For a long time I have been dreaming of living somewhere abroad, of meeting new people, a new worldview and a different culture. I find it so unique and interesting! But no matter how much I study, something is lame. I thought I wasn't that bad until I started working after school, which involves communicating with a lot of foreigners, and I realized that I actually knew 1% of what I needed to speak it fluently without thinking for 10 minutes. to structure my sentence, and it just comes by itself correctly. I study English at school and in courses, but very little, 2 hours at school and 1 hour per course. At the moment I am generally in the 1st lesson in the textbook for A2. I studied English before, but then I was young and I didn't study, respectively, and I didn't understand anything, so from the 9th grade onwards I started learning it again from the 0th grade, and until the 12th grade I want to speak it perfectly. I am now 10th. I plan to go to the courses in the summer as well. The more I dig, the more I become convinced that this language is vast and I will never know it as a native speaker and I get very dumb. Is it possible to know a language perfectly without being in an English-speaking environment? Even if it's not perfect, I just don't want to make any absurd mistakes, because my grammar is a bit lame, I mix up the times a lot and I don't like grammar in general, it confuses me a lot. Besides, if I work 5-6 days a week all summer, will I lag behind with my tongue? Because at this moment I try to learn words every day, when I am somewhere all day I look at at least 5 words, and when I am at home I study 20 all day, but I have set 5 words as a limit for the absolute minimum. With just 5 words a day, will I be able to learn something like humans at all? It's a shame for me in the 21st century not to know at least 1 western language, but I also study German and there the situation is tragic and it becomes super dumb to me ..: d
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You write that you studied English before, but you study from textbook A2 and you are in the first lesson, so what do you expect? There is learning not only English, but every language, but you really have to dedicate time to learning. It doesn't matter how much time you spend, but what you do during the time. You are very tactless, what the hell is this - 5 words a day. Don't they make you take out the unfamiliar vocabulary on the courses? If so, I believe it can reach values of up to 40-50 words. Start watching videos in English (if you like), movies, reading articles, whatever. The important thing is to be surrounded by the language, to constantly hear and see it. Schedule your study time correctly, because sometimes it's better to read something in English and check out unfamiliar words than to just memorize random words you've written down in a dictionary. As for that, whether you speak as a 'native speaker' will not happen until you start living in an English-speaking country, so don't worry. Try to learn the basics, and street speech does not pay so much attention to grammar and it is permissible to make mistakes when using different tenses.
Hello! Every language can be learned. The problem is that English may just not work for you. You should enjoy learning it, not forcing it. In addition to the routine memorization of words, you can listen to music, read in English, and even if you want to talk to yourself at home. I also recommend watching YouTubers. Everything in English helps. But the most important thing is that it comes from inside you and you enjoy it. Kitty
I don't want to discourage you, but in 2 years it will be difficult to bring it from A2 to perfect mastery (say C1). I have been learning English since I was 4 years old, I am now 18 and I would say that I know it, if not perfectly, then at a very high level. In order for it to penetrate your subconscious and come of its own accord, as you put it, you have to watch movies, TV series and READ BOOKS in English. In this way, not only words and expressions are hammered into your head, but also grammatical constructions, stylistic features, etc. Learning words is not a bad habit, but just don't expect any results. Well, you will know a lot of words, but if you connect them in syntactic constructions at level A2, your speech will not be good. However, in order to speak a language like a native language, you really have to live in the country for a while. Find a good teacher and go if necessary twice a week. The language is not so difficult at all, but in order to learn it and it comes from within you, you have to be exposed to it constantly. Watch movies and read. For example, after so much time, I feel it quite naturally, as they say, and they push me. No kidding, I recently had an operation and when I woke up from the anesthesia I chatted in English for almost an hour (I don't remember much of that time: D). You need perseverance and proper methodology). I recently had an operation and when I woke up from the anesthesia I chatted in English for almost an hour (I don't remember most of that time: D). You need perseverance and proper methodology). I recently had an operation and when I woke up from the anesthesia I chatted in English for almost an hour (I don't remember most of that time: D). You need perseverance and proper methodology).
Language is learned with a little theory, a lot of practice and more theory. At least that's my experience. Learning 20 words a day is pointless if you can't handle them. Believe me, words come easily when you start speaking the language. You do not need more than 600-700 words to be able to form simple sentences. I advise you to watch foreign language movies, once with subtitles, once without. Then try to talk. Watch TV series and try idioms that you like. Read in English. Write down the new words and try to use them.
Hello! And I was like you with English until 8th grade, I didn't know anything, I could barely read a sentence. Until the 8th grade I could barely catch 3 for the term. I did not learn English from school, nor from courses, nor from textbooks. I learned it from movies and computer games with English audio. So I learned English because I was tired of reading the subtitles that are in Bulgarian. But I didn't learn it right away, I taught him to speak it well and write well for about two and a half years. Now I am in 11th grade and less than 6 there is no way to write to me in English. So watch more movies in English and read something that is in English every day and you will learn it. And I saw a piece of advice from me that you want to go abroad to get to know new cultures and meet new people, there's nothing wrong with that, but to know that there's nothing to see in the west, there is a complete gypsy, it is worse than Bulgaria, and if you go to Great Britain to know that the British hate people from Eastern Europe, it irritates them that in Eastern Europe we are more civilized than them. I went west and I will never go there again if they want to give me money. Better go to Russia, Japan, Iran, Poland, Hungary there is something to see, quite beautiful and beautiful countries are. Good luck with English.
Hello. I'm in 7th grade. I do well in other subjects, but I have fours in English. The grammar, I almost don't understand it, on the tests with an optional answer I round off what seems more melodious to me, finally I have to write an essay on a given topic up and down, I fix it and finally I make a 4. Almost all controls are designed this way. I don't want to hear about lessons either, because I'm super uncomfortable, I went to 2 private teachers, one was good, but I stopped teaching lessons because I was getting old, and the other was, to put it mildly, crazy. The words I correct more or less, sometimes we control the words I have 4 or 5. I have memorized the irregular verbs, but I can't use them. When I read something in English I understand what it is about, but I can't translate it exactly. So my question is, if I start learning song translations, I read books in English and I learn solid words, will I learn it? I want to apply for medicine, as I said above in other subjects, I have 6s and as far as I understand I will need them. However, there is not much information and books on medicine in Bulgarian and therefore I will have to read them in English. If I read a lot of books in English, will I learn grammar instinctively?
6, read and you will learn many things exactly instinctively!
Dear author, I started learning English in the 12th grade of external courses. There was no English in my school curriculum (I had chosen English myself because I hated English because I was a seventh grader because of naughty teachers). Climbing from beginner level to C1 took me 4 years, but not a permanent activity - on average one level per year. Grinding from C1 to C2 has already come with practice and time. The key is to keep practicing - reading, movies, songs, talking (if you have anyone) and little by little things will work out. And as for thinking before you say something - at least in my opinion this is a problem typical of the languages studied in school - a person finds it very difficult to relax and constantly feels like he is taking an exam and is afraid of making a mistake. For example, I think 100 hours before I say something in German or Russian (languages, scientists at school and seriously), while with English or my extremely limited Swedish I have never had such a problem - I blink and do not think so. If you really want to, you will learn it, and not only English. Success!
Training, reading and practice. Read books, study phrases, train them in front of the mirror, write texts. Find a teacher who will agree to look at your things and tell you what's wrong with them. I have read at least 100 books in English and I claim that it helped me a lot. Tip - don't read the new teen drama, but focus on world classics published in the last 150 years! Get yourself a nice notebook and write down difficult words and phrases. Books to prepare for SAT exams in the United States can also help you a lot. And yes, you stand in front of the cooler, you record with the phone what you say, while you watch carefully, how you confess words and phrases. It is very important how you open your mouth and how you recognize the sounds. And finally - the most important part! Practice. Speak to people in English. Talk to other students in English. If you find a stranger, tell him that you want to improve your English and ask him to become your interlocutor. And let me tell you - concentrate on using your tongue. Grammar is important, but if you can't speak and express yourself, no one cares that you don't have spelling mistakes. Well that's it. That's how I learned. So I learned two more foreign languages. Now I'm studying fourth, but somehow I don't like the muse. Success!
English is by no means a complicated language. I understand it was Chinese or Korean, but we're talking English. Without him you are nowhere, literally. And what are these 5 words, I studied in high school 50-60, if not more, I have no memory. Read literature, watch movies without subtitles, listen to a lot of music, meet more foreigners online. It is not possible to lie only in Bulgarian nowadays.
I completely understand you. And so I am with English. There are just people who obviously can't learn a language if they don't speak it. So, I studied this language for 15 years (now I'm 26) and I still don't know it. It is not just a question of words. You can know 1000 and still speak horribly. PRACTICE is important. There is no way to learn to compose sentences correctly if you do not read and speak to people in English. I know many words in English. If I need to read something, I understand. My level there is B1-B2. However, as I have to say ... horror. The words don't come to me and that's it. And if they talk to me, they have to repeat it to me twice to understand. Unlike that, I learned Spanish in 3 months! When I came to Spain, I immediately started talking about it. At first I didn't understand almost anything, but after 3 months I understood almost everything, I had a rich vocabulary. After a year in Spain, I spoke perfectly. And Spanish is grammatically twice as complex as English. I advise you to focus on private lessons with an English speaker. And if you have the opportunity, go to England for 1 month. You will see that in 1 month you will learn a lot. You will be amazed. It's just that when you're in such an environment, you imperceptibly start thinking in that language.