Today I feel a little bit sad.
I've been studying English all my life from I was a child, maybe I was 7 or 8 years old, when I listened some English words by the first time. I suppose that as most people like me study English as second lenguage because the English up to now is one of the most used language in the world, but what I didn't know when I started to study it was that would be so complicated.
Thus far I haven't found the right way to learn English definitively. Six months ago I met a close friend who wanted to learn Spanish. We took up to speak each other and I realise that his level of Spanish it was much better than my English. I asked him, how you have learnt Spanish so good? and he responded me. I use an useful tool called Anki flashcard every day and today I have more than 2000 words in Spanish. I said, blimay!! if I did it the same I could learn like him, so I started to study new vocabulary with the same method.
Today I reach 1005 words in English, words from all kinds like "cabbage","fond", "perk", "chin", even idioms like "they are chalk and cheese", "blue collar worker" and so on. But in spite of having 1005 new words in my mind my level of English is not so good as I would like it. Someone feel the same?
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Today I feel a little bit sad.
I've been studying English all my life since I was a child. Maybe I was 7 or 8 years old when I listened to some English words for the first time. I suppose that as most people like me study English as second language because English up to now is one of the most used languages in the world, but what I didn't know when I started to study it was that it would be so complicated.
Thus far I haven't found the right way to learn English definitively. Six months ago I met a close friend who wanted to learn Spanish. We took up to speaking to each other and I realised that his level of Spanish it was much better than my English. I asked him, how you have learnt Spanish so well? And he responded me: I use an useful tool called Anki flashcards every day and today I have more than 2000 words in Spanish. I said, blimay!! if I did it the same I could learn like he does, so I started to study new vocabulary with the same method.
Today I have reached 1005 words in English, words of all kinds like "cabbage","fond", "perk", "chin", even idioms like "they are chalk and cheese", "blue collar worker" and so on. But in spite of having 1005 new words in my mind my level of English is not so good as I would like it. Anyone else feel the same?
También uso Anki. Es una sistema muy buena.
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Exactly Monet the main problem is the lack of total immersion in the language.
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Hi Alejandro! I know how you feel. It seems like despite learning so much about another language it will never be enough to be fluent. The best thing seems to be learning through total immersion, but for most of us this isn't feasible. Buena suerte!
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Hi Ruthi I only wanted express my feelings at this moment and practice writing at the same time. I suppose that tomorrow will back again to learn more vocabulary because to be honest I like to learn new vocabulary. I'm concern that it is neccesary practice English from several ways, listening, writing, speaking and as you say leaning a new language is not only learning new vocabulary, you have to know syntaxis, grammar ..... Thanks for your advice.
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okay you are righte but english is so interesting as you say you just have to try and try all over again
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