HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH

There are many ways to improve your level of English:

READ IT

Read as many English books, newspapers and magazines as you can find.
We also recommend the English version of the monthly magazine READERS DIGEST. It has short stories and articles. We are offering copies in our competition on the visitor page.

LISTEN TO IT

Try some of the radio stations we recommend on the Worldwide Radio schedules page BBC Overseas Service.They have a very good website designed to help English learners and teachers.

LOOK AT OTHER LEARNING MATERIAL ON THE WEB

VOLTERRE in France has a valuable list of sites for learners and teachers of English and French.Both these sites are highly recommended

TALK IT

Talk to friends who are also learning English. Make a rule that perhaps for an hour, or when you go out together, you will only speak English to each other! Find native English-speaking people who will give you conversation practice.

GO TO AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL

See our section of advice on how to choose a good language school.

VISIT AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRY

Maybe we will see you in Britain one day? Look at our Visiting Britain pages.

MORE ABOUT LEARNING ENGLISH

English is an easy language to start learning because:

• it has no genders. Apart from people, all objects are 'neuter', not 'masculine' or 'feminine'. So you say 'it' for such things, and do not need to learn any genders.
• it usually has easy verb endings. Apart from a few 'irregular' verbs, verb endings are easy, and hardly change.
• adjectives remain the same for all words - there are no different endings to learn.
• the singular and plural pronoun 'you' is the same. There is no need to decide whether to use a polite form, or an intimate form, when speaking to someone as in French or German. (English used to have the singular form 'thou', which was often used in the intimate way like 'tu' or 'du'. In fact, in dialects in parts of England, this is still sometimes used. And in the Republic of Ireland, they have a very sensible plural form of 'you', when speaking to several people: 'yous'.)  From...http://www.soon.org.uk/page24.htm