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Advice for language learners General warning: what follows may or may not apply to you. It's based on what linguistics knows about people in general (but any general advice will be ludicrously inappropriate for some people) and on my own experience (but you're not the same as me). If you have another way of learning that works, more power to you. Given the discussion so far, the prospects for language learning may seem pretty bleak. It seems that you'll only learn a language if you really need to; but the fact that you haven't done so already is a pretty good indication that you don't really need to. How to break out of this paradox? At the least, try to make the facts of language learning work for you, not against you. Exposure to the language, for instance, works in your favor. So create exposure. * Read books in the target language. * Better yet, read comics and magazines. (They're easier, more colloquial, and easier to incorporate into your weekly routine.) * Buy music that's sung in it; play it while you're doing other things. * Read websites and participate in newsgroups that use it. * Play language tapes in your car. If you have none, make some for yourself. * Hang out in the neighborhood where they speak it. * Try it out with anyone you know who speaks it. If necessary, go make new friends. * Seek out opportunities to work using the language. * Babysit a child, or hire a sitter, who speaks the language. * Take notes in your classes or at meetings in the language. * Marry a speaker of the language. (Warning: marry someone patient: some people want you to know their language-- they don't want to teach it. Also, this strategy is tricky for multiple languages.) Taking a class can be effective, partly for the instruction, but also because you can meet others who are learning the language, and because, psychologically, classes may be needed to make us give the subject matter time and attention. Self-study is too eas

If you want to learn how to learn English vocabulary, you need to know which words to learn.\nIf you are a teacher, you also need to know which words your students need to learn.\nCambridge English Lexicon was first published in 1980, and the fifth printing was in 1991. There might have been further printings, but it seems to be out of print now.\nTHE GOOD NEWS is that Amazon does have a few second hand copies available at very cheap prices, so get in quick if you want to buy one of these rare gems!

The Cambridge English Lexicon is a great book to help teachers and students identify useful English vocabulary to learn.

Learning to speak English is just as important as reading and writing. Get some tips here on how to learn to speak English.

A study skills web page to help EFL students learn to speak english

"Hello students, We want to tell you something about News in Levels. We write news in three levels of English. You can learn English very fast when you use News in Levels every day. How? It is simple. We repeat the same words in one level again and again. So, when you read and listen to our news every day, after 2 or 3 or 4 months, you will understand all the words in one level. Then it is time for you to go one level higher and do the same. After one year, you can understand people who speak English and you can know 3000 most important words in English. At News in Levels, you can learn English naturally and fast."

f you want to know how to learn English verbs with an iPod, you are in the right place. Rory Ryder has published a book called "101 English Verbs for your iPod", and it is FANTASTIC!

A fantastic resource that can be used on iPod or computer to learn 101 English verbs in 6 tenses. All color coded and fun videos to watch.

New English File Elementary book is a great way to learn English

A review of New English File Elementary.

New English File Advanced is a very good book to help you learn English

A book review of New English File Advanced

Here is a great way to learn English Verbs on your iPod. Apps are also now available.

Book review of how to learn ESL using headway pre-intermediate

Students of foreign languages, often English and tourists often purchase electronic translators to help them communicate. This article gives the low-down on buying an electronic translator

Karaoke is the best way to learn / practice English. Also a great way to open/close a lesson and engage students. All these karaoke videos can be found in much better quality and with more control (slow the tempo) at EFL Classroom 2.0 Just click TEACH - Karaoke and learn how to download the player and even make your own Karaoke songs/files!

Many language students like to use electronic translators. I teach English and over the years I have watched them grow in popularity. Students love them, there is no doubt about that. Teachers are not so united. Some think they are great, and others hate them. For me, it has taken some time to befriend them, and work out how to take advantage of them in the classroom.

nternational Express Elementary consists of a Teacher Resource Book, a Student Book with Pocket Book and cassette, and finally a Student Workbook and cassette. Therefore there is a lot of material and information contained in this package, and makes a valuable contribution to elementary level education for adult learners who are trying to keep pace with modern communication methods.

International Express - A book review.

Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. - It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus! - Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists. - The online dictionary is available wherever there's an internet connection. - No membership required, it's free.

Take a test to learn how many words you know

An interactive chart that you can use to show how any word is pronounced by clicking the individual symbols. You can select between the British and American vowls.