How to learn English Today I find a useful article on Tianya English forum about the ways of earning english, especially some ideas are fresh for me. Key points as follow: (1)It's no sense how many words you recognize, the most crucial is how many words you really maste , that is you can speak, wirte these words without thinking , not only recognize them on paper. (2)The write skill is important than listen, oral and read, it's more active,not passive (3) For the aim of simple communication, it's enough to bone up on english for 3 months. There's a interesting story about the forum article's author. Once time, the author met two foreign girls, both were beautiful , they asked the way to their hotel. Actually the hotel not far away, only 200 meters . Even the author knew the way, but the author could not explain it clearly. This experience really stricked the author, he decided to jump the English barrier. He made a series of hard work (3months) to learn english ,which included watching english TV programme, listening international radio channel (91.5Mhz), reading "21 century" carefully and thoroghly, writing two pages article by english, remembering vocabolary, etc. And he summarized some key points during the process, that is the points mentioned in the first paragraph. I think these suggestions are valuable, I'd like to practice based on these basic concepts.