Learning English

[Arlekino]

Hello all
Would anybody can advice me youtube, or others videos channels how to speak better and write in English. I am really in trouble with this, or my laziness or I am getting older I can't learn it so good. I using BBC website which is good it helps but I am still got grammar questions test at least 3 wrongs. I am ok with reading skills and understandings from other speakers of English, but my writing grammar and my speaking skills are not good at all.

Many thanks.

[xxxxxx666666]

Here are some YouTube channels that may help:

https://www.youtube.com/user/learnexmumbai

https://www.youtube.com/user/SlowEasyEnglish

https://www.youtube.com/user/EnglishLessons4U


And there are many more, why don't you use google.com ,or Bling , or whatever web search engine of your choice to search for "english lessons"? :)

Good luck, and you can do it!!!!!!:laugh:

[Arlekino]

Thanks well I opened this treat because is not only for me, I am sure some forum members got same problems like me and can't express too much in this forum, because luck of English skills. Thanks for sharing this link I will deficiently do my best to learn it.

[Alan OldStudent]

Hello all
Would anybody can advice me youtube, or others videos channels how to speak better and write in English. I am really in trouble with this, or my laziness or I am getting older I can't learn it so good. I using BBC website which is good it helps but I am still got grammar questions test at least 3 wrongs. I am ok with reading skills and understandings from other speakers of English, but my writing grammar and my speaking skills are not good at all.

Many thanks.

My wife (who is now deceased) taught English, French, and Spanish literature and had her degrees from a UK university. She said that the best way of getting grammar, punctuation, and so on was to read really good literature aloud. When choosing writers to study for a model, bear in mind that there are important differences in punctuation between Standard American and British English. There are also a few usage and grammatical differences, but these are not as pronounced. For example, "gotten" is not used in BE.

As you live in the UK, try to concentrate on British authors. Of course, there are masters of Canadian, American, Australian, South African, and Indian English who are worth reading, and their patterns of usage may differ somewhat than British authors.

All forms of English writing traditions go for clarity. I read good literature aloud at times. I nearly always read my own writing aloud if I am composing something very formal or serious. If I am stumbling too much when reading aloud a draft of something I'm writing, then I rewrite. I suggest you do the same.

With all that in mind, I would suggest reading a lot of really good books aloud, even recording and listening. Concentrate on reading modern classics, as English has changed over the course of the last 100 years.

John Mortimer is very good for this. His Rumpole of the Bailey series are very entertaining books. He also wrote an interesting autobiography, "A Piece of the Wreckage." Also, read John le Carré. Despite his French-sounding name, he is a master of British English. I also recommend reading Colleen McCullough's books. She is Australian, but Australian English is very much like BE. She wrote a series of historical novels on late Republican Rome, and I loved "Tim," "An Indecent Obsession," and "The Ladies of Millalonoghi." Her most famous work is "The Thorn Birds."

Read good stuff out loud. Read your own writing out loud. Remember that the rules of grammar, usage, and punctuation are an attempt to describe how the best speakers and writers of an officially-recognized tongue use the language, and those patterns sink in by osmosis if you immerse yourself in good writing.

Regards,

Alan OldStudent
The unexamined life is not worth living--Socrates

[Diirez]

You are speaking English very well. That's fantastic! One website that helped me with French was livemocha.com, it creates a community of people trying to learn a language, so it should help you communicate with native speakers.

[Queen Mab]

If your location is in England, just keep talking to people. There's no better way to learn a language than to use it everday.