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What is the best way to learn English My goal is to be a translator to Japanese from English. I'm learning English at university, but my skill is not so good. Now, I'm in summer vacation, so I want to try some methods. First, I started memorizing a lot of vocabularies which I thought difficult. I have used a text which I had used when I was a high school student. Next, I made a habit to watch many online newspapers like The New York Times and The Japan News which written in English. What is the best way to learn English?

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What is the best way to learn English

My goal is to be a translator to Japanese from English. I'm learning English at university, but my skill is not so good.
Now, I'm in summer vacation, so I want to try some methods.
First, I started memorizing a lot of vocabularies which I thought difficult. I have used a text which I had used when I was a high school student.
Next, I made a habit to watch many online newspapers like The New York Times and The Japan News which written in English.
What is the best way to learn English?

 

What is the best way to learn English?

My goal is to become a translator from English to Japanese.  I study English at the University, but my skill level is not so good.  At this time, I am in summer vacation, so I wanted to try new approaches...

 First, I started memorizing a lot of new words, which I thought was a difficult process; then, I used a textbook, which I used when I was a high school student; next, I made a habit of reading online newspapers, like the New York Times, and the Japan News, which are written in English.

     [Mizuki san, it seems like your thought is not finished here..?  You made a list of things you tried, but you have to say whether they worked or not, so that the point of your message is complete] 

What is the best way to learn English?

 


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I'm the exact opposite! I remember watching a Japanese programme when I was 15, about a Japanese to English simultaneous interpreter and was so incredibly impressed. Hoping to work on my languages now in spite of how busy I am. It'd be great if you could help me with my Japanese too. If you have any opportunities, try to speak in English more often. It will help you develop confidence in speaking it and also because trying to catch words spoken at a normal pace might be one of the hardest parts of learning a new language. It's great that you've been reading those online newspapers too! Although sometimes reading news articles might be a little dry so I'd recommend simple stories for kids/teens to start with e.g. Roald Dahl's good and there are lovely illustrations to go with the book. The thing about Dahl is that he has the simpler yet fantastic children books like 'The BFG' or 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and he also has very interesting short stories collections that are meant for an older crowd e.g. 'Kiss Kiss'. All the best in your language pursuits!!
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I have always heard, submersion is the best way to pick up a language. Go places where other people are speaking English, makes friends with more English speaking people, it's all about surrounding yourself with English.
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Watashi mo :D I also want to become Japanese - Indonesian interpreter.....
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I'm studying right now a postgraduate degree in translation and simultaneous interpretation. and as for what I have noticed at least when it comes to be a translator, it does not really matter that you cannot speak fluent English, what matter the most is that you have knowledge of the syntactical structures, grammar structures, differences and similarities between the two languages, specialized jargon, idiomatic expressions, figures of speech, synonyms and antonyms, etc. you must specialize in one area, for example I work as a translator for a bureau of lawyers, I translate from French into Spanish, from English into Spanish. the payment from Japanese into Spanish is really good in my country! it is very hard to find people who speak Japanese and Chinese.

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