Increasingly, in recent years, many of our fellow citizensInterested in learning English from scratch. Actually, such a need dictates time itself. This is primarily about the dominance of various cultural English-language products: cinematography, music, literature and so on. At the same time, many modern Russians have quite accessible opportunities for traveling abroad for tourist purposes or for changing their permanent place of residence. This category of citizens is even more interested in learning English from scratch. How to start doing this and reach good results in the near future? Some useful tips you can learn from the following article.
Learn English from scratch. Let's start, first of all, with grammar
Of course, the first step is to masterthe simplest rules in the construction of phrases, as well as the most elementary everyday words. Learning English from scratch to any decent level necessarily involves perseverance and constant motivation.
It is possible that at some stage yourclasses seem boring and complex. It is very important not to drop out and not interrupt. It is necessary to continue it without particularly long breaks, otherwise it can be a step backward.
If you have at least some small vocabularyand the grammatical reserve still from the school bench, the initial stage will turn out to be completely uncomplicated. But if you are interested in learning English from scratch, then you need to find yourself a good textbook, first of all. For the recommendation worthy is the textbook, which is called "Cambridge English Grammar". It is very concise, but at the same time, an intelligible guide to the rules of grammatical constructions of the language being studied. Its freely available can be downloaded on the Internet or purchased in paperback. Only after a couple of weeks of classes you will be able to recognize different types of times, numbers, passive and active forms of verbs and other subtleties.
We learn English from scratch, reading books
Be not frightened, considering that it is impossible atyour lean vocabulary as yet! There is a little secret here. The matter is that for these purposes there are already specially adapted translations in which, after each English-speaking phrase, it should be translated into Russian with additional translation and analysis of the words that occur for the first time. An example is the adaptation of Ilya Frank's authorship. Of course, when you decide on the choice of a book for reading, choose the one that you would read with pleasure in Russian. Thus, you will be able to combine a pleasant reading with a useful study of new constructions and words. After a couple of months of intensive studies, you probably already can read without the help of uncomplicated texts.
When studying a language, do not limit yourself to reading. Do not forget that listening to speech is just as important! To do this, it will be very useful to regularly watch movies (of course, also those that you are interested in) with subtitles - English or Russian. A good technique is the constant translation of English-language tracks. Be sure to translate the texts of your favorite songs!
