Frequently asked questions on how to learn English and become fluent:
How do I learn English and become fluent through practicing vocabulary?
To learn English and become fluent follow these steps: read topics you are familiar with. Let me put this way: you love much Sport than Arts, read sport-related content. You love much arts than Sport, read Arts-related content.
If the context can’t help you find the meaning of a word, check a dictionary and then practice lhe use so that you can be fluent on it.
2. How Can I Learn the Spelling of English Vocabulary Through Sounds?
There are several ways you can learn vocabulary and become fluent in English:
- Read slowly, sound by sound, the word you want to learn the spelling.
- Be focused on the sequence of the letters that make up the word.
- While doing that, shift your eyes, time to time from the word to check if you can picture the sequence in your mind.
- If you can picture the whole sequence in your mind, congratulation. You’ve learnt the spelling.
3. What Can I do to learn English Pronunciation and become fluent?
Use listening resources like audiobooks, learning apps and others, to enhance your listening skills as a second language learner.
Take advantage of “dead time” listening to English from these power tools.
Here are 2 things to consider before practicing listening:
- Make sure that the topic you are going to listen is familiar for you.
- The language of the content will be accessible for you to understand.
If you miss this, everything you do about the listening will be useless and you won’t learn and become fluent in English.
4. Why do I fail to say English words naturally? Why the words don’t come out smoothly?
Other thing you need to do to learn English and become fluent is to train your speech organs – Tongue, Teeth, Lips, larynx, Palate to enable them produce English sound patterns.
To do that:
- Split into sounds the words you find difficult to say .Practice one sound at a time, and then the whole word.
- Keep doing the exercise until you feel comfortable saying the words.
5. What else can I do to achieve fluency quickly?
Use language learning Apps like Duolongo to practice speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Listen to BBC Language Learning programes like https://www.youtube.com/user/bbclearningenglish,
Use language learning tools like flash cards and practice vocabulary and tenses. By doing this and other practices you will learn English and become fluent.