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Winkydragonfly · Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 392 Location: China

Er...

To many students,the summer holiday is coming!
Have you planned for your summer holiday?
Is learning English in your plan?
If so,what are you going to do? Question

I decide to come here as often as possible,er....to practise my English~`
Every morning,get up early and read English,recite more English words!
And....
I haven't thought of other ways!

Who would like to come here and give me some good suggestions?
Thank you very much~~ Rolling Eyes

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Cynthia111 · Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 8 Location: jiangsu,China

hello ,I am a chinese too.nice to meet u , I am also learning English at present .I like the English language,but it's very difficult to memory he words . Crying or Very sad

I am not a student now.i have been a worker of a foreign trade Corp. but my English is so poor .i think the English is important to me for my job.How I envy you as a student .U have lots of time to master.i think u will have great progress in your English.wish u !

regards!

Winkydragonfly · Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 392 Location: China

And now.I find that to listen to English songs can also help us to learn English!
Especially it is good for our listening!
Agree? Wink

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Winky has made many mistakes in her compositions.Sorry about that.But winky has confidence in herself,she will try to write much better than before.

CP · Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 2875 Location: California

A Chinese person whose first language is the Cantonese dialect, second the Mandarin dialect, and third is English -- and who is now fluent in all three -- tells me that watching movies and in the foreign language and talking to people in that language are the best ways to really learn it.

What a good excuse to watch a lot of movies!
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Mallaien · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:11 pm Post subject:

American music is good to learn to pronounce english words, as long as there proper words. You wont get far in english school if you use allot of the slag used in amaerican rap music.

also because the music is poetic, not all the sentances are used properly.

well Rap is only poetic in rhyme, and rhythm. the context of rap is garbage.
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Winkydragonfly · Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 392 Location: China

Mallaien · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject:

well I have not been listining to music for a while. most of what I like in america is dated rounf 1995 to 1998, because that was the time of my highschool years.

for the most part that music would be hard becasue the words are not that easy to hear over the loud music.

youknow english news on TV might help, because youcan hear them speak, and they show video to go along with it. that would help to connect english words with what is going on in the video. most likly you can see BBC on televisions all over the world.
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Winkydragonfly · Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 392 Location: China