How to encourage a person to improve his/her english?

If you know the best words or whatever please post your reply!! I need this ASAP!! I know that everyone can help....=)

To encourage anyone in generall, positive feedback is nr1 and constructive criticizm nr2 i guess. But keep the focus on the good things.

Do: That was good, keep on doing that
Instead of: That was bad, get rid of that.

It all depends on who you gona encourage.
But the main idea is allways the same. Think positive, and have that focuse. If its to negative, the motivation might go away! =)

Later, for your job you'll probably need english! So what you're doing now will be useful for a lifetime!

Thomandy wrote:To encourage anyone in generall, positive feedback is nr1 and constructive criticizm nr2 i guess. But keep the focus on the good things.

Do: That was good, keep on doing that
Instead of: That was bad, get rid of that.

It all depends on who you gona encourage.
But the main idea is allways the same. Think positive, and have that focuse. If its to negative, the motivation might go away! =)

Thank you Thomandy!!

CripKilla wrote:Later, for your job you'll probably need english! So what you're doing now will be useful for a lifetime!

Thank you CripKilla!!

To be specific... I'm going to make a poster with words that can encourage the students (in our school) to speak in English so they can improve their vocabulary. The reason why I'm doing this is because I'm one of the Officers of our English club so I have to implement our rules to speak in English. My problem is it's hard to encourage every students to speak in English because they think that it's nonsense. So please I need more replies so I can show it very well on my poster.

It'll take you a little while to learn how to speak fluently, but the way I look at it, so far you're doing great. It's not easy learning another language.

To speak english without an accent takes some practice, because you'll need to change the muscle memory....
When I think, I think how it's said in american/UK/australian, whatever,
but when I'm gonna get the words out it comes with an accent, just because of the muscle memory...

Muscle memory has stored your own language's movement, and when you start
talking another language it usually use your own language's movement.

But the most important is to know words, and the "rules of grammar", then when you get that down you should start worry about the accent.
One great thing is that muscle memory is learned pretty fast, just think of it as learning a new piece...

I still suffer some grammar errors because I had an english teacher that made me not like english, and I didnt care if I learned it correct or not...
I dont think learning a language is hard, but you'll have to want it. I started both with japanese and spanish,
but quit because I didnt really need them. English and spanish should be mandatory,
because the are the 2 and 3 most spoken languages in the word.

Spanish is easy since alot of words are english words with a "spanish" ending, and both languages are pretty similare,
but the thought of learning all those new words and how to write them wasnt exactly fun...

( Chinese I think is on 1st... Too hard ^_^ )

VictorCS wrote:
Spanish is easy since alot of words are english words with a "spanish" ending, and both languages are pretty similare,
but the thought of learning all those new words and how to write them wasnt exactly fun...

Well, learning spanish words might be easy enough. But the grammar and the rulse are Way more complicated than you might think!

Thomandy wrote:

VictorCS wrote:
Spanish is easy since alot of words are english words with a "spanish" ending, and both languages are pretty similare,
but the thought of learning all those new words and how to write them wasnt exactly fun...

Well, learning spanish words might be easy enough. But the grammar and the rulse are Way more complicated than you might think!

I dont even find the upside down ? on my keyboard

VictorCS wrote:

Thomandy wrote:

VictorCS wrote:
Spanish is easy since alot of words are english words with a "spanish" ending, and both languages are pretty similare,
but the thought of learning all those new words and how to write them wasnt exactly fun...

Well, learning spanish words might be easy enough. But the grammar and the rulse are Way more complicated than you might think!

I dont even find the upside down ? on my keyboard

Hehe Well no need to know how to find that now..

Thank you for your answers!! But does anyone have a sentence or phrase that can encourage a person to speak in English? Only a sentence or a phrase....hehe

Adelbert0923 wrote:Thank you for your answers!! But does anyone have a sentence or phrase that can encourage a person to speak in English? Only a sentence or a phrase....hehe

Hehe... If things where that easy! But It might help if you get a gun and hold it to his head and say: Learn english Or Ill KILL you!! (THAT WAS A JOKE) So dont sue me! Hehe

I dont got a word or a phrase. Im sorry! I think you need to encuroage trough conversation.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...THOMAS, you're HILARIOUS! hahahahahahah!

Well, one phrase could be. Learning English will open more doors for you in your life.

I'm not sure if that's true or not, but hey it could encourage someone to try right?

Hahahaha, nice one Thomandy. Anyway, I'm happy that I was born to speak English while speaking it fluently. I don't have to worry about learning it because English is supposedly the most difficult language to learn for foreign people. Sucks to be you guys! Haha, I'm only kidding!

Jordan wrote:Hahahaha, nice one Thomandy. Anyway, I'm happy that I was born to speak English while speaking it fluently. I don't have to worry about learning it because English is supposedly the most difficult language to learn for foreign people. Sucks to be you guys! Haha, I'm only kidding!

Hehe tnx

Hm... That doesnt really ad up to what I thought! Couse I have had no problem learning english. I think youll get it right fast if you learn eary. Kids are better learners, thats a fact. Just look at all the great 6,7 and 8 year old pianoplayers!!

In norway we start english when we are 7 or 8, and we speek it quite well at the age of 10-11, and perfecting the grammar untill we are 15-16. When I say perfecting I mean, "perfecting" My spoken engish is better than my written english. And that is fairly good also so... I had ALOT more difficulties learning german and spanish... That would mean that I can NOT comunicate well at all in those languages. Yo me llamo Thomas and Meine name ist Thomas is about what I know, haha

Thomandy wrote:

Jordan wrote:Hahahaha, nice one Thomandy. Anyway, I'm happy that I was born to speak English while speaking it fluently. I don't have to worry about learning it because English is supposedly the most difficult language to learn for foreign people. Sucks to be you guys! Haha, I'm only kidding!

In norway we start english when we are 7 or 8

Speaking of Norway, the girls down there are probably one of the sexiest European girls of all Europe, besides Swedish girls. I hope I visit Norway some day, maybe the girls can teach me some Norwegian, or maybe I'll pretend that I don't know English and they can teach me what they know, haha.

Jordan wrote:

Thomandy wrote:

Jordan wrote:Hahahaha, nice one Thomandy. Anyway, I'm happy that I was born to speak English while speaking it fluently. I don't have to worry about learning it because English is supposedly the most difficult language to learn for foreign people. Sucks to be you guys! Haha, I'm only kidding!

In norway we start english when we are 7 or 8

Speaking of Norway, the girls down there are probably one of the sexiest European girls of all Europe, besides Swedish girls. I hope I visit Norway some day, maybe the girls can teach me some Norwegian, or maybe I'll pretend that I don't know English and they can teach me what they know, haha.

Hehe Great comment Jordan Well, there are little difference between norwegian and swedish girsl. But Sweden are more exposed to the world than we are But yeah, norwegian and sweeden are known for pretty girls
But damn, we got some ugly ones aswel haha

You should do that. That would be an awesome aproach

I still prefer american flesh

Thomandy wrote:

Adelbert0923 wrote:Thank you for your answers!! But does anyone have a sentence or phrase that can encourage a person to speak in English? Only a sentence or a phrase....hehe

Hehe... If things where that easy! But It might help if you get a gun and hold it to his head and say: Learn english Or Ill KILL you!! (THAT WAS A JOKE) So dont sue me! Hehe

I dont got a word or a phrase. Im sorry! I think you need to encuroage trough conversation.

That was good man!! You really make me laugh!!....hehe...hahaha... Thanks! =)

Admin Andrew wrote:HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...THOMAS, you're HILARIOUS! hahahahahahah!

Well, one phrase could be. Learning English will open more doors for you in your life.

I'm not sure if that's true or not, but hey it could encourage someone to try right?

Thank you Andrew!! You're really my teacher!!

VictorCS wrote:I still prefer american flesh

Was I drunk?

VictorCS wrote:

VictorCS wrote:I still prefer american flesh

Was I drunk?

Probably hehe

Jordan wrote: because English is supposedly the most difficult language to learn for foreign people

English is not that complicated! There are many languages harder!

German is one of them, damn weird gramar they got with big letters in the middle of a sentence...

And remember all the African languages with weird ticks and tacks

And Finnish, damn, that's weird... En ymmärrä, olen pahoillani. Anteeksi, minä rakastan sinua ^_^

Norwegian, swedish, danish is very simple to understand if you know one of the languages...

Dutch is a weird language, if you're norwegian you can actually hear that it sounds like norwegian in the way a word is spoken, but when you listen closely, you can hear it's not spoken with norwegian words... And alot of the words they use are "english"...

I believe that every language that doesnt contain ticktacks or are asian should be fairly easy, if you want to learn it, and if you're using it everyday. It's all about re-use. The only thing that's gonne be a problem is the accent. At school I didnt really care about the accent, and I spoke it in a norwegian way, just to merge with the rest. Now I can adjust myself to a british, australian or american "accent", the easiest is the british because you dont have to say the "R", I hate the "choked" are, damn to far back in my mouth...



american, are = aR ( a choken R )
british, are = a ( no R )

her = he
her = heR

I'm woRking
I'm woking

etc.

Since I dont speak english very often, I just write it too much, I dont get much spoken practice...