Strategies to Learn English - Part 1

[vera brown]

In the present world scenario, in most of the places, people has been
using English (American, British, Australian, etc) for business
communication. There are a few pockets in this world, where English is
not spoken. But, majority of the people in the world speak, read, and
write English; they also use it to further their business needs,
skills, and requirements. People who are from non-native English
speaking countries need to learn this language separately as their
second language, whereas native speakers, whose first language is
English, not only speak it fluently since their childhood but also use
it in their day-to-day interactions.
Strategy 1: Memorizing English word with the related mother tongue
word through rote learning.
This is normally followed by most of the people while learning English
in the initial stages. People, who have good memory power can benefit
from this kind of rote learning. The ultimate achievement in learning
a language is to use it in regular day-to-day life. So, people who are
good at this strategy need to concentrate on how to use the words,
they learn from time-to-time, in their regular life.
Strategy 2: Understanding and memorizing English word and its meaning;
all in English only.
People using this strategy are one step ahead of those, who memorize
English word with the related mother tongue word through rote
learning. This strategy requires people to understand English better
and have at the same time good memory power and retention skills.
Strategy 3: Understanding, memorizing English word and forming your
own sentence using the same word.
This strategy is for those people who are able to understand English
and are also capable of constructing grammatically correct sentences
with a few words. Ideally speaking, this kind of learning increases
the retention capacity of the mind because, following this strategy,
the person is trying to link the word with a known context, that also,
in English.
Strategy 4: Memorizing English words just by following a blind logic
(for ex: preparing a list of words by following logic like starting
every word with the ending letter of its preceding word)
Normally, one can see this kind of strategy in English-learning books,
magazines, etc. This again comes under rote-learning strategy. One
way, it allows one to memorize a few words. While remembering the
words, one can also learn meanings of each word.
Strategy 5: Studying the root word and its related words and
memorizing them by using the same in sentences and also by reviewing
This is also an advanced strategy. There are few good English-learning
books out there, which had followed this kind of strategy. Readers of
these books need to understand the root word for a particular group of
words; by understanding the logic, not only one can easily memorize a
few groups of words within a short span of time but also learn their
related meanings.
Strategy 6: Gather beautiful phrases from your readings; review and
use them in your day-to-day life
This is a different kind of advanced strategy; people who can
understand, speak and write an average-level of English can follow
this one. This strategy involves reading a lot; whatever you read and
whenever you come across beautiful phrases (a sequence of two or more
words that does not contain subject, verb, etc, but acts as a unit in
a sentence) jot them down, try to understand the meaning, and use them
quite often in the relevant contexts, wherever possible.
Strategy 7: Gathering and jotting down new words wherever and whenever
you come across them.
This is a helpful strategy for everybody who wants to improve their
English vocabulary. This strategy involves reading a lot; where and
when a new word appears, jot it down, haunt its meaning in dictionary,
and use it in your day-to-day
interaction.
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