English Learning Secret 10

english-lang-secrets.jpg

Here it is guys - The tenth and final English Learning Secret of my series of the secrets of learning English as a second language.

English Is A Word Language Not A Grammar Language

Many people learning English today are learning English as if it was a grammar language. They spend hours and hours with their heads inside a book, trying to understand why some past tense words end in “ed” and others don’t.

What these students do not realise is that the only reason you are told by your teachers to spend hours and hours studying the grammar of English is because testing grammar is the only way they can test you. Testing whether you can actually speak English is almost impossible to be fair and accurate.

So here’s the thing. When you are studying English stop worrying about the actually grammar of English (after all, you will learn this much faster if you read English articles in newspapers or books) instead, learn English by looking for the patterns of which English words fit with each other. For example:

the words “go” and “home” are partner words.

“Go home”
“Going home”
“Went home” (past tense of “go” is “went”)

OK, so that’s an easy example. No look at these examples:

The word “part”

Part - time
Part - payment
part - company

“time”, “payment” and “company” are also partners of the word “part”

And here’s another, and this one is fantastic. The words “money” and “time” have the same partner words … it is as if they are sister words

Save time / money
Spend time / money
Waste time / money

So stop boring yourself stupid, and start looking for the patterns in English. It is much more fun, makes more sense and is guaranteed to help you through the difficulties of learning English.

Keep studying and if you have any questions about learning English, please feel free to ask me at any time.

6 Responses to “English Learning Secret 10”

  1. Mark KIm Says:

    very good information.. anyway.. do you still have apple stock?

    I think grobel ression just is begainng…. but it will over come…

    I had a commodity index fuud…

  2. Mark KIm Says:

    Apple stock declined .. resently because reccesion getting more wores then any another month…

  3. Carl Says:

    ㅋㅋㅋ I’m not worried Mark. I’m keeping my shares with Apple for the long term.

    Apple are not going to stop growing.

    You are right though - we are entering a recession this year, so things are going to be tough for a while :-)

  4. Jeel Says:

    Thank you
    great post !!
    Watching videos and listening is great to learn English too

  5. anglictina Says:

    Och, really interesting article

  6. Erik Says:

    mhhh its crazy what goes on with Apple stock. I´m expecting all time that they will rise but …
    Regards,
    Erik

    ———————————
    la vie est belle :-)

Leave a Reply