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Learning Article: The Four Elements Of English
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If you want to advance your English communication skills, you need to consider the four aspects that you need to work on at the same time. Follow these tips and watch your English progress.

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Hi Nancy, the advantage of reading is the input. You'll obtain the vocabulary, spelling, sentence structures and overall meaning of words in their context. Great! Just remember whenever you can to engage with English listeners :)

Read out loud! Don't worry about your pronunciation initially. This will train your mouth to pronounce words. Not technically correct, but it is efficient if you are looking for fluency. 

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All we need to know about learning any foreign language in one article. Loic, thank you for sharing this! 

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Hi Anna, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Your comment is very well structured. Here's something, on online teacher recently shared this: Focus more on communication: 

These activities will help you understand better:

Reading
Listening
Watching movies
Listening to music
Learning vocab with apps
Watching YouTube videos
Sitting in a class and listening to a teacher

These are all activities that you do alone, and they don't make you fluent. They help you understand a language. In fact, they can help you get REALLY good at understanding English. 

Why is that?

Because they don't do the following activities...

These activities will unlock your fluency:

Writing
Speaking
Chatting
Conversations
Phone calls
Making videos
Giving presentations
Teaching what you know

Do you see the difference?

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The Five Elements Of Communication Skills:
  1. Reading (input)
  2. Writing (output)
  3. Listening (input)
  4. Speaking (output)
  5. Smiling ( a lot! ))

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Thanks Bárbara! appreciate you taking time to read it. Please apply some of the techniques and see what works best for you. Remember you need min 21 days to establish new habits :)

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