English is extremely difficult for me.

I've studied it FOR ALMOST 10 years including THROUGHOUT BOTH middle school and high school.

In addition, I enrolled IN A private institute to learn English for years.

But I still HAVE difficultY WHEN using it.

Are there any good methods to master THE English language?

If you know something, let me know it.

Although I cannot change and rebuild my own linguistic abilities, I'd like to try something, effective ways.

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CAPITALS = CORRECTIONS
*My suggestions would be these, ask yourself:

“What is my ultimate goal? To read fluently in English or maintain a conversation in English for 20 mins? Once you know what you’re aiming for it will help you know how to improve. Why are you learning English? Because you want to travel or work overseas?

Try ‘semantic mapping’ – this is an exercise where you put a word/ situation/ place/ anything really, in the centre of a piece or paper and write everything you can about the subject. Adjectives, nouns, verbs, phrases etc.

EX: Hair Short/ Long  Hairdresser/ Barber How much for a haircut? This is a very simply one, but it will help you develop your vocabulary and show you how much you know.

If you want to be able to speak English proficiently, just speak to more native speakers. Practice makes perfect. I suck at speaking and listening, but I keep doing it because it will become better eventually.

Guess. Always ‘guess’ what the other person is saying if you’re not sure. Or ask, “can you say that again?”

Have fun with English – There’re so many movies, TV shows and Music out there! Sit down and watch an English movie with Korean subtitles or watch it with English subtitles. And if there is a useful phrase write it down and use it

Become friends with someone and use facebook or kakao talk and just write to each other. This way you’re imitating a real conversation without having to speak. This will help a lot; learning new vocabulary and learning REAL phrases.

http://www.educ.ualberta.ca/staff/olenka.Bilash/best%20of%20bilash/SILL%20survey.pdf This is what I used to discover new methods. It is a survey, but it may give you some ideas. SL = Second Language

I really hope this helps, if you have any questions feel free to contact me. I struggled with Korean for over a year, and then I started speaking and writing to Koreans and have improved alot! Give it a try.