LEARNING ENGLISH BY DOING OUR HOBBIES

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There are many ways to improve our skill in English. Learning English doesn't always mean reading a big book, memorizing all vocabularies in dictionary or by spending all night to study and remembering the tenses, structure, grammar, etc. It's true that learning English can be something funny, enjoyable and something we are waiting for ! We can start our learning program in English by doing our hobby, whatever it is (reading, watching movies, listening music, writing, etc). People say, that hobbies in watching movies and listening music don't give any benefit at all. We could ignore what they say, because actually those things are very useful in improving our English skill. Of course as our basic here, the movie and music are in English. Then, how it works? Indirectly, by listening our favorite music we are about to remembering and memorize the song. Here, we can say that we are improving our listening skill. We can get the improvement by watching English movies as well, which can be a great method in learning English. By this, we can get many vocabularies that is useful in daily activities which is different from vocabularies we got by reading book. We could know in which condition we have to use a kind of words or phrase (diction) and, the custom as well, which is important enough. We are learning English in order to be master in English, fluent in speaking English, or at least can speak in English which all have a meaning ”able to communicate in English”. We are able to communicate English if we are able to make such a conversation and dialog with native speakers well, then. And we will able to create a good conversation while we know and understand their culture and custom, which can be gotten by watching English movies. Besides, by reading the translation text, we can learn about the structure of the sentences as well, which could be our problem in English. There are more, the things we can learn by doing our hobbies. It is our hobbies, the things we like to do, so we must be do it in happiness, no pressure, which is important and required in learning process. It will be easier to learn something we like it so to learn English easier, we have to like and love English first, we have to like and miss the learning process which is the thing make us like to learn English. Remember, to be master in English you have to love it first. Then, find your favorite way in learning English. Again, there are more things we can learn by doing our hobbies. So, find out your self! (article sent by: fsiti11@yahoo.com)