How To Learn English: The Practical Guide
How To Learn English: The Practical Guide
The Guide
Practical
We have developed a step-by-step system for you
learn English in a simpler way and
effective!
Lucas Campos
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Introduction to the Guide
Hello, everything alright?
My name is Lucas Campos and I am the author of this guide you downloaded, How to Learn
The practical guide will help you start your English studies the right way,
If you have already studied, you will learn really effective activities that will make you
learn even faster.
This guide includes a step-by-step process of 3 steps where you will learn what the
skills that a language has and how to study all of them in an intelligent way,
I hope you like the guide and really put all the information into practice that
contains in it.
Thank you very much for downloading the guide and happy studying!
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Step 1 The 4 Skills
Let's begin this guide by talking about the 4 skills of a language, a language is
Reading
By mastering the 4 skills, you are already able to communicate in English.
1 Reading
This is the easiest skill of a language, reading is easy because you have the information.
"pure", you just need to understand the meaning of the words without caring about
accent, pronunciations or anything,
Reading is easier but still extremely necessary, it is what will make with
that you learn a lot of vocabulary and expressions in English but obviously she won't
Let's make you fluent in English, so let's move on to the next skill.
2 Listening
The second easiest skill (and no less important) is listening, it is based on
simply understanding everything that is spoken, this ability ends up being forgotten (or not
having so much focus) and that is why many people do not learn English.
Listening is essential; without it, you will NEVER be able to learn English, that's why
keep in mind you should listen to muuuuuch English audio.
Speaking
This skill is a bit more difficult and requires knowledge of the language, speaking is
essential for communication, and that's why you should practice it a lot to learn it.
pronounce correctly the sound of each word.
4 Writing
This is definitely the most difficult skill because besides having to know everything that
It is saying and what each thing means you still have to know the correct spelling.
of each word.
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However, you can see that just like all other skills, writing is very
important and you will need it to learn English in a simpler way.
Step 1: Select a text, book, article in English with audio also in English, music
it's not so effective you should learn the English spoken in day-to-day and consequently you will
understand everything.
Step 2: Select between 10 to 20 words from this text every day and memorize them.
this is until you memorize most of the words of the text,
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Step 4: After you have downloaded Anki, you take the words you selected and get the translation.
from all of them, then assemble a deck with these words in the part of
You put the word in Portuguese that you will memorize
(what would be the answer) put the same words only in English, do this with
all words to build a deck.
Step 5: Now with the deck ready, just study it, go to the decks section and choose the deck.
which mounted and click on "Study now", the words will start to
to appear on the screen in Portuguese now just write on a sheet of draft paper
say the same word and pronounce it in English then click to see the answer
see if you got it right or not, if you miss repeat and keep doing this with all the words until
you complete the whole deck without getting any wrong.
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These steps summarize well how to start studying English, first by
vocabulary decoration and for that you use the 2 activities listening + reading and writing
+ speak. Write and pronounce all the words you are going to memorize and after doing the exercise.
listen and read the text you are studying.
This exercise already helps you drastically to learn English, obviously there are others.
important activities to do but this one makes you train the 4 skills in just 2
exercises.
So in addition to memorizing the vocabulary of the texts, you should study every week a
new grammatical tense to learn what expressions are, the modal verbs, that is you
you need to have a basic knowledge of grammar and for that you shouldn't keep reading
you don't have to memorize a thousand rules, just understand each rule of each tense.
grammar is understood and not memorized, as soon as you understand the logic of the rules of
Everything gets easier in English.
In addition to grammar and formal language, it is worth highlighting that you will encounter
a lot of slang and informal language in your studies, especially when you arrive
at the intermediate level and start watching series in English with English subtitles, for
this get knowledge of the language whether grammar, expressions, slang, you need
having a lot of contact with English daily is the secret.
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Conclusion
And the end of the guide has arrived, so let's review everything to simplify it, but first
Thank you very much for reading the guide to help in your personal development with English.