LEARN ENGLISH WITH VIDEOGAMES, PART 1

Hello guys , how you doing ?

I hope you are making progress following my advices , today I will talking about one other fun way to learn english, which I think is not enough argued , at least not how it deserves. You should know that among all my methods for learn english , my favourite is play Videogames. I bet now , you are thinking " what the hell you are talking about " ? or " how I could learn english by Videogame ? " Ok, let me explain , first and foremost if you not have read my post about movies , I suggest you to do it , because almost work at the same way , ( read here ), then you can use also Videogame for train your listening skills. If you like play videogame and you want improve your english , you are lucky , it's not important with which console you play , sony playstation , microsoft xbox or ever Personal Computer , doesn't matter , even you could use a little device like a phone or a portable console, albeit in my

TALK WITH NATIVE ENGLISH PEOPLE BY SKYPE

Ok , with these tricks I was able to write and read , furthermore also my listening skill was well trained by movies , indeed , but I lacked of a  good conversation ability , unfortunately the fact of living in a small city didn't help me whatsoever , because there weren't  any english people whereby   I could talk,  except in the summer season where in some near towns I was able to engage with some tourist.
So, I had to find some solutions , talk alone was no pleasant , so I started to rec my voice with my phone and make video record with my laptop  which was good for awhile but  so boring after some time. Was frustating for me untill I discovered skype , at the beginning I used it only for chatting , I had add many native english speaker by skype community and also from various language exchange websites.

WHAT ABOUT IMPROVE ENGLISH WITH MOVIES ?

I remember of never liked  listening podcast or audio books , sure , I hate it , because first and foremost are boring , second , you learn to listen a not natural conversation , rather a robotic one , a kind of conversation that you never will meet in real life , it's useless , don't waste your time with this, maybe could have some worth for the beginner , but after you have pass this stage , you need something of more natural.
People in real life talk in different way , faster , use slang and something shorten words and phrases, so probably you are unable to understand them if all of what you listened  was only audiobooks and podcast, I chose to find a more fun and usefull way for improve my listening skills.
Always I'm been a very appassionate about american movies and since I started to watching it in original language rather that in Italian language my listening skill is improve a lot but in the beginning you need to use subtitle , you can divide it in three steps :

1  Watching eng movies  with subtitle  in your language

2  Watching eng movies  with  eng subtitle

3  Watching eng movies without subtitle

I have to say that worked very well for me and learned many kind of slang currently used in real conversation nowdays, right now I can follow a british movies without any problem , but still I need of subtitle with american movies , because american talk very fast and shorten some sentences, sometimes is hard to catch the words, I think a person should be at a very hight level in order to understand at 100% hollywood movies without any sub , but is my goal.
There aren't only movies , you can do the same thing with your favourite sitcom,fiction or show.
Another fun way to learn....

SEE ALSO  :  THE AMERICAN ACCENT

                                                       

LET FACEBOOK HELP YOUR ENGLISH

Some years ago I realized how too much time I was been spending with Facebook, so I thought ,
why don't take advantage of all this time for learn english ? After I had set the language of my Facebook in english , I sent a lot of friendship request to many native english speaker , added people from Miami , San Francisco,  London , Melbourne ,from everywhere, they were all people that never I had know before , anyway most people accepted my request , was great because my timeline on my FB started to be full of native speaker who everyday posted something or shared some video about their city , of course all in english, I daily sent message at them and I was used to comment their posts, so , at least my time on facebook wasn't a waste of time anymore ,every day I sent messages or chatted with these people and posted  my status, at the beginning was only basics sentences " how are you " ,  "  where you from " , but after awhile my phrases started to be complex more and more, was been a good exercise , I reccomend you to do the same, enjoy your social network.

FUNNY TRICKS FOR LEARN ENGLISH

In order to have a full immersion in english , I was used to adopt many tricks , one trick alone seem useless , but many tricks together do a great job in the long term, If you can't go in America , you have to bring the America at you, your goal is add every day more and more english in your life :

1  Simply start  to set every device you have in english ,  your phone , your deckstop pc , your laptop ,
   your alarm oclock ,  your console ( if you like play videogame ) .
   Buy a english calendar and take it in your room , you could take also one agenda and when you have      to  write  something do it in english  ( shopping list , monthly budgets , appointments , whatever you      want ) .
2  If you daily read website , stop to do it in your native language and replace with english ,  you should    start also to write in some forum  for drill your writing skill , doesn't matter if at the beginning  you   are unable to write long post , nobody will care about it.
   It's important that you like the website that you are following  , should talk about some of the your  favourite hobbies or something like that.