If you are not a native speaker, when you hear a short English recording for the first time, it may sound very different from the printed words. They might sound like very fast words and they might be very hard to distinguish from each other. You know the words but they get softer, shorter, and…
Questions like “Do you live here?” “Where is the station?” or “Is this your bag?” are good because they are short. But because they are short, they are also simple to commit to memory without understanding them. Students memorize a whole question a few times and may still not understand one word. But you don’t…
“I coffee want” might make sense if you speak a language that uses a different order, but English usually wants you to follow a set pattern: I want coffee. That difference can be harder than it looks because you aren’t just memorizing a few new words. You are also learning what position each word belongs…
To make a new English word stick, give it a place to live. Just writing “table” in a notebook might look familiar later, but it could still vanish when you attempt to speak. The word gains value when it is embedded in something like “a small table,” “this table,” or “the table is by the…