English is one of the biggest problem in my life. I've been studying this for more than 10 years but I haven't been fluent yet. So what's the problem? the problem is ME for lack of motivation. confidence, and willingness to study harder to be fluent. Until I was in the last semester of college. Noticing that english is very important, I planned to look for a great method for learning english which could inspiring me, motivating me to become fluent.
With the strong will in my heart, I went to Kediri, East Java to head to a very famous english learning village called Kampung Inggris. I've been there for 1,5 months. Making friends, learning about new things, grammar, prcticing speaking are some of what I got there. So, after 1,5 months do I become fluent english speaker. The answer is obviously not. Why? because the time when I came back from Kampung Inggris is the beginning of my learning process.
I got many great method from my teachers there. Thanks to mr Fuddin, ms Ratna, ms Tika, mr Abdul, and mr Andre. I got a lot of help to learn english from them especially from ms Tika and mr Abdul for speaking skill. On the last day there before I went home, mr Abdul gave some great method to learn english anywhere anytime. ms Tika gave some information about how to speak like native, the pronounciation, stressing word, idiom, and many more.
By having those method in my head, I began to learn english with better method, BY LISTENING. I know about many podcaster like AJ HOGE from effortless english, LINDSAY and GABY from all ears english, LUKE from teacher luke, and ENGVID. By listening to native speaker everyday, I could understand them a little by little and gain more confidence to speak and connect with others in english. Plus, making new friends from abroad through this is a great bonus.
In one podcast I heard, the podcaster mention that language students have to think in english and think that they are english speaker not english learner to go to the next level. They should join some forum that's interesting to them like automobile, nature, sport in english to learn more real english not with joining english study forum. Well, english study forum is crucial for beginner level but if the students are in intermediet or in advance, joining the forum that they like is more promising.
Making new friends and deciding the best method to learn for myself are just several abilities that I got by learning english. I have more, learning about live. Knowing great sites like Zenhabit and Ted.com is a step for me to know more about life, to deciding life not to be decided by life, to not procastinate, to let go, to restrain self, and more.
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