Methods of Learning English Outside Class

Methods of Learning English Outside Class

                We know some good ways to study English outside class. As English is a necessary tool to communicate to the entire world, more and more people start to learn English. There are some useful ways to study English in our social life. Firstly, we can meet more people who are from different countries in the United States. In general, we can talk with our neighbors because American people like to chat with strangers. Sometimes, our foreign friends invite us to their parties, and this will improve our English speaking skills because we can have more opportunities to talk with foreign people in English. Furthermore, people find a foreign girl friend or boy friend who does not speak the same first language as they do. When people fall in love, they will try much harder to understand the meaning from what their lover said. We need to improve English to talk to our lover with deep feelings. Last of all, social experience is very important after we graduate because it helps us to get jobs easily and learn English. Some students volunteer on campus. They do not only improve their English, but also get more credits. Moreover, we can do part time jobs for foreign companies that can help our English and financial situation. In conclusion, we should spend more time with foreign people in our social life. This is the best way to practice English in the United States.

First Experience Of Learning English

First Experience Of Learning English    

        My first experience learning English was wonderful enough. I felt easy and comfortable to learn English at that time. I wanted to learn English without any forcing from my family even though i was six at that moment. At the beginning, i learned English single words from my English home teacher employed by my mother. She taught me some easy single words, such as "cat", "dog" and "hair". Actually i felt bored at first, because i thought i did not need to learn English and I already knew how to say this in Chinese. But my teacher changed my feeling, she made a game with her vocabulary-card and played with me and i would get present if i won this game. I really felt excited to play that game even i forget what game it was now. Then, my teacher played a cartoon to me to watch. I remember the cartoon she played was "Tiny Toon Adventures". That was the first time i watched that cartoon. It made me felt very happy after the teacher said that was the present she gave me. Anyway, that cartoon made me wanted to learn more English because i could not understand the meaning from those roles before i learned English well. At last, one more thing which made me felt learning English was wonderful was that my mom and teacher said they would bought me a Gameboy if i passed all exams from my teacher in the following 2 months. When i was six, Tv always showed Gameboy's advertisements, and they affected me a lot. Finally, i had an opportunity to get one. To sum up, I felt very wonderful for my first experience of learning English even though i did not win the Gameboy.

Three questions

a) Why are you studying English? Explain with details.
There are two reasons that i am studying English. The First reason is that i have to improve my English for me to transfer to some other good universities in the future. This is very important for my later studying life in university. To make sure i can understand the knowledge which is taught in English. The Second reason is that English is a basic tool to communicate to people all over the world. This will help me to get more friends and know more culture of different countries when i get very good English skill.

b) Do you use English very much when you're not in this class? Explain what situations you need to use it in.
I do not use English very much when i am out of the class. The situation that I will use English is when i talk to my professors and my friends who are not from the same country. Moreover, when i go to some foreign restuarants, shops and markets, i will use English, too. In my daily life, i usually use my native language because most of my friends are chinese, and i talk to them in our language. These are the reasons that i do not use English in that much.

c) How do you feel when you use English? Are you sometimes nervous,comfotrable, or..?Explain.
Different situations i have different feelings. Sometimes nervous sometimes comfortable. When i am in my ESL class, i feel comfortable to use English, becasue teacher talks with us by some easy words. It is easier for us to understand the meaning of teacher said. However, when i talk with some native friends or people who are out of the school, it is hard for me to understand every words they said, sometimes i totally do not undertand what they said.This kind of situations make me nervous because i do not know what i can reply to them.