What methods did you use to study English in 2015?

As the saying goes : English is the most simple tool, but it is the most important ability. We all know that learning English is important and we need to be diligent but that doesn’t mean we have to always sitting in the classroom and learn the difficult grammar.

I think English can be divided into four fields: speaking,listening,writing and reading. Below I will introduce the methods I use to study English this year.

Listening:

Here are the ways I use to improve my English listening ability.
1. Listening to English radio stations and find plenty of listening sources on the internet such as ICRT, BBC and so on.
2. Watching the English Channel on TV such as CNN, Discovery and so on.
3. Watching the English drama such as House of card, broke girls and so on. (With English subtitle)
4. Subscribe the English news website on Facebook such as Channel 4 news, CNN International news and so on. (By the way, you can see a lot of information from these two website that Taiwan news hardly report.)

5. Listening to music is another great and fun way of improving your grasp of a language.

Reading:

Here are the ways I use to improve my English reading ability.

1.Reading English novel, and once you found the word you don’t know just check in the English dictionary.(The reason I use English dictionary is because Chinese and English work in different way, you can’t use two different system in the same time that will make you confuse.)

2. Change the language on your social media or smartphone. (If you turn your Facebook, Twitter and smartphone settings to ‘English’ then you can continue to learn the language while you’re communicating with friends.)

Writing:

I have no idea about writing, I am very lazy , I seldom write, and I think writing is the worst part of my English ability.

Speaking:

Here are the ways I use to improve my English speaking ability.

1.Just seize the opportunity to talk to foreigner ,there are many exchange student in ASIA university and they are all very nice and friendly.

2.If you afraid to talk to foreigner just go to cram school, the teachers in cram school will force you to talk to them and that’s why you pay them money!

What worked or didn’t work for you?

I think my reading and listening are getting better than usual but my speaking and writing are still poor. Although both of my reading and listening get better it still not achieve my anticipation. If I have stronger willpower I can do better. For example: I will watch the Chinese subtitle sometime because drama is so dramatic that I can’t wait to see next.

What’s your English learning study plans for 2016?

I plan to surround myself in English. Maybe I will join English summer campus in 2016.Watching English Teacher Jon’ channel in YouTube every day.(He teach many dirty jokes in English.) Find a penpal in website and so on.THE MOST IMPORTANT　ＩＳ　ＴＯ HAVE STRONGE WILLPOWER.