Today all most everyone
wants to speak English because English is a global language, if you see around
yourself you will find that English speaking is very important to get admission
in top colleges and universities as every educational institute teaches in
English cause all most every modern science, mathematics and other books are
written in English. And even when you go for a job interview your English
speaking ability is also tested with other qualities.
English is a language
which is quite easy to learn and implement if you work smart and practise all
most everyday what you learn each day. The best way to learn English is to try
to speak in English with everyone no matter you speak write or wrong, have
conversations with your elders and always participate in Group Discussions.
I can give you more
ways and contents to learn English easily but this post is about reasons why
your English isn’t improving.
A lot of people feel
that after learning from many years, they see no improvement and feel
disappointed. They are where they started. I am sure you may have experienced
it too. It’s quite disheartening because you attempted many years and no
result. Well there are a lot of reasons for this, but we discuss seven of them.
Reason 1: You don’t spend
enough time on it.
Now when you are
learning a new language you need to understand that it requires your time every
single day. Well I do understand that you are busy enough, you have busy
schedule, you have projects and all your hours are preoccupied, leaving you exhausted
and when you come home you just want to get into the bed. Only Saturday and
Sunday you have time for learning English. But if really want to learn English
you must cut some time from your daily routine for English. Trust me if you
start early, it will be very helpful in coming future.
So, remember take out
some time from your routine and give it to learning English and you will see
big improvement in your English speaking ability.
Reason 2: You are too passive
about learning English
You might be thinking
what passive means well it’s exactly the opposite of active. Alright, so you
cannot be lazy and hoping that you can learn English or any language probably
just by listening. Yes, that could help you a lot but speaking is form of
active learning. Okay, so you have to speak the language every single day. Now
you may come up to me actually a lot of people do and say that we don’t have
enough friends or probably family members don’t speak English. That’s not an
excuse. What you need to do is talk to yourself. No big deal, look into the
mirror talk to yourself about anything it could be an incident, experience of
the day and may it could be weekends plans. But you need to talk even with
yourself to learn it fluently. So you need to practise, practise and active not
passive.
Reason 3: You don’t review and
revise what you have learned
Well it is the one of
the most important things you need to do in the process of learning language.
Okay, say you come across a new word but don’t meaning of it, you just say I
will go home and find it out but you don’t, days past, weeks past. And the next
time you read that word you almost forgotten. That’s because you didn’t review.
So, when you learned something new, to register it in your mind make sure you
review because the sense of signal to the brain that you need to remember this
because this is really important. So, remember always review what you have
learned
Reason 4: You rely on your
native language too much
Now while you are
leaning English sometimes you do need translations to understand, say for
example a passage that you have just read in English. Now your native language
helps to understand what you read in English. But that doesn’t give you
practise to speak the language. And when you get to use to translating so the
next time you try to construct a sentence probably you just thinking in your
native language, yeah you try to translate only to speak a sentence. That is
completely wrong and that’s because there is a difference in the rule of both
the languages. So, never try to translate while you are speaking. Leave your
native language for a while and just concentrate on speaking English. So to
speak fluently and learn English do not rely on your native language too much.
Reason 5: You are always
focused on your mistakes
Now off course the
entire process of learning means making mistakes and then correcting them.
Right, but sometimes we focus so much on mistakes obviously you like to where
you are going wrong and where you make mistakes so you can rectify them but you
need to understand that don’t always focus on mistakes because that’s gonna
drain out your confidence and leave you feeling really very shy. So, what I am
trying so that when you try to speak in front of someone you will think ten
times that what if I am wrong, what if I make a mistake, what if people laugh.
And gone your entire confidence is down. And then you gonna fee really shy, you
gonna get nervous and you are back to stage one. So, don’t do that, don’t
always focus on mistakes go ahead and speak confidently.
Reason 6: You don’t put things
in context nor implement
Now say you have
learned a new word, you open up a dictionary you know the meaning, you
registered it in your mind and that’s it. You just know the meaning but you
really don’t know how to use that word in a sentence, so where’s the context.
So, just learning a new word and its meaning is not sufficient for learning
English. So, always understand how to put things in context, probably how they
fit in a sentence and practise it. So, don’t have just collections of words you
should also know how to implement them and put them in context to speak
fluently.
Reason 7: You’ve advanced a bit
in English
Probably when you
started learning English, you struggled enough in your initial periods and you
have learned the most common words and expressions that enabled you to speak
fluently. So, now you moved into a territory where there are less common words
and less common expressions. So, the learning process has now become slow and
steady. So, it’s just natural to feel that you are not learning. Well I have a
good news for you, yes you are learning and you are improving. So, continue
learning those new words and new expressions. And I am sure that your English
will improve.
So, these are the seven
common reasons probably you are not able to improve your English. Identify
which ones is yours and work on it. And I am sure your English will improve. I
wish you good luck. I will be back soon with a new topic.
And if you want to get
rigid of speaking anxiety click here.
Till then take care and
bye.
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