Building English Skills by playing game

Building English Skills by playing game.

Games may be known as entertainment by people. However, we should know game gives a good profit in improving our skills. In several games, there’s story, gameplay, songs, conversation, and others. We can learn English by playing games. A game is exciting if it has story. Some games, particularly ones with sequel and they’re in English, have imaginative storylines. Conversation by conversation will happen as we play the game, and by that conversation, we can learn English and improve our English skills from it. Especially there are some games which conversation is spoken by Native Speaker who works as Voice Actor such as Dynasty Warriors 3 until 7, so we can improve our listening skills and pronunciation. Understanding the story of the game means we have good reading, good at comprehending and good listening. Here are some games that I recommend you to play:

1.       Harvest Moon: Back to Nature (PSX/PS1, PC Emulator: ePSXe, PSX Emulator)

My biggest recommendation goes to Harvest Moon, since it is the best game which does not provide any violence. This game is absolutely fun to be played. We name our character, we manage the farm, we manage our chickens, we manage our cows and sheep, we marry with one of 5 single girls in the town with some boys as rival, we socialize with people in the town, we participate the festival in the town, and many more. Notice the conversation has some relatively unfamiliar words, so it will absolutely improve your vocabulary. Those screenshots there are the gameplay of Harvest Moon: BTN. Cool, isn’t it? ;-) But this game in the beginning is a pain in the ass. We have to learn first how we crop, how we feed the animals and many things to learn.

2.       Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green (GameBoy Advance , PC Emulator: VBA)

Pokemon is a fun game indeed. Pokemon is totally common to people in America as their childhood game, but actually even some of them who are around 30 or older, still play this game. This game is about the main character; whether we decide as boy or girl, wish to become a Pokemon Master by collecting 151 Pokemons throughout the world. We will be a Pokemon trainer, raising them until they are strong, and we will have to fight wild Pokemon, or other trainer Pokemon. Fighting the other trainer’s Pokemon will make our Pokemon stronger, but we can’t catch other trainer’s Pokemon. Wild pokemon can’t really be a good way to train our Pokemon, but we can catch them and make them our Pokemon. Some Pokemons may evolve depending on what level they are or requirements to do, for example my favorite Pokemon on the game, Squirtle, will evolve to Wartortle when he reaches level 18, and will evolve again to Blastoise when it reaches level 36. Other example is Eevee, who will not evolve no matter what level you are. You will have to give her an item in order to make her evolves. For example, give Eevee Thunderstone, and she will evolve into Jolteon. In this game you will have a rival in the very first start of the game, just like the main character, we can name our rival as well. Some people said this game is a good media to learn English, as this game was actually aimed for kids, but instead was played even by those who are in 30 until 35.

Pokemon Fire Red: Battle against wild Pokemon;
Charmeleon vs Butterfree

Pokemon Fire Red: Main character (with red hat)

3.       Digimon World 1 (PSX/PS1, PC Emulator same as Harvest Moon)

This game is one of the biggest memories of gaming world to Indonesian children back in around 1995 until 2005, when PS2 entered Indonesia. Most children who have ever played PSX/PS1 have also ever played Digimon World 1. This game will have the main character sucked into the Digital World; he is the Chosen One who is going to save the Digital World from chaos, with his Digimon. As we play the game, we will see a Digimon following us wherever we go. It is actually our pet, we will start whether having Agumon as starter or Gabumon. I recommend you to have Agumon as it will have a stronger Digivolution, Greymon. This game is exciting, we will train our Digimon, we will feed it, we will let it rest, we will let it poop, we will raise its stats so it will digivolve into a stronger Digimon, and many of it. The Digimon will fight for us if a wild Digimon intentionally or unintentionally approaches us, or we approach the wild Digimon. The main goal of the game is to recruit the non-Wild Digimons such as Agumon or Greymon to return to the city. Some recruit able Digimon will fight in order to have it return to the city, some will give us quest. Just like Pokemon, Digimon will also evolve, but it depends on the time, and in Digimon it is known as Digivolve instead of evolve. Unlike Pokemon, Digimon will digivolve depends on stats of the Digimon. In other words, to digivolve we will have to meet the requirements. There are several Digimon we may want to evolve, for example if you start as Agumon, it may digivolve into Greymon, Centarumon, Meramon, Monochromon, Tyrannomon or Birdramon. If we wish to digivolve as Greymon, we must have our stats same as the requirement to have Greymon. The further information can be found in some sites like Gamefaqs, or Gamespot. Notice that the conversation in this game is using plain old English.

Our character and our pet (the yellow one) in a city

Our Digimon fighting the Wild Digimon

4.       Dynasty Warriors 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 (PS2 for DW3, 4, 5 and 6 PS3 for DW7 and 8)

I recommend Dynasty Warriors 4, 5 or 7 for this one. I haven’t played the DW8 yet, since it’s still new. This game has native English as its voice actor. We may be able to hear the pronunciation. We may learn the ancient China History, as this game is based on the novel written by Luo Guanzhong: Romance of The Three Kingdom. Those 3 Kingdoms are Shu, Wei, Wu. Even the characters are based on real figures f the three Kingdoms. If we play DW5, we may play as one of the character in whether Shu, Wei, Wu, and Other. For example, if, in the game, we play as Zhao Yun, then we play for Shu forces. Or if we play as Zhang Liao, then we play for Wei forces. There are more than 40 characters in DW5, more than 70 characters in DW7. In DW7, there is one more forces beside Shu, Wei, Wu, it is Jin, a Dynasty that, in the end, conquered China. DW7 has different play from DW4, 5 and 6. For storylines, we will play as forces instead of characters. The forces are Shu, Wei, Wu, and Jin. We can not play as Other forces. For example, if we play as Wei forces, we will start as Xiahou Dun in the first stage, but it will change to Cao Cao in the second stage. In other words, each stage MAY have different characters to be played as. As we play the game, beware of Lu Bu of Other forces. Lu Bu kicks ass! He is the very strongest character in the game that we may avoid fighting him. We may have our favorite character in the game, whether it is due to their looks, their history, their personality, their moves, or their belief. As for myself, my very favorite is Zhang Liao from Wei Forces, below him; there are Zhang Fei from Shu, Sun Ce from Wu, Sima Yi from Wei and the first leader of Dynasty Jin, and Lu Bu from Other.

DW7: Lu Bu’s EX move

DW5: Guan Yu slashes

Building English Skills by playing game.

Games may be known as entertainment by people. However, we should know game gives a good profit in improving our skills. In several games, there’s story, gameplay, songs, conversation, and others. We can learn English by playing games. A game is exciting if it has story. Some games, particularly ones with sequel and they’re in English, have imaginative storylines. Conversation by conversation will happen as we play the game, and by that conversation, we can learn English and improve our English skills from it. Especially there are some games which conversation is spoken by Native Speaker who works as Voice Actor such as Dynasty Warriors 3 until 7, so we can improve our listening skills and pronunciation. Understanding the story of the game means we have good reading, good at comprehending and good listening. Here are some games that I recommend you to play:

1.       Harvest Moon: Back to Nature (PSX/PS1, PC Emulator: ePSXe, PSX Emulator)

My biggest recommendation goes to Harvest Moon, since it is the best game which does not provide any violence. This game is absolutely fun to be played. We name our character, we manage the farm, we manage our chickens, we manage our cows and sheep, we marry with one of 5 single girls in the town with some boys as rival, we socialize with people in the town, we participate the festival in the town, and many more. Notice the conversation has some relatively unfamiliar words, so it will absolutely improve your vocabulary. Those screenshots there are the gameplay of Harvest Moon: BTN. Cool, isn’t it? ;-) But this game in the beginning is a pain in the ass. We have to learn first how we crop, how we feed the animals and many things to learn.

2.       Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green (GameBoy Advance , PC Emulator: VBA)

Pokemon is a fun game indeed. Pokemon is totally common to people in America as their childhood game, but actually even some of them who are around 30 or older, still play this game. This game is about the main character; whether we decide as boy or girl, wish to become a Pokemon Master by collecting 151 Pokemons throughout the world. We will be a Pokemon trainer, raising them until they are strong, and we will have to fight wild Pokemon, or other trainer Pokemon. Fighting the other trainer’s Pokemon will make our Pokemon stronger, but we can’t catch other trainer’s Pokemon. Wild pokemon can’t really be a good way to train our Pokemon, but we can catch them and make them our Pokemon. Some Pokemons may evolve depending on what level they are or requirements to do, for example my favorite Pokemon on the game, Squirtle, will evolve to Wartortle when he reaches level 18, and will evolve again to Blastoise when it reaches level 36. Other example is Eevee, who will not evolve no matter what level you are. You will have to give her an item in order to make her evolves. For example, give Eevee Thunderstone, and she will evolve into Jolteon. In this game you will have a rival in the very first start of the game, just like the main character, we can name our rival as well. Some people said this game is a good media to learn English, as this game was actually aimed for kids, but instead was played even by those who are in 30 until 35.

Pokemon Fire Red: Battle against wild Pokemon;
Charmeleon vs Butterfree

Pokemon Fire Red: Main character (with red hat)

3.       Digimon World 1 (PSX/PS1, PC Emulator same as Harvest Moon)

This game is one of the biggest memories of gaming world to Indonesian children back in around 1995 until 2005, when PS2 entered Indonesia. Most children who have ever played PSX/PS1 have also ever played Digimon World 1. This game will have the main character sucked into the Digital World; he is the Chosen One who is going to save the Digital World from chaos, with his Digimon. As we play the game, we will see a Digimon following us wherever we go. It is actually our pet, we will start whether having Agumon as starter or Gabumon. I recommend you to have Agumon as it will have a stronger Digivolution, Greymon. This game is exciting, we will train our Digimon, we will feed it, we will let it rest, we will let it poop, we will raise its stats so it will digivolve into a stronger Digimon, and many of it. The Digimon will fight for us if a wild Digimon intentionally or unintentionally approaches us, or we approach the wild Digimon. The main goal of the game is to recruit the non-Wild Digimons such as Agumon or Greymon to return to the city. Some recruit able Digimon will fight in order to have it return to the city, some will give us quest. Just like Pokemon, Digimon will also evolve, but it depends on the time, and in Digimon it is known as Digivolve instead of evolve. Unlike Pokemon, Digimon will digivolve depends on stats of the Digimon. In other words, to digivolve we will have to meet the requirements. There are several Digimon we may want to evolve, for example if you start as Agumon, it may digivolve into Greymon, Centarumon, Meramon, Monochromon, Tyrannomon or Birdramon. If we wish to digivolve as Greymon, we must have our stats same as the requirement to have Greymon. The further information can be found in some sites like Gamefaqs, or Gamespot. Notice that the conversation in this game is using plain old English.

Our character and our pet (the yellow one) in a city

Our Digimon fighting the Wild Digimon

4.       Dynasty Warriors 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 (PS2 for DW3, 4, 5 and 6 PS3 for DW7 and 8)

I recommend Dynasty Warriors 4, 5 or 7 for this one. I haven’t played the DW8 yet, since it’s still new. This game has native English as its voice actor. We may be able to hear the pronunciation. We may learn the ancient China History, as this game is based on the novel written by Luo Guanzhong: Romance of The Three Kingdom. Those 3 Kingdoms are Shu, Wei, Wu. Even the characters are based on real figures f the three Kingdoms. If we play DW5, we may play as one of the character in whether Shu, Wei, Wu, and Other. For example, if, in the game, we play as Zhao Yun, then we play for Shu forces. Or if we play as Zhang Liao, then we play for Wei forces. There are more than 40 characters in DW5, more than 70 characters in DW7. In DW7, there is one more forces beside Shu, Wei, Wu, it is Jin, a Dynasty that, in the end, conquered China. DW7 has different play from DW4, 5 and 6. For storylines, we will play as forces instead of characters. The forces are Shu, Wei, Wu, and Jin. We can not play as Other forces. For example, if we play as Wei forces, we will start as Xiahou Dun in the first stage, but it will change to Cao Cao in the second stage. In other words, each stage MAY have different characters to be played as. As we play the game, beware of Lu Bu of Other forces. Lu Bu kicks ass! He is the very strongest character in the game that we may avoid fighting him. We may have our favorite character in the game, whether it is due to their looks, their history, their personality, their moves, or their belief. As for myself, my very favorite is Zhang Liao from Wei Forces, below him; there are Zhang Fei from Shu, Sun Ce from Wu, Sima Yi from Wei and the first leader of Dynasty Jin, and Lu Bu from Other.

DW7: Lu Bu’s EX move

DW5: Guan Yu slashes

DW7: Playing as Cao Cao of Wei forces/The first leader of Wei

DW7: Wallpaper of Zhang Liao

DW7: Playing as Cao Cao of Wei forces/The first leader of Wei

DW7: Wallpaper of Zhang Liao

Learning English with adventure games

by Tomasz P. Szynalski

Taken from http://www.antimoon.com/how/advgames.htm

Grim Fandango — possibly the greatest adventure game of all time.

What is an adventure game?

An adventure game is a kind of computer game which is similar to a movie. There is always a story and the maincharacter (usually a person, such as a detective or a pirate). The difference is that you don’t just watch — instead, you control the maincharacter. You use your mouse or keyboard, and yourcharacter moves around in the game world, looks at things, picks them up, uses them, and talks to other characters. Your character also talks to you. For example, when you tell him to look at something, he will tell you what he sees. You can then use this information to decide what to do next.

Why adventure games are good for your English

Your main goal as an English learner should be to see and hear lots of English sentences (get lots of input). This gives you the ability to produce similar sentences yourself. Of all videogames, adventure games provide the most input because they are based on dialogue. Your character talks to himself, talks to you and talks to other characters. In an adventure game, your progress depends completely on understanding the dialogue.

In most adventure games, you can hear what the characters are saying andread it at the same time. This means that you hear the pronunciation and see the spelling at the same time. As a result, the sentences stick in your head more strongly.

Playing adventure games gives you benefits similar to watching movies with subtitles:

• You program your brain with good English. Adventure games provide mostly informal, conversational input, which is very useful for producing your own sentences.
• You improve your understanding of spoken English (listening comprehension).
• You learn the correct pronunciation of English words and sounds.
• You learn the correct spelling of English words.
• You increase your motivation. When you play an adventure game, you are in a situation where knowing English makes you feel good. It’s simple. If you can understand the dialogue, you know what is going on in the game. This helps you solve the puzzles and understand the humor. You have fun. You teach your brain that “English = pleasure”, and your motivation increases!

How to use adventure games

When you’re playing an adventure game, you learn some English even if you don’t want to. But of course you can learn even more if you try.

One useful technique when playing an adventure game is very simple: use a dictionary. Pause the game frequently and look up new English words in agood dictionary for learners. You will understand more of the game, and of course you will learn some English vocabulary.

If you are really motivated to learn English, you can write down all the new words. Later, you can add these words to your SRS collection so that you will remember them forever. This is what I did when I was learning English in high school.

If you want to improve your pronunciation, pause the game frequently and try to repeat English sentences as well as you can. This is a greatpronunciation exercise, and it’s much more interesting than exercises intextbooks. Adventure games are a good choice for this because the pronunciation in those games is usually clearer than the pronunciation in movies.

If you are especially interested in improving your understanding of spoken English, you can play the game without subtitles. In order to play, you will have to understand spoken language. At first, you will surely have problems, but you will become better and better. Notice that when using this technique, it will be difficult to look up words in a dictionary, because you will not see the words on the screen — you will only hear them.

Recommended games

Which adventure game should you play? I used to have a simple answer: any game from LucasArts. LucasArts adventure games have an intelligent story (more intelligent than most Hollywood movies), excellent humor, beautiful graphics, stirring music, and voices of talented actors. They do somethingamazing: they suck you in and make you feel a part of another world. When I was 13, I would shiver from excitement whenever I would solve a puzzle inIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade, often after two days of trying. In high school, I remember I had tears in my eyes after I reached the end of Grim Fandango.

Unfortunately, LucasArts published its last original adventure (Escape from Monkey Island) in 2001, and its last great adventure (Grim Fandango) in 1998. Adventure games have lost popularity. Today, there are fewer games based on dialogue, and more games based on running around and shooting. And most of the LucasArts classics like Day of the Tentacle or Full Throttle look absolutely horrible on today’s big LCD screens.

So what should you do? Here are some options:

The opening scene from The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
• The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition(trailer | official site) — In 2009, LucasArts surprised everyone by releasing a remake of The Secret of Monkey Island, the cult classic that started theMonkey Island series. All the graphics have been drawn again in high resolution, the wonderful music has been re-recorded, and voice actors have been hired to record the dialogue. It is amazing how faithful the remake is to the original. Every object on the screen and every piece of music are exactly where they were in 1991. In fact, at any point in the game, you can press F10 to switch to the “classic” version with 256-color, low-resolution graphics.
  For those who haven’t heard about this game, The Secret of Monkey Islandis set in the Caribbean. You are a young lad with a funny name, whose dream is to become a pirate. As you work towards your goal, you become part of a much bigger story which involves the island’s beautiful governor and an evil pirate who fell in love with her. The plot is a brilliant mix of unexpected events, quirky humor, and mystery. The game costs only €9 on Steam and you can also play it on the Xbox and the iPhone. What are you waiting for?

• Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge: Special Edition (trailer |official site) — This is another remake released by LucasArts a year afterThe Secret of Monkey Island. Having earned his pirate stripes in the first game, our hero Guybrush Threepwood is now a confident young man with a stylish beard, new clothes and a small fortune. Wanting to prove himself once again, he has come to Scabb Island in search of a legendary treasure called Big Whoop.
  Alongside Monkey 1, Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango, Monkey 2was a game which gave me my most memorable gaming experiences in my teen years. There was a time when I would spend most of my free time thinking about how to solve another puzzle in the game. Those of you who have played Monkey 1, be advised: this is a much longer and harder game than its predecessor. You can buy Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge for just €10 on Steam (PC). Also available on Xbox, PS3, iPhone and iPad.
• Tales of Monkey Island (trailer | official site) — The latest part of theMonkey Island saga is a mini-series developed by Telltale Games. There will be five chapters, one released every month. Based on the first part, I have to say that this game is not as good as the first three Monkey Island games: the graphics are less pretty (why did they do it in 3D?), the plot andcharacters are less original, and the humor is more sitcom-like. If you like the other Monkey Island games, you might as well give it a try — the game has some good moments.

Max from Sam & Max: Season One
• Sam & Max (trailer |official site) — Telltale Games have recently released Sam & Max: Season One and Season Two — two mini-series, each containing 5-6 episodes based on thecharacters of Sam (a dog in a suit) and Max (a hyper-violent rabbit). The characters and the humor are identical to those inSam & Max Hit the Road by LucasArts (1993). It was not LucasArts’ best game, but it was pretty good.
  Both games (or “series”) have cartoon-like 3-D graphics and run well on modern computers. They have spoken dialogues, and you can also turn onsubtitles. One problem is that Sam and Max talk in a very unusual, colorful style, using a lot of words that are difficult even for native speakers. They say things like: “surely the local lawbreakers must be missing our esoteric brand of personalized justice”. The language is definitely not for beginners.

Curse of Monkey Island. Talking to Murray, the “all-powerful demonic skull”...
• The three most recent LucasArts games run in 640x480 resolution, which is (barely) playable on today’s computers. They all have spoken dialogues, and you can turn on subtitles. These games are:
  • Grim Fandango (trailer| intro) — according to many people, best adventure game in history. Epic story, unique world, stylish graphics, atmospheric music, great voice acting. Everything in this game is full of artistic vision.
  • Curse of Monkey Island (intro | gameplay) — very enjoyable, stronginstallment in the Monkey Island series.
  • Escape from Monkey Island (intro) — definitely the weakest of theMonkey Island series; try the other Monkey Island games first.
  Three pieces of advice here:
  1. On Windows XP and Vista, right-click the game’s shortcut, choose Properties, and enable “Windows 95 compatibility”.
  2. Install the latest patch available.
  3. For 3-D games (Grim Fandango, Escape from Monkey Island), turn on anti-aliasing in your video card settings to avoid jagged lines. For The Curse of Monkey Island, try running the game in ScummVM with 2x scaling. Looks surprisingly good!

Full Throttle. Low-resolution graphics look OK here, but terrible on a 19-inch monitor.
• If you are crazy like me, you can run ancientLucasArts games(320x200 resolution) in theScummVM emulator. You can try finding the CD versions of Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle andThe Dig. These games have versions with spoken dialogues and they are one of the best adventures by LucasArts, with excellent screenplays and great voice acting. Just watch theintro to Full Throttle on YouTube.
  I’m crazy enough to play these games full-screen (with 2x scaling) while sitting far away from my monitor. If I sit on a couch and use a mouse with a long cable, I can barely notice the huge blocky pixels :-) You might prefer playing these games on your Pocket PC or Symbian device with ScummVM. They fit perfectly even on small screens.
• You might try looking for action-adventure games which have more dialogue than others. In games like Half-Life, BioShock, Fallout 3, Mass Effect or Deus Ex, you mostly walk around, kill enemies and collect variousitems, but there are also moments when you listen to other characters or audio/video recordings in the game. Such moments enable you to learn some English, although not as much as in pure adventure games.

Expectation vs Reality

Expectation vs Reality is what we expect, doesn't fit, or totally different from what we feel or what we see. But fuck the explanation, let us just go to the picture anyway. Anyway, the pictures are taken from www.smosh.com, xaxor.com, and expectationvsreality.net.


That's it! I think you people surely have ever expreienced the same thing as well! =D

You Don't Say?!

You Don't Say is, umm, for example like this:

Random Reporter: THE BURNING HOUSE is reported to be caused by FIRE.
Me watching the TV: You Don't Say?!

It is clear that the burning house is caused by fire, but he/she still said it. Other example is:

Random student: Do we have to do this assignment?
Teacher: No, just eat that assignment.

Okay, people, that's it. Let me display you some You Don't Say compilation taken from these sites:
Memecenter.com, ragestaches.com, trollino.com and many more.

5 Tips of being good at English language

5 Tips of being good at The English language

Here, I will share you guys and girls (and other genders perhaps ಠ_ಠ) from what I experienced, and how I acquire English. I have 5 tips that you may follow. My tips may be quite, or a bit, or even absolutely crazy. But that, frankly, has helped me to acquire English. What? Aah, the tips? Okay, okay, here they are:



1. Read some English caption

Reading is the perfect way to build English sub-skills, particularly in Vocabulary and Grammar. But wait, why English caption? Not books? No, because the book is not the only thing you can read. But beware, most written things that can be read are not always good in grammar (in my case, Game). Books, by this far, is the written things which its grammar is almost never wrong, because some written things, like an article, may have flaws in grammar. Therefore, I suppose to read a book is the perfect way to build both your vocabulary and grammar. By the way, I may call you “A Careful Person” if you notice there is a grammar mistake on this paragraph since this is an article. =D

2. Listen to English Audio (Song, Movie, Game conversation, anything)

Most people remember easily when it comes to song. Not just English stuffs, as a Muslim, I can remember Verses, or not impossible, the whole Verses of Qur’an if they are recited beautifully and I can sing it along. AND once we memorize a surah, a long one with a lot of verses, we will sooner or later forget it if we do not keep and apply it during Sholat. If Verses can be remembered, anything in English or any language would be easy to memorize. There are a lot of English Songs out there. Even in Indonesia, there are many bands which have songs in English. When we find an unfamiliar word, for example the word “Endless” in Just Take My Heart by Mr.Big, we can remember the song every time we see the word in case we forget that word. Audio, anyway, is also the perfect way to build English sub-skills: Vocabulary and Pronunciation.

3. Try to speak up yourself

This is it, ladies and gentlemen; this IS when you will apply your English. This is when you finally express what you have known, what you have read, and what you have listened. You can demonstrate it by talking to yourself in the mirror. Just consider you are talking to talk to yourself, share everything, about Family, Love, Friend, Religion and anything you can share. You can also demonstrate it by singing, especially for they who like it so much. By singing, you can actually know how good is your English, and is a good way to memorize more Vocabularies. Not enough? No challenge? Grab your hand phone, and then pretend talking to your friend or someone in English by phone, wherever you are. Doing this in the public may build your charisma (What? Oh, it may actually.) and your confidence. You may also decrease your nervous when you are going to talk in public. But you may be considered:

a. Crazy, of course if someone realized you even have no pulsa. Lol

b. Arrogant, people you know or you don’t know may consider you like this.

If you desperate to try this disregarding of what you may be considered for the greater good, then try it. (ง'̀⌣'́)ง I have tried talking to the mirror, singing and pretending to talk to the phone. By the way, wondering in English could be said as speaking. lol

4. Find a partner to communicate to

Bored of self-talking? Or do not want to do it? Then test yourself by talking to other persons who can also speak English. This is an effective way to acquire English quickly. Wait, is it just English? (´・ω・`) No, not really, but all language. THIS is the second way for us to apply English, no, to apply any language in reality after we have read and we have listened. But in our case, it’s English. My brother is my daily partner in speaking English. I also have some partners in my class. Just remember, "Knowing is not enough, we must apply", said Leonardo Da Vinci, an Italian Artist (1452-1519)

5. Try to communicate with a Lecturer or a Native Speaker

Do you agree if I say this is the best among 4 of my tips? Aah, I don’t know I have to name it tips or steps, because the fifth is more like the final among 4 others. d(◕_◕)b Anyway, Communicating in English with Lecturer, who have learned English more than we do, is a really good way to sharpen your English. Most English lecturers have ever talked to Native Speakers. How about Native Speaker itself? This is a REAL test, and the best application for us. Communicating to a Native Speaker is the best way to whether acquire or improve your English. Try to chat with Native Speaker no matter what. This is a Kingdom named Internet, where people in all over the world gather on, having no idea who their kings are, are still bound by law (like Copyright, banning and others), and many more. We have Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Google+, YouTube, and many other facilities for us in order to be able to chat. As for myself, I mostly and often used YouTube to chat and to message with native speaker.



Just like in the fifth tips, I, again, don’t know whether to name it tips or steps. Disregarding of that, you can actually use this tips to learn and to acquire other languages like Japanese, Italian, and Korean. For this case, remember, just keep trying and...

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