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What are the daily life conversation phases that can be used in our life? pls help
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There is more to it, but it can become very detailed.
For example, the reason so many students never develop an actual ability to speak with confidence or clarity, is that they spend all of their studies trying to "Be---My---Own---Teacher" by gathering the infinite array of disparate Idimatic Expressions which they think they can pull up from memory to give the conventional cultural response and "fit in" with everyone. It does not work very well.
Besides which, it is an errant social convention which merely drives people to "fit in" and "be accepted" as though all one needed to do to "live" were to recite what has been memorized.
It rather begs the question as to what the source is, or what social entity has told one
"What---One---Must---Say".
English, unfortunately for those who attempt to "Be---My---Own---Teacher" has its greatest strength in its LITERALISMS, not Idiomatic Expressions or some kind of "hipsterism" as is found in TV and Movies. That is why English is sufficient for the complex meanings involved in Engineering, Medicine, Mathematics and Sciences, Information Technology, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Philosophy, Theology etcetera, ad infinitum.
But nobody "runs" until they learn to "walk". Also, I know at least 2 students who actually have learned an adequate English by spending their teenage years studying songs on YouTube and other video Websites.
Of course, another difficulty precedes the student trying to be his or her own teacher, and this is the horrific way schools in foreign countries teach basic English to their students, by teaching the language as a confused array of Grammatical "Rules". That doesn't help most students either.
No, the key is elsewhere.
What are the daily life conversation phases that can be used in our life? pls help
Fragrance:
I understand what you are looking for, and there is a solution to the problem.
The difficulty is with your understanding as a student. The facts are as follows as to the difficulty.
(A) There are some "conversation phrases" or conventional wordings that can be of benefit to you.
(B) There are many idiomatic expressions that have little practical value for students insofar as the seek to master speaking and writing skills in English.
We can see this difficulty expressed in the many postings in both Answers and Notebook entries
in which Students of English are trying to play "Teacher-----To----Myself" by picking up phrases from strange places such as novels, and constantly asking forum members to explain;
"What does this mean?" or "What does that mean?"
The fault in doing this as a method of learning, is that it is not a structured knowledge that results.
All the student does is collect a confusing menagerie of complex understandings, structured as a collage of unrelated ideas in the memory.
Still, my best recommendation is to follow the specific instruction of a teacher, and read what the teacher recommends. (The vast majority of students operate, as is common in the modern convention,
as some sort of "Independent Agent" like James Bond, rushing about here and there to gather clues to the Arch Criminal who author's the English "plot".)
I find that many students benefit from practicing with specific songs that I choose, because songs have a "converstation" vocabulary, containing many of the kinds of simple phrasings that persons like yourself are seeking. [Songs also help the student relax, because I am not asking them to "originate" sentences in lessons.]
After the student becomes comfortable with studying the lyrics of the songs, and some of the Nursery Rhymes I use for lesson material, such as "The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed A Spider" I move on to short essays and so forth.
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