Tips on Studying a Foreign Language
Learning another language is not easy, but most people can learn a second language IF they are willing to put in the necessary time. Here are some practical suggestions for studying effectively, overcoming anxiety, and learning the grammar and skills necessary for success in foreign language classes.
1. STUDY EVERY DAY! A foreign language course is different from any other course you take. Language learning is cumulative: you cannot put it off until the weekend. Study 1 or 2 hours for every class hour if you want an A or B.
2. DISTRIBUTE YOUR STUDY TIME in 15- to 30-minute periods throughout the day. Focus on a different task each time: vocabulary now, grammar next, etc. Get an overview during the first half hour: spend 10 minutes reviewing dialog, 10 minutes learning new vocabulary, 10 minutes learning new grammar...so you'll at least have looked at it all. Approximately 80% of your study time should be spent in recitation or practice, including practice in the language lab.
3. ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE IN EVERY CLASS--even if you are not well prepared. Class time is your best opportunity to practice. Learn the grammar and vocabulary outside of class in order to make the most of class time. Spend a few minutes "warming up" before each class by speaking or reading the language.
4. MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE IN THE CLASSROOM. Get to know your classmates, so you will feel you are among friends. Visit your instructor during office hours to get acquainted: explain your goals and fears about the course to your instructor.
5. LEARN GRAMMAR IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW IT. Grammar is the skeleton of a language, its basic structure: you must learn it. Review a simplified English grammar text. Compare new grammatical structures in your foreign language to their English equivalents.
6. PRACTICE FOR TESTS by doing what you will have to do on the test. If the test will require you to write, then study by writing--including spelling and accents. If you will be asked to listen, then practice listening. Ask for practice questions; make up your own test questions. Invent variations on patterns and forms. Over-learn: study beyond the point of recognition to mastery.
7. DEVELOP A GOOD ATTITUDE. Have a clear personal reason for taking the class. Set personal goals for what you want to learn. Leave perfectionism at the door; give yourself permission to make mistakes and learn from them.
8. GET HELP IF YOU NEED IT. Talk with your teacher. Form study groups among class members. Use tutoring services. Don't wait!
READING and WRITING a foreign language are analytical skills. You may be good at these if you are a logical person who attends to detail. Train yourself through practice to notice and remember details such as accents and gender agreement.
READING SKILLS TIPS:
1. First, read the vocabulary list for the assignment. Next, read the questions about the reading. Then read all the way through a new passage two or three times, guessing at meaning from context. Avoid word-by-word translation. It is a waste of time!
2. Isolate new vocabulary and study it separately. DON'T write between the lines! Make flash cards. Carry them with you and recite them several times during the day at odd moments. Overlearn them until they are automatic.
3. Isolate new grammatical forms and study them separately. Write the pattern on a flash card and memorize it. Write out and label a model sentence. When you encounter the form while reading, pause and recite the pattern to recognize the form.
WRITING SKILLS TIPS:
1. Pay attention to detail: notice accents, order of letters, etc. Compare letter-by-letter different forms (singular, plural, gender, etc.). Write out conjugations of verbs, declensions of pro-nouns, etc., and check your endings. Memorize irregular verbs.
2. To master spelling, have a friend dictate 10 words to you. Write them out and immediately have your friend spell them correctly aloud while you look carefully and point at each letter. Repeat until you get all the words right.
3. Write (in your own simple foreign vocabulary words) a story you have just read.
LISTENING and SPEAKING are performance skills. You may do well at these if you are naturally outgoing. Students in foreign language classes often have difficulty hearing and speaking because they are anxious about making mistakes. It's OK to make mistakes! Have fun trying to speak!
LISTENING SKILLS TIPS:
1. Frequent the language lab. Read the exercises in your book first; then listen and read together; then listen without looking at the print. Say aloud/write what you hear.
2. Participate silently in class when others are called on to speak. Focus on the task; don't worry about how you'll do.
3. If you feel nervous, relax yourself physically by taking a couple of slow, deep breaths. When called on, pause, relax, and give yourself time to respond.
4. Listen while a friend dictates to you and write what you hear. Check for accuracy.
5. Practice: join language clubs, watch foreign TV, listen to foreign radio.
SPEAKING SKILLS TIPS:
1. Study out loud! Mimic the sounds of the language. Don't mumble. Although most people feel embarrassed making strange sounds, the language will soon feel more familiar to you.
2. When called on in class, say something, even it it's wrong: you'll learn from it. If you need a moment to think, repeat the question. If you don't know the answer, say in your foreign language, "I don't know" or "help!"
3. Practice with a foreign student who wants your help to learn English or with another class member.
سلام-
پدر یکی از بازدید کننده های این وبلاگ و دوست خوب من ساناز یه عمل قلب داره.بیاین همه باهم براش دعا کنیم. بیاین دعا کنیم همه ی بیمارها شفا پیدا کنن.همه بیمار ها خوب بشن.به امید چنین روزی.
آسمان آبی عزیز:
به من هم حق بده.من فکر میکنین بیکارم.من نظر شما رو دیده بودم. و نظرات بقیه رو. ولی یه کمی سرم شلوعه. به خاطر همین فقط چند تا طلب که از قبل آماده کرده بودم اونا را گذاشتم.
من نزدیک دانشگاه علم و صنعت جایی رو سراغ ندارم که به شما توصیه کنم.
نظرم رو در مورد اون کتاب خواسته بودی خوب کتاب خیلی خوبیه.فقط همین رو میتونم بگم. اگه اونو خوب یاد بگیری تو امتحان آی ال تی اس شرکت کن.روی هر کتابی یعنی پشت جلد هر داستانی نوشته که این چه سطحیه.
طرز استفاده صحیح از نوار کاست( قابل توجه تمام زبان آموزان):
وقتی کتاب داستانی رو همراه با نوار کاست ان تهیه میکنید کتاب داستان را نباید باز کنیدو نباید بخوانید.اول نوار کاست آن را در دستگاه پخش خود قرار دهید. سه بار باید به آن گوش کنید. بار اول: تصر کنید به موسیقی گوش میدهید. بار دوم: این بار کمی با دقت گوش کنید.بار سوم: در عین گوش کردن سعی کنید به خاطر بیاورید در بار اول و دوم چه چیزهایی را متوجه شدید و چه چیزهایی را نه. آن مورد هایی را که نتوانسته بودید متوجه بشید سعی کنید در بار سون متوجه بشید.
و بعد از سه بار گوش فرا دادن به نوار کاست داستان مورد نظر بار چهارم کتاب را باز کرده وبخوانید. این بار هم دقت کنید چه مواردی را گوش کردن متوجه شدید و چه چیزهایی را نه. این راه به شما کمک میکند تا سطح استعداد شنوایی انگلیسی خود را دریابید.
Let’s Learn Slang
To cost an arm and a leg
Meaning: to cost a lot of money
Example:
It costs an arm and a leg to buy all these Christmas presents.
To be loaded
Meaning: to be rich
Example:
He works in the city and he is loaded.
To be broke
Meaning: to be poor
Example:
She’s always broke at the end of the month.
Bread and Honey
Meaning: Money
Example:
Let's drink with him - he's got bread. [This one has enjoyed very common usage]
To be skint:
Meaning: British slang to have no money
Example:
Can you lend me some money? I’m skint.
Beans:
Dosh: British. Money
Peanuts: Informal. Very little money
Megabucks: Plural noun a large amount of money.
Peggy Pink: some people just don't deserve to be loved (because they don't know it's worth.)
1 | - | hyphen |
2 | — | dash |
3 | ! | exclamation mark |
4 | # | sharp |
5 | & | ampersand |
6 | · | bullet |
7 | ( ) | (round) brackets; (round) parenthesis |
8 | * | asterisk |
9 | , | comma |
10 | . | 1 full stop 2 point |
11 | ... | ellipsis points; ellipsis dots |
12 | / | oblique; slash; |
13 | : | colon |
14 | ; | semi-colon |
15 | ? | question mark |
16 | [ ] | (square) brackets; (square) parenthesis |
17 | backslash | |
18 | __ | underline |
19 | ‘’ | quotation marks; inverted commas |
20 | † | dagger |
Please read it and give your opinion. This is what Peggy Pink thinks. What about you? Do you agree with her
This world is so cruel
For the girls and the boys
For the kids and the leaves
For the winners and the losers
For the lovers and the haters
But it is somehow beautiful
When your heart beats for another heart
When you share with, all the beauties
When you create with, dreams to follow
When you talk with what you cannot say to others
When you laugh with, all the funnies
When you cry with, all the sorrows
If you put a step forward,
You will be the one.
Peggy Pink
در ضمن یه چند روزی رو با خانواده مسافرت میرم.
دوست عزیز سیما که از من چند تا شعر کوتاه درخواست کرده بودید براتون خواستم ایمیل بفرستم ولی پیغام خطا داد.این هم چند تا شعر کوتاه
MAGGIE B
Lewis Carroll
(To Maggie Bowman.)
WRITTEN by Maggie B Bought by me:
A present to Maggie B Sent by me:
But who can Maggie be? Answered by me:
“She is she.”
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Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife
Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)
He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died.
Separation
W. S. Merwin (1973)
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color
You Fit into Me
Margaret Atwood (1971)
You fit into me
Like a hook into an eye
A fish hook
An open eye
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All Ears
MEANING: Listening carefully; keenly attentive.
Example:
I was all ears as Svet told me this exciting story.
Etymology:
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MEANING: This is an idiomatic way of saying ‘anywhere on earth’.
Example: This is the largest dinosaur exhibit anywhere. There’s nothing else like it under the sun."
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MEANING: A remark made when it’s time to go home or stop a certain job. Often said at the end of a workday. When someone leaves the office for the day, it’s common to say “Well, I guess I’ll call it a day
هر کس اصل داستان های نویسنده های بزرگ و قدیمی مثل شکسپیر رو لازم داره و میخواد؛ در قسمت نظرات آدرس ایمیل خودش رو بده و نام داستان و نام نویسنده رو بگه تا من براش داستان رو ایمیل بفرستم.
دوست عزیز علیرضا در پاسخ به سوال شما راه حل های ذیل را پیشنهاد میکنم:
1) ثبت نام در یکی از آموزشگاه زبان انگلیسی
2) استفاده از کتاب , سی دی, کاست
3) استفاده از شبکه گسترده اینترنت
من همیشه به هر کس که میخواد انگلیسی یاد بیگره توصیه میکنم در یکی از آموزشگاه های معتبر محل سکونتش ثبت نام کنه.معمولا بیشتر اشخاص میگن که
فرصت و وقت این کار رو ندارن. نمیدونم الان شما در چه سطحی هستی مقدماتی؟ متوسط؟...؟ کسی که در سطح مقدماتی قرار داره من به اون شخص توصیه میکنم حتما در یکی از آموزشگاه های معتبر محل سکونتش ثبت نام کنه. ولی کسی که مقدماتی رو پشت سر گذاشته اگه اراده کنه میتونه خودش مطالعه کنه و پیشرفت کنه. مهمترین و اصلی ترین چیزی که هر شخص برای یادگیری یک زبان خارجی نیاز داره فرهنگ لغت کامل است.سخت ترین کار شروع است. دشوارترین قسمت یادگیری حروف الفبا ست. شما وقتی حروف الفبا رو یاد گرفتین دشوارترین بخش رو پشت سر میگذارین.بعد از هر امکاناتی که دسترسی دارین استفاده کنین تا هر روز یه لغت جدید یاد بگیرین یه نکته گرامری تازه یه اصطلاح جدید و .... .
مطئن باشین انسان هر کاری بخواهد میتواند انجام بدهد.
اگه فقط اراده کنین و تلاش خیلی راحت میتونین به چیزهای زیادی برسین چیزهای زیادی رو یاد بگیرین از جمله زبان شیرین انگلیسی را.
من چند تا کتاب معرفی میکنم میتونین بدون شرکت در کلاسهای زبان خودتون مطالعه کنید و هر روز شاهد پیشرفت خودتون باشید.
برای یادگیری لغت پیشنهاد میکنم داستان های کوتاه بخوانید. به هر لغت جدیدی که بر میخورید در فرهنگ لغت معنی اون را پیدا کنید و اون لغت را یاد بگیرید.
برای تمرین لغت مجموعه زیر را توصیه میکنم:
1)Elementary Vocabulary written by: BJ Thomas (New Edition)
2) Intermediate Vocabulary written by: BJ Thomas (New Edition)
3) Advanced Vocabulary written by: BJ Thomas (New Edition)
این هم چند تا داستا ن کوتاه برای سطوح مختلف( من خودم گاهی اوقات داستان توی وبلاگ میگذارم):
Level 1:
1) The Elephant Man author: Tim Vicary
2) The Monkey’s Paw author: W.W Jacobs
3) Under the moon author: Rowena Akinyemi
4) The medal of Brigadier Gerard AUTHOR: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5) Surfer! Author: Paul Harvey
Level 2:
1) The sheep-Pig author: Dick King-Smith
2) The cay author: Theodore Taylor
3) The secret agent author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
4) Money to Burn author: John Scott
5) The Fox author: D.H Lawrence
Level 3:
1) Eraser author: Robert Tine
2) the fugitive author: J.M Dillard
Level4:
1) Far From the madding crowed author: Thomas Hardy
2) The mosquito Coast author: Paul Theroux
Level 5:
1) Web author: John Wyndham
2) The old Jest author: Jennifer Johnson
Level6:
1) The edge author: Dick fancies
2)
هر کس اصل داستان های نویسنده های بزرگ و قدیمی مثل شکسپیر رو لازم داره و میخواد؛ در قسمت نظرات آدرس ایمیل خودش رو بده و نام داستان و نام نویسنده رو بگه تا من براش داستان رو ایمیل بفرستم.
Aesop
One day the Hare laughed at the short feet and slow speed of the Tortoise. The Tortoise replied:
"You may be as fast as the wind, but I will beat you in a race!"
The Hare thought this idea was impossible and he agreed to the proposal. It was agreed that the Fox should choose the course and decide the end.
The day for the race came, and the Tortoise and Hare started together.
The Tortoise never stopped for a moment, walking slowly but steadily, right to the end of the course. The Hare ran fast and stopped to lie down for a rest. But he fell fast asleep. Eventually, he woke up and ran as fast as he could. But when he reached the end, he saw the Tortoise there already, sleeping comfortably after her effort.
A couple from Minneapolis decided to go to Florida for a long weekend to thaw out during one particularly icy cold winter. They both had jobs, and had difficulty coordinating their travel schedules. It was decided the husband would fly to Florida on a Thursday, and his wife would follow him the next day. Upon arriving as planned, the husband checked into the hotel. There he decided to open his laptop and send his wife an e-mail back in Minneapolis. However, he accidentally left off one letter in her address and sent the e-mail without noticing his error.
In the mean time:
In Houston, a widow had just returned from her husband's funeral. He was a minister of many years who had been "called home to glory" following a heart attack (died and gone to report in heaven). The widow checked her e-mail, expecting messages from family and friends. Upon reading the first message, she fainted and fell to the floor. The widow's son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor and saw the computer screen which read:
To: My loving Wife
From: Your Departed Husband
Subject: I've arrived!
I've just arrived and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then. Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.
P.S. Sure is hot down here.
Learn Some New Slang
Apple of her/his eye
MEANING: someone or something that one likes a lot
EXAMPLE:
the little girl is the apple of her grandfather’s eye.
Bark up the wrong tree
MEANING: choose the wrong course of action
EXAMPLE:
He is barking up the wrong tree. He accuses me of causing the computer
problem but I was away at the time.
Wolf
MEANING: a person who pretends to be good but really is bad
EXAMPLE:
Be careful of that man. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
1- C) to depict
2-b) could not have been conducting
3-A) in that
4- B) an advocate for children’s rights
5-D) by the teacher
6-A) neither
7-D) that beauty cannot be defined
8-A) does a( it should be: a)
9-B) cause (it should be caused)
10) To avoid (it should be: avoid)
11-B) has (it should be: it has)
12-b) as well the (it should be as well as the)
13-c) either (it should be both)
14-b) puzzling (it should be: puzzle)
دوستان عزیزی که به من ایمیل فرستاده اید ( از وبلاگ) تمام آنها به این باکس ایمیل من نمیروند همه آن ایمیل ها به فولدر بالک میروند. من به تمامی آنها جواب میدهم. نمیدانم آیا به فولدر بالک آنها میرود یا نه؟؟؟ فولدر بالک خودتان را چک کنید. شاید با آنجا برود و شما نبینید. در ضمن اگر کسی با من ایمیل فرستاده و من جواب نداده ام احتملا اشتباهی آن را دیلت کردم ببخشید!
سلام.این هم چند تا تست تافل.برای تستهایی که زیر انها خط کشیده شده
گزینه ای را که نادرست است را انتخاب کنید.جوابهای خودتون رو نگه دارین تا من دفعه بعد
که پاسخ ها را خواهم گذاشت شما با جوابهای خودتان مقایسه کنید.
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1) The Impressionists were interested in how… a given subject through the feelings of the artist.
(A) depicted
(B) could they depict
(C) to depict
(D) depicting
2) Experiments verifying aspects of the theory of special relatively ... until the advent of space travel.
(A) have been conducting
(B) could not have been conducting
(C) had conducted
(D) being conducted
3) Lotteries are games of chance … a player’s chance of winning, is governed by nothing more than random luck.
(A) in that
(B) that in
(C) that
(D) in
4)
(A) is the advocate for children’s rights
(B) an advocate for children’s rights
(C) that an advocate for children’s right
(D) the advocate for children’s right
5) The seating of students in a classroom is designed ... to minimize personality conflicts and to maximize student performance.
(A) the teacher of
(B) from the teacher
(C) the teacher and
(D) bye the teacher
6) Thanks to the use of saline water sources, desert areas can now be termed arable where once.... crops nor animals could survive.
(A) neither
(B) nor
(C) nothing but
(D) none other
7) Virtually all philosophers agree...in an objective way.
(A) beauty that are defined
(B) beauty they define
(C) defining beauty
(D) that beauty cannot be defined
8) Where does a river intersects another river, a city usually is formed.
9) How many dinosaurs initially survived the asteroid impact with the Earth, which ultimately cause the extinction of the species, is open to question.
10)Reptiles must always to avoid extremes of temperature if they are to maintain appropriate body heat.
11)An orangutan is similar to a human because has a nearly identical DNA pattern.
12)
13)It has often been observed that love songs are a curious mixture of either the bitter and the sweet.
14) The way in which Ice Ages occur remains a puzzling, for recent meteorological records can tell us little about the process.
Phrase Thesaurus (money) | Meanings |
Money makes the world go round |
money is the most important thing in life, money solves every problem |
Money doesn't grow on trees |
to earn money you have to work hard, you can not get free money |
Monkey business |
dubious activities, illegal business, fooling round, silly game |
Coin of the realm |
type of currency used by a particular country |
Blood money |
compensation paid by an offender( usually a murderer) or his kin group to the kin group of the victim. In many societies Blood money functions to prevent the continuation of hostilities in the form of a feud. some customs allow the injured party the choice of punishing the murder by blood vengeance or Blood money. |
A penny for your thoughts |
what are you thinking about |
Time is money |
time is worth money, time wasted is like wasting money |
The public purse |
public funds, national treasury |
The penny drops |
understand slowly, only comprehended after a period of time |
Cost an arm and a leg |
cost dearly, be very expensive |
As safe as the Bank of England |
safe and secure, well protected |
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth |
a person who will not have to try very hard in order to acquire material wealth |
Dead presidents |
presidents who are now deceased, paper money, cash in the form of bank notes (slang) |
A sugar daddy |
rich and older man who gives gifts and money to the younger woman he is wooing (informal) |
A pretty penny |
considerable amount of money, rather large amount of money |
Money talks |
money gets people's attention, money can be used to influence people |
In for a penny in for a pound |
there is nothing to loose, do not start something that you can't finish |
Penny wise, pound foolish |
capable of dealing with small things but unable to mange the large issues |
Quid pro quo |
one thing in exchange for another, something in return for something else |
Spend money like water |
waste money, squander money |
Pound of flesh |
A justified but disabling request |
Pin money |
small expenses, pocket money |
Money to burn |
extra money, surplus cash |
Hand to mouth |
having nothing to spare, precarious |
Dirt cheap |
extremely Inexpensive |
Filthy rich |
obscenely rich, so wealthy that one doesn't know what to do with the money |
In the money |
rich, successful, wealthy, |
Hard up |
poor, lacking money, under pressure, troubled |
A small fortune |
considerable sum of money, a lot of money |
Break the bank |
win everything in the fund (Roulette) |
A bad penny |
worthless coin |
Put a cork in it
Definition: Be quiet
Could you please put a cork in it?!
Tom, put a cork in it! I can't hear what Mary is saying
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Put down
Definition: criticize someone
Jack put him down and he hasn't been the same since.
Don't put me down
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Put someone away
Definition: put in prison
They put him away for twenty years.
Jason was put away for life in prison
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Put the finger on someone
Definition: identify someone
The victim put the finger on the criminal.
She put the finger on her boss for the crime
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Put the heat / screws on someone
Definition: pressure someone to do something
He's putting the heat on me to finish the report.
Janet's really putting the screws on her husband to get a new car.