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Sureshbala said – Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:20:35 -0000 ( Flag Edit Link )
Dear rose khan,
There is English input available everywhere. Here are a few tips and suggestions for you to find input of English around you and improve your English speech: Rent or buy an English movie DVD
Rent or buy an English movie DVD. Put the English subtitles on. Follow the movie.
This has many advantages:
Please note: When you watch the movie be sure to keep your dictionary handy. Whenever you come across a new word, pause the movie and look it up in the dictionary. If you don’t do this, the whole experience will be quite pointless.
Read about any subject that interests you
No matter what subject interests you, there must be some magazine that talks about it. There are English magazines about Business, Brides, Guns and Ammunition, House Keeping, Stock Market, Sports, Computers, Electronics, Linux, Graphic Designing, Cooking etc.
Find the magazine that interests you and read it cover to cover. Be sure to look out for new words and new phrases and look them up in the dictionary as you go.
If you cannot find a magazine of your choice, look for information you are interested in on the Internet. There is information available on every topic under the sun on the Internet.
Read English fiction novels
Read English fiction of your choice. This is our India. Books are not costly here. You get cheap book in every nook and corner. If you want to pick up an interesting cheap English novel, go to the closest “raddi walla” (You know, the guy you sell your old daily news papers to…) They will generally also have old novels, book and magazines. These wont be good quality. They will all be second hand. But that’s okay, they will be nice and cheap. Pick up some thing that interests you. Take it home and read it. Be sure to look up all the new words you come across in the book.
Listen to the radio and TV
Our “All India Radio” has some good programs that are designed to teach English to the listener.Besides this, there are also many different radio stations available now-a-days in the big cities. Some of these radio stations are in English. Listen to them to get a feel of the language.
Besides the radio, you could also listen to the “News In English”. It’s available on a wide variety of channels. The news is a good place to get input of the English language because it is spoken in a very clear, easy to understand way.
Most effective tip:”Think in English”
One of the most common mistakes that English learners make is, they think in their mother tongue. When they want to say something in English, they think in their mother tongue, translate it to English and then say it in English. The result is a very flawed English sentence. Never do this!
If you want to speak in English fluently you will have to learn to “think” in English. When you are constructing sentences in your mind before saying them, think in English and form them in English in your mind.