Learn English well in a simple way

My younger sister got 8.0 IELTS score while she was in 9th grade. I was impressed by her talent and asked her for some tips on learning English. The following article is her share.

Let's dig in 💪💪💪.

There are people in your life, especially in your own family that is really good at this one thing and then just have the audacity to rub it in your face and make you feel like a "fredo" ( as in “godfather”). See, everyone just acts like that person is about to bump mother Theresa herself out of the list of most loved people and then reinvent algebra the next day while you're common street trash. You are tired of other people giving you shit, so you try to be good at that one thing to compete with them and to hopefully slap them across their mouth with your success someday but no, you suck butt, period.

Why? Because they are natural and you're not, this doesn't mean that they are naturally good at that thing, but it's that it came naturally to that person without force.

1, Start with "not too much" pressure

Learning to be good at a language, in this case, English is the same. If you try to shove “Les Miserables” into your brain with intense force and in a very modest amount of time, you'd feel like you just finished Tour de France without hydration and that's not very healthy, but if you bother to take time and read that novel like a form of leisure activity, then you won't be surprised if you can recite Cosette's storyline backward. So basically the first thing is to let it come to you ~softly~ and approach it with the proper attitude.

2, Bring it into your daily life through EVERYTHING (Yep!! as much as you can)

Next, try to bring English into your life, not as in marrying a Caucasian Britain because that would be too much to handle, but just try to find a way to see or hear or use English on your daily basis, like reading books, use Twitter in English, watch movies, et cetera. Try installing Netflix, for example, lots of quality content guaranteed. Though it sounds like a terrific use of money, would you rather spend loads on classes that probably not gonna live up to your expectations?

Or if you're not cut out to be a binge-watcher, sadly, you can also buy magazines like Vogue or cosmopolitan or the New Yorker. And if you're that serious type of person that makes every conversation sound like Lorelai talking to Richard and Emily Gilmore, then try to find English just take your most recent lexical score to a bookstore and they will give you appropriate books in every genre. If not, try listening to music, I, myself learned how cremation works through rap. So basically there's something for everyone.

3, Lower your expectations

Most importantly don't put too much pressure on your poor exhausted back. I know you have to deal with annoying snake people lying, cheating, spitting, and disrespecting you every day so just don't make yourself any more agonized than you already are, and if you do, you have my old fat selves sympathy. You see, just lower your expectations a bit, it doesn't kill you, then being able to finish the first two sentences of Oliver Twist would be a kick-ass stepping stone.

Everyone is different and all of us have different ways to approach things, if two are the same then theoretically we're living in a simulation. So don't compare yourself to other people, you can hate them but don't apply their standards to yourself because that hurts really bad. Do you, and let's see how far you can go.

And if you cant nail English then just don't die of old age until English is dethroned by none other than Chinese to be the global language.

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