English Coaching – Blogging to Connect

5 Ways to Gain more Accuracy in English

1. Listen to people speak the language.

Listen to the radio, watch TV, YouTube, movies, or just people around you who use it. Notice how it sounds – learn to listen. Imagine yourself imitating a phrase.

2. Listen to yourself – can you hear what you are saying?

After learning to listen to and imitate others, the most effective strategy for Accuracy is self-correction.

Most of my clients say they can’t self correct. OK. I’ll teach you. Write for 3 minutes about what you did yesterday. Now just correct the verbs. If you have any questions, look on www.wordreference.com for help.

See, you can correct yourself. All you need to do is focus on one element in the language. Don’t worry about the rest now. As a tennis coach will say, “watch the ball!”  In this case, the ball is the verb. Later the ball can be prepositions, or irregular plurals or phrasal verbs. Just focus on one thing. Then you can self correct.

3. Remember, there are different concept in another language.

“PEOPLE” “ARE”… we are individualists – as opposed to collectivists

4. Ask yourself questions – what is one thing you would like a clear understanding of?

5. learn to correct yourself – self correction is the best way i know to accuracy

and as always it always help to notice if you are enjoying this process. in the long run, it leads to more connection