The Best Way to Learn English Language

 The best way to learn English language is by making English as your first language. Do not translate yourself. All the current method of learning English language is flawed. You have to learn English in a way that you enjoy.

 

No mention of English grammar. No mention of tenses. You have to learn the language naturally. First you will have to know as at what level your English language is.

 

From 1 to 100 scores, How much score do you give to your ability of speaking/writing/thinking in English language? I give myself 75. Even I am not perfect in English language.

 

And nobody is fluent in English language. Everyone have their limitations And that is perfectly fine. As long as people understand us by our writing/speaking, It’s perfectly fine that in the beginning you don’t pay that much attention to grammar (or you eventually you will get the  correct grammar), but you pay attention in discovering news words in English and using it in your everyday lifestyle.

 

Incorporating those words in your own life is important. So watching English movies, listening to English music and reading English books is necessary. Movies, Music and Manuscripts (Books). Using these tools,  you will articulate smoothly and gracefully.

 

Make English language as your first language. Think in English language. Babies never learn grammar. They just blabber. In later stages, they are able to construct sentences automatically.

 

This natural way of learning makes you one with the language. It is natural and effortless. Give yourself 3 months or 6 months. In that period you will only use one language. That is English language. Immerse yourself in that language like you immerse yourself in swimming pool to learn swimming.

 

90 percent of the language learning happens silently in your brain, when you are thinking. You are not going to think in your native language. You will have to stop that for first 3 to 6 months. Later when you establish your fluency, you can smoothly transition between multiple languages.

 

This book is for everyone who wants to learn English language from scratch and also for people who want to grow their skills in English language.

 

Imagine every word that I type into a picture. A colorful picture. And it stays with you in your memory. So automatically when you get into that situation, those words will come out of your mouth automatically.

 

You will be asking a question as when I have to start learning English language. You already started when you grabbed this book. And give yourself 3 to 6 months.

 

Go in any old book stores or on streets. You can buy novels for Rs.20 to Rs. 200, if you are in mumbai, India. Just get hold of any novels. Go directly in the middle of the book and read a paragraph. If you can understand 40 percent of the contents, then you can buy that book.

 

Always read a story books because it contains lot of action words which you will need. It is not necessary that you have to start reading a book from the beginning. You can start in the middle and if you really like it then you will be curious as what happened in the beginning. Then you can take yourself at the beginning of the book.

 

You can listen to any trance music while reading a book so that you are not disturbed.

 

As you glide along the words in the novels, you will have to imagine each word into a vivid pictures or video clips in your brain. So that you are able to enjoy the novel and also grow in your English vocabulary.

 

While reading if you come across words which you are not familiar with, don’t right away look into the dictionary. Just meditate on that word, and try to guess the meaning of the word from the context of the story. It’s ok if you are completely wrong. But this is a very fruitful exercise.

 

If you are using a pen and paper, to jot down your ideas in this new language (English), it’s ok to make mistakes and just move along the line that you have to express your own thoughts and instantly grab onto the words that, so far, and write it down. It’s ok if it is gibberish.

 

If you are using your mobile phones or computers, then please disable the autocorrection feature. Auto correction features makes us stupider. It makes us less smart. Without using auto correction you will learn to spell any words. It’s ok to misspell certain words. And then latter you correct yourself when you are learning the English Language.

 

We do not need artificial intervention while we are writing. It has to come from you and only you, while writing. While speaking ofcourse it is coming from you.

 

This is the partial list of movies that you can watch on netflix or Amazon Prime or any other movie account to improve your English Language:

 

Fight Club, 1408, We’re the Millers, True Story, Triangle, Coherence, Edge of Tomorrow, Source Code, District 9, Minority Report, The Butterful Effect 1/2/3, Limitless, Unbreakable, The Conjuring

Erin Brockovich, GoodFellas, Replicas, The call, Derren Brown: Sacrifice,

 

The Matrix, Gladiator, The Silence of the Lambs, The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King, The Dark Knight, Inception, Pulp Fiction, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption,  Saving Private Ryan, Matilda, Casper, Honey, I shrunk the Kids, Honey, I blew up the kids, The Usual Suspects, Interstellar,

 

Derren Brown: The Push, Psych, Pandemic: How to Prevent an outbreak, Girl on the Third floor, The Platform, Outbreak, Deep Impact, Contagion, American Made, The First Wives Club, Life as we know it, Revenge, Police Academy, The Island, Apollo 18, Escape from Alcatraz, The Next Three Days, Mirage, The Gambler, The score, Uncut Gems, The Departed, In the shadow of the Moon, Wedding crashers, What a girl Wants, I feel Pretty, War of the Worlds

 

Europa Report, The Decline, The Wandering Earth, The Prestige, How it Ends, Predestination, 21, Scary Movie 1/2/3/4/5, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The Truman Show, Ex Machina, Gravity, Her, Black Swan, Slumdog Millionaire, Avatar, Deadpool, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The ring, The Da Vinci Code, Now You see me, Travelers (TV Series), Final destination, Pandorium, Parasite, Ultraviolet, clue, cube 1/2/3, Friends (TV Series), The Big Bang Theory (TV Series),

 

The Others, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Identity, Home alone 1/2/3/4/5, The Mist, Cloverfield,

 

These are just few of the movies you can watch to improve your English Language.

 

While watching imagine that you are a character in that movie. And then you can clinge onto the words they say which will be helpful in your English Learning adventure.

 

 Always explain a same situation in different words. Rephrase yourself so that you improve your vocabulary. For example. I am walking towards this car, I am slowly crawling towards this car. I am strolling towards this car. I am approaching towards this car.

 

You can decorate your experience in plenty of different words.

 

Take any topic and speak on it. It doesn’t matter matter how it pans out. Try your best to speak on a given topic. It is ok if it is bizarre/weird/uncanny.

 

Make a point that everyday you learn new English words from novels that you read or movies that you watch or music that you hear.

 

Keep loading up your vocabulary.

 

Use thesaurus, and find words with similar meanings.

 

For example, for “Beautiful” in thesaurus, the words are following:

 

Beauty gorgeous pretty exquisite lovely splendid pleasant handsome picturesque graceful glorious scenic bonny elegant fair wonderful ravishing stunning magnificient delightful replendent dishy fantastic fabulous attractive splendiferous……

 

So there are similar/related/synonymous words for every word. But equally respect each words. They are unique and they have their own special place while expressing something.

 

Sentence construction. We have to pay attention

 

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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain

Treatise on Poisons by Sir Robert Christison

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

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Il Principe. English by Niccolò Machiavelli

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The Ambassador's Pet by Alexander Blade

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Anthem by Ayn Rand

A Japanese Boy by Shigemi Shiukichi

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

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The Odyssey by Homer

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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (160)

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I'll See You In My Dreams by William Campbell Gault

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Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur. English by Maurice Leblanc

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Personal Relation in Industry by Jr. John D. Rockefeller

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

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We can start with any public domain book. We can start with the “The Smoky God (A Voyage to the Inner World)” by Wills George Emerson. My favourite. “Journey to the center of the Earth” by Jules Verne is another book you have to check

 

Sentence construction is very important. There is always a subject, a verb and an object. “The wall fell on me”. “The Wall” is the subject. “fell on” is a verb. And “me” is the object. So there is always a subject, a verb and an object. Another example, “He smashed me”. “He” is  a subject, “smashed” is verb, and “me” is the object. This is the simplest sentence you can make.

 

Object can be invisible. For example “He was running”. Here “He” is the subject, and “was running” is the verb. There is no object here. “He was running on the platform”. In this case “On the platform is the object”

When you are walking on the street, describe whatever you see with your eyes. Make a vivid description of everything. You can also write on or you can just say.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are walking along and you sit somewhere. Look around and then you start describing things that you see in your head. “There is a huge pink tree. Then there is greenery everywhere. Then I can see the white clouds in the blue sky.”

 

Describe in your own words. Try harder. Everytime you describe it, add more words and play with it. “I see pink leaves and trunk of the tree is brown. Sky is filled with clouds. There are mountains on the horizon. There are array of mountains in the horizon.” Use your own unique words to describe the picture. Say it or write it down. Whichever method you fill comfortable with. You can use both the methods. That is by saying it and then writing it down and rephrasing it everytime adding new words.

 

Whatever you see, describe it as if you are telling someone as what you see.

 

“I am at the railway station. There are lot of people here. It is very noisy. I am walking fast. I am feeling hungry right now. I will go and have some street food. I can see one train coming towards the station. It is slowing down. There are people who have their headphones in their ears and they must be listening to songs. I can see a family waiting for the train to come. Their two kids are playing with balloons.” This is an example as how you are going to describe everything in English language

 

So this is something that you have to incorporate in your lifestyle for first 6 months. You have to describe any damn thing that you see in lot of words. With this your brain will churn out new words. It will know which word to use when describing certain things. You keep your native language as a secondary language. Just immerse yourself in English language for six months.

 

You can also call toll free numbers and ask for the assistance in English. With that, you will be able to practice.

 

You will have to learn English language in real world and not in a classroom. Pick few friends of yours who speak only in English. Always have few people in your lives, who only speak in English language, this will boost your confidence and talking in English becomes very smooth.

 

You can play and sing English songs loudly in your room. This helps pronouncing the worlds correctly in a fun way. A song always has a tune/melody. So Singing songs loudly really opens you up. And it becomes easier for you to glide through the English words. Your vocal chords gets warmed up. You can roll your “r”s and bite your “v”s.

 

You need to have your favourite English songs. It is very necessary to listen to English songs and then sing along. This will really help you in learning English language.

 

Start from by describing yourself. Face yourself in the mirror and then give interview to yourself. It can be funny, creative, and informative. Talk to yourself in the mirror. Lock your room. And face right now in the mirror and talk to yourself in English language. It’s ok, initially it will be hard. But it is fine. Remember English language is not anyone’s property that you have to take permission to learn it. English language is open source. Every person has a right to learn this language.

 

Talk about yourself. Write it down. Or you can also record your voice as how you sound. But it is not necessary that you have to record everything. Target should be to get better drop by drop. Slowly and gradually we have to reach at that level where you can seamlessly describe/talk about anything. We have to reach that level.

 

All these methods you apply for the first 6 months or 3 months (fast learners), you will be proud of yourself that you learned the language this way which is more natural and more closer to your heart.

 

You can describe every feeling, every moment, your ideas in English language. English language is not just for business communication. It is also for casual talks. We are taking nothing away from your native language. We respect your native language also.

But your desire to learn English language must be fulfilled. So, this is the starting point. And you have to act right away.

 

l Immerse yourself in English language for first 6 months

l Think only and only in English all the time during this period

l As you get better, start writing and constructing sentences

l Construct long sentences for fun

l Keep adding adverbs, verbs, adjectives of your choice

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