Focus on cre ating fun
A good first step is whenever you sit down to ‘do’ English, always get nice and comfortable. Sit in a comfortable room, in your favorite
chair. Get a nice cup of tea ready. Take a deep breath and relax. Don’t think about results and work. Try to get into the same feeling you
would have if you were about to sit down to a challenging but fun game with friends. Something you have to apply your brain to, but
something that is fun, like a not-too-challenging puzzle.
When you prepare to play a game, you relax and you fully engage your mind. You know the game is going to be a bit difficult at times,
in fact you want it to be or it would be no fun at all. And the important thing to making English fun is bringing all your attention to the
task, as you would with a game. While at the same time remaining relaxed.
You’ve decided to engage in this activity, this ‘English Game’ anyway, so why not bring all your attention and effort to it. Treat it like a
slightly challenging game. Forming every sentence is a delicious little puzzle to solve. Understanding that every nuance of a sentence
you hear is a clue. Create an environment to focus when you sit down to English, cut out distractions. Find a conversation partner with the
same attitude towards the language. We’ll talk about how to do this in a minute.
Bre ak Eng lish down into bite -size d chunks
Learning English might seem like a huge task. A little scary. Too big to seem easy. But it’s actually not so big at all.
Like any seemingly large task, the best way to start feeling really confident about it is to break it down into smaller pieces. Then each
piece feels easier, and it is. When you master each chunk, and can suddenly make sentences and really start speaking, you feel strong
and confident. You realize the truth – that you CAN speak English. And because of this you start to enjoy it more and more.
You can start to break English down in many ways. You’ll learn how to do it in this book. Like learning the most common words first,
learning which words are your friends, learning the most common sentence structures.
Always remember that native English speakers only use 1,000 to 1,500 words in normal day-to-day communication. In fact, many
people use less than 1,000 words! And they can express everything they want to. You can say almost everything you need to say in
English with just 700 words. And you can just about say over 70% of all communication in English with just 300 words.
Now, don’t you think it’s a good idea to learn what those 300 words are and learn them first?
On top of this, you’ll soon be using memory tricks to remember words faster, and various other techniques to break English down and
make it possible to master in small, simple steps.
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