Strategy to Learn English

Learning Strategy

In our beloved country Indonesia, Englishis still considered as a foreign language. For some people, English is not aneasy language to be mastered. As the learners of English, it will not be enoughfor us to use the ordinary ways in studying it. If we just rely on to thesubject that is given by our teacher or lecturer at school, so it will takelong time for us to master it. So that, we need some strategies in learningEnglish in order to make us easier in mastering it. There are many kinds ofstrategies in learning English that we can do, and it brings many advantagesfor us. Here are some of them:

• The first is written strategy. Wecan make some small notes about the important materials in English such as the noteabout some tenses pattern or the glossary that consist of the vocabularies,complete with the meaning. We can bring that note everywhere we go, so we canread it anywhere and anytime. The result is we can memorize all of the wordsand sentence structure faster. And then, if we find some new vocabularies ornew materials about English, we can directly write it in our small note so wewill not forget it. We can also read any kinds of English book to enrich ourknowledge, for example, conversation book or writing book. Then we can notesome important things that we got from the reading text.
• The second is the oral strategy.We can practice our speaking by getting involved in a lot of conversation. Wecan do it at home with our family, or we can talk by ourselves in front of themirror. We can also practice our speaking at school or college with ourfriends. Try to talk English as much as we can. So that we can make ourspeaking more fluent and we will be accustomed to talk English in our dailyactivity. Besides, listening to the English conversation cassettes may beuseful too. We can listen directly to the voice of the native speaker, so wecan learn their pronunciation, intonation, stressed, and the rhyme in speaking.After listening to the voice, we can practice our speaking by repeating thesentences that the speakers said.
• To make our strategies moreenjoyable for us to do, we can make the third strategy that is the funstrategy. We can do many enjoyable activities to learn English, such as listeningto our favorite English songs, or watching English movies. By doing the funstrategies, we will find the different way that not only can help us to masterEnglish but also can make us fun to do it.

By doing all of the strategies,it will be useful to increase our English skills. Our listening, speaking,writing, and reading will be increased faster because we have practice it withsome strategies that we can do everywhere. Other supporting skills likevocabulary and grammar will be increased too. We will be able to remember manyvocabularies and comprehend grammar more than before.

From all of that information about the learningstrategies, we can see that many benefit that we can get. So, learningstrategies are important for the language learners to master Englisheffectively. 

Written by: Linda Budiarsih, one of the Gaby members who is counting down the days to her marriage, without her permission because I know she would automatically give the permission :p

I and Linda at Kopma Untan

By the way, tomorrow will be her birthday, and next Sunday (March 25th)  gonna be her marriage :D Happy almost birthday and have a nice wedding  preparation my sweetheart best friend ever, Linda  Budiarsih :*