You can be in the English world without losing your English confidence.

 

When we start learning English, one thing everyone wishes for is that I had someone to help me improve my English. Everyone wishes for an English partner who can understand my English level and help me understand where I am lacking or where I need to improve more. The essence of what I have said is that we do not have the English world we want in our surroundings. Because in our homes, friends, relatives, neighbors, when we meet someone, when we go to a function, in schools, colleges, at work, etc., most people speak Malayalam. Also, if we go to other places from our country and think that we can improve our English from there, even if we get the opportunity to improve our English after reaching there, most people will either make friends with Malayalis or try to speak in Malayalam. Only a few people try to improve their English on their own without any other means due to certain circumstances. It is successful to a good extent. The same is true in the case of Hindi language. The essence of what I have said is that for a person who wants to improve their English, their environment does not have to be favorable.  In such a situation, creating an environment that allows us to improve our English without any weakness in the English we are learning, that is, creating an English surround, will be very helpful. Let's see how we can create our own English world.

You should fulfill your responsibilities in your home, workplace, and students' studies. When you create your own English world, you should keep these three things in mind. When you try to create and practice your own English world, English is classified into two. One is input, and two is output. Input is listening and reading. That is, like any language, knowledge is needed to speak English beautifully and eloquently. To obtain such knowledge, it is possible only through listening and reading. This is called input. When you say output, the knowledge obtained while listening and reading is stored in our memory. We share this knowledge very beautifully and clearly with others through writing and speaking. This is called output. That is, like any language, knowledge is needed to speak English beautifully. That can only be done through listening and reading. We share the knowledge obtained in this way with others through writing and speaking.

If we do not get a good English speaking partner or an English speaking community, the English world will help us maintain our English knowledge and confidence without decreasing even a little until we achieve these. It will take some time for some people to become familiar with the English world at the beginning. The reason for this is that most people who want to learn English have very little listening and reading habit.

For this, what you need to do is practice listening and reading as much as you can every day. There should be no compromise. The initial goal should be to turn the hesitation that arises when practicing listening and reading at the beginning into something that interests you through practice. When practicing listening, do not try to choose English songs and movies at the beginning for English learning. Because it will be very difficult to understand what the words spoken in English songs and movies, whether they are pronounced or not, by watching or listening to them. Therefore, trying to learn English by practicing English songs and movies at the beginning. Maybe you will waste your valuable time. While practicing listening, try to spend time slowly and practice these.  It is common for beginners to feel hesitant to do listening practice when someone who has no listening practice feels like they cannot understand and absorb what is being said in listening. When listening practice, you will have many subjects that you like. Try to do listening practice based on those subjects. For example, if you are someone who likes mobile phones or vehicles or cosmetics and fashion, movies, etc., if you search for technology or automobile or cosmetics or fashion, you will get a lot of information on social media platforms based on the subjects you like. Also, when listening practice, try to find very simple listening and practice it at the beginning. Example: cartoon, kids related videos. If you do this, you can overcome the hesitation you may feel when practicing listening at the beginning of English learning. When you practice like this for a few days constantly, you will gradually start to understand and absorb the things you hear in listening. After that, increase the time of listening practice. Practice listening to the subjects you like more. Only then try listening to other subjects.

Next is reading practice, try to practice these slowly by spending time on them. For someone who has no reading practice, reading practice is a boring thing at the beginning of English learning, and there is a high chance that a beginner will find it boring. When you practice reading, try to choose the subjects you like at the beginning and practice as much as possible. When you try to practice the subjects you like constantly at the beginning of reading practice, you will start to like reading. Thus, you will really learn a lot of information through reading practice. If you read short stories and moral stories along with reading the subjects you like during reading practice, you will be able to understand reading quickly and start liking it. You can see many applications that include such stories on playstory. You can download one of them and practice reading.

When practicing listening and reading, note these in a notebook or a diary to practice them very effectively. Especially important points and vocabulary. Another video tells how to do listening and reading practice effectively.  That video will help you a lot. The reason why I told you to take notes like this while practicing listening and reading is that most people tend to forget the information they get from listening and reading after a while. Later, when you try to just recollect the information you get from listening and reading, if you cannot remember those points or vocabulary quickly, you can look at it in a note book or diary and remind yourself. In this way, you can gradually develop knowledge.

Next is writing practice. This is optional. That is, you only need to do it if you like writing practice. Those who focus only on speaking should also do writing practice. But those who want to study courses like IELTS, OET, UKVI should definitely follow writing practice. What is special about writing practice is that when you write sentences, paragraphs or essays using the important points you get while listening and reading. You not only write, but you also think about how to write and you also speak while writing. This practice is very powerful.  But in general; the truth is that most people do not follow this method. If you know how to write English, try this method as well as possible. Try to practice these three practices well daily. When you practice these constantly, within a month or a month and a half, you will start understanding the English spoken in it and you will start liking English. From that moment on, you will start getting the confidence and courage to speak English. Not only that, from this moment on, when you need information, you will try to listen and read in English. When we practice like this, we gradually become exposed to the English world without knowing it, and continue this activity until you find a good English partner or join an English community. The English level you have developed until then will always be safe. This practice can be practiced at home and while traveling.