and that helps stick words in our heads.

Submitted by LamVanPhuong on Tue, 19/10/2021 - 12:51

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actually i do not have many tips for learning a new language, i only have a advice that do not give up if you have some difficulty when you learn a language get up and remember why you started.

Submitted by Momocompanyman on Sat, 16/10/2021 - 17:13

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Practice language skills everyday, like speaking with mirror.

Online exams are easy to do at home, you can do them whenever you want. It also makes good language skills develop as well.

Submitted by Suraj paliwal on Sat, 16/10/2021 - 15:35

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I'm doing a lot of practice in English.i watching movies, series and reading novels in English. That's very useful to learn new language.

Submitted by Suraj paliwal on Sun, 09/05/2021 - 10:29

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According to me best English learner always have passion for learn English. His every moment thinking about English. I think Speaking parrt is the most of than three parts. It's have mostly distress part. I try to tackle this problem.