Friday 30 March 2012

Let's learn English together

Hi, I'm Yan Aung Soe. I am currently working in Singapore for a couple of years. The reason I'm creating this blog is only because whenever I was talking to foreigners, they mostly look down to Myanmar people because they think we can't speak English well enough. I've been thinking about having an environment where we can learn English together. So, here I am. Although I can't speak English as a native speaker, I'm very well confident with talking to them. You may say, what's the big deal? Yes, it's not. But What I'm trying to do now is for those who want to speak English fluently, automatically and easily, I have a few secrets that can make you to be one. I've been in your shoes before too. When I started living here, I was so scared to talk in English. I'm sure most of us can write a good English. I believe that most of us have a degree or two back in Myanmar. Writing is not a problem at all. The only problem is we couldn't speak fluently, automatically. What we do mostly when we speak is that we think in Myanmar, translate into English and then after that we speak. So, you see the point? It's so hard to speak what we want to say. I've been studying English in different ways for some years. I've learnt both in bad and good ways. What I usually do is to set the goal first and then take action. If the action is not working out, I change the approach. That's what I've been doing. For example, I used to learn by heart ten words per day. I thought by one year, I will gain 3,650 new words, which is very impressive for me. But in reality, it's not working out at all. I forgot most of the meanings after fairly amount of time. I studied by heart that day. I forgot the next day. I repeated the same thing again and again and again. But it was not working out. You know why? Because the ways we have been taught are wrong. We can't just memorise the individual word and try not to forget it till the rest of our lives. It's just simply wrong. You see the point? It's only the way we learn. I have a few methods that have proven to me that can make everyone of us to be able to learn English and speak it fluently, easily and automatically. I'll stop it for now. The next blog I'm going to write is about a method that we can use to learn English in effortless way. Please stay tune in. If you have any comment or question or feedback, I strongly encourage you to hit me back. Your opinion is always welcome. I'll see you soon, friends. Cheers Yan Aung Soe