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субота, 4 грудня 2021 р.
четвер, 11 листопада 2021 р.
10 Reasons Why Learning English
Is the Best Decision You Ever Made
1. You will discover that English is
easy to learn
2. You can find more job opportunities
3. You can become better educated
4. You can easily travel anywhere in the
world
5. You will know the global language
6. You will learn about culture
7. You can improve your understanding of
science
8. You can date more people
9. You can improve your confidence
10. You will exercise your brain
середа, 16 серпня 2017 р.
English as a powerful means of international communication
Every day we can see that it is
very important to know foreign languages. The Internet and satellite TV enable
us to get information from all over the world. We are able to get education or
a job in any country of the world. But we all know that we have to know the
language of the country we want to study or work in.
English is the world's first
truly universal language. Today there are more than 1.5 billion English
speakers in the world. At any station or airport in the world we can find
instructions in English. Pilots and air traffic controllers, sailors speak
English at all international airports and ports.
More than 80
percent of information of any kind (scientific, commercial, personal) is stored
and exchanged in English. Business and trade can't exist now without
English. It is the official language of international aid organizations such as
OXFAM and Save the Children Fund as well as of UNESCO, NATO and the
United Nations.
If we listen to the talk of young
people we'll hear words like 'rap music', 'bodybuilding', 'windsurfing',
'computer hacker' and others. English has become a part of youth culture all
over the world and in Russia too.
If we want to feel ourselves
comfortable in our modern world we must know English. But it's not the limit.
The knowledge of one foreign language extends our mind more than twice. So
let's not put limits on our minds and souls and study more foreign languages.
вівторок, 9 травня 2017 р.
How To Overcome Your Fear Of Speaking English
They say that practice makes perfect. Nowhere is this more pertinent than when learning to speak a new language. But one of many people’s greatest stumbling blocks to achieving fluency in English is their fear of failure.
Fear of failure has stopped many a great project in its tracks, business from being created or marriage vows exchanged. Yet, just as Honoré de Balzac famously said, our greatest fears lie in anticipation. So if getting choked up and tongue-tied is getting in your way, check out these tips to help overcome your fear of speaking English.
1. It’s Never As Bad As You Imagine
You know those people who stand up in front of the cameras, give conferences and speak confidently in another language? Here’s a little secret for you. They all experience fear of failing at some point or another (maybe even all the time). No one was born speaking any language, much less fluent in more than one.
If you’re learning English as a young adult, or even later in life, then remember you’re not the only one. Fear of speaking is normal. It’s how you overcome that fear that will transform you from an English language learner to an English language speaker.
2. Everyone Makes Mistakes. And Mistakes Are Useful!
No one likes making mistakes. Whether you’re terrified of getting your pronunciation wrong, or worried about when to use the present perfect; remember that making mistakes is inevitable. It’s natural and the best way to learn. Whatever your native language, you’ve probably heard your own people speaking it incorrectly or stumbling over spelling.
There are many stages towards achieving language fluency and your goal at first should be to be understood. Embrace your mistakes, learn from them and get better along the way.
3. Practice Every Moment Possible
The only way to master any skill, from your diphthongs to your phrasal verbs is by practicing them regularly. The more often you speak English and get used to speaking English, the easier and more natural it will become.
If you’re not lucky enough to study English in an English speaking country, you can make use of English language radio, podcasts and television. Try to find an English speaker in your home town or city. If there isn’t anyone to practice with locally, then read, write, or find people online who want to trade.
4. Learn To Laugh At Yourself
Let’s be honest, approach anything in life with a little bit of humor and it’s suddenly a much more enjoyable task. From housework to studying for exams; learn to laugh at yourself and not only will you become a better student, but you’ll bemore likeable, approachable and encourage further conversation.
неділя, 8 січня 2017 р.
15 interesting facts about the English language
In your English classes you no doubt learn interesting things but I’m sure you haven’t heard all of these facts before:
1. ‘E’ is the most commonly used letter in the English language. In fact, as many as one in eight of all the letters written in English is ‘e’.
2. More English words begin with the letter ‘S’ than any other letter of the alphabet.
3. ‘I am.’ is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
4. The longest English word that can be spelled without repeating any letters is ‘uncopyrightable’.
5. The following sentence contains seven different spellings of the sound “ee”: ‘He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas’.
6. Do you know what is special about the following sentence? ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. This type of sentence is called a ‘pangram’ as it uses every letter in the English language.
7. The longest word in English has 45 letters: ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’! It is a type of lung disease caused by inhaling ash and sand dust.
8. There is no word in the English language that rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
9. ‘Queueing’ is the only word with five consecutive vowels (five vowels in a row). This is a great word to use when you play hangman!
10. There are nine different ways to pronounce ‘ough’ in English. This sentence contains all of them: ‘A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.’
11. Due to a printing error, there was a word in the English dictionary from 1932 to 1940 which didn’t have a meaning. The word was ‘Dord’ and it became known as ‘ghost word’.
12. ‘Pronunciation’ is the word which is most mispronounced in the English language!
13. English is the official language of the sky! It doesn’t matter which country they are from, all pilots speak in English on international flights.
14.The most difficult tongue twister in the English language is “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick”. Why not try it out on your friends and see if any of them can say it without making a mistake?
15. Approximately one new word is added to the English language every two hours and around 4,000 new words are added to the English dictionary every year.
вівторок, 3 січня 2017 р.
неділя, 6 листопада 2016 р.
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Ten Best Proverbs About Language Learning
To learn a language is to have one more window from
which to look at the world. –Chinese proverb
Those who know many languages live as many lives as
the languages they know. ‒Czech proverb
One who speaks only one language is one person, but
one who speaks two languages is two people. ‒Turkish Proverb
A new language is a new life. –Persian Proverb
Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war. –Arab
Proverb
With a language, you can go to Rome . –Quebec
Proverb
If
you want people to understand you, speak their language. –African Proverb
Love
has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect. –Russian
proverb
Learn
a new language and get a new soul. –Czech Proverb
The best time to learn a language was 20 years ago.
The second best time is now. –Lingholic
неділя, 2 жовтня 2016 р.
Quotes About Languages
“England and America are two
countries separated by the same language.”
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Bernard Shaw
“Those
who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a
beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential
identity of the two tongues.”
-Ambrose Bierce
-Ambrose Bierce
Words are the leaves of the
tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their
place.
- John French
- John French
Any time you think some other
language is strange, remember that yours is just as strange, you're just used
to it.
- Linguistic Mystic
- Linguistic Mystic
Own only what you can carry
with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your
travel bag.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Kindness is the language
which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
If you talk to a man in a
language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his
language, that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
- Nelson Mandela
Absolutely nothing is so
important for a nation's culture as its language.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Language is the most massive
and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious
generation.
- Edward Sapir
- Edward Sapir
I am sorry when any language
is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
- Dr Johnson
- Dr Johnson
Americans who travel abroad
for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress
that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in
foreign languages.
- Dave Barry
- Dave Barry
When you can speak another
language you go from being a person in an adult's body, pointing at things like
a child, to being able to communicate with people like an adult again.
- Eddie Izzard
- Eddie Izzard
The limits of my language
means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
English is a funny language;
that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the
parkway. ~Author Unknown
Language is the dress of
thought. ~Samuel Johnson
Language is the means of
getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. ~Mark Amidon
A different language is a
different vision of life. ~Federico Fellini
Learn a new language and get
a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
пʼятниця, 30 вересня 2016 р.
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