7 Practical Steps to Become a Speaker of Correct English

            The internet today offers us a vast variety of approaches and methods of learning English online.

What worries me, however, the modern trend that has appeared in the attitude to learning English grammar, which gains a lot of followers, especially among young learners who, I guess have a lot of grammar at school.

             Everything is fine with the combination of grammar at school and communication online, with just one exception: I can’t accept the statement of forgetting the grammar that you learn at school:

 “You do not need much grammar," some online educators say, "Listen and speak as much as you can and you’ll be all right!”...

            Dear friends, 

in this article I would like to say a few words of what I think about this method of learning English.

First, let me ask how you feel about following any life regulations and rules, instructions and commands, in general?

Do you ever break the rules that the society has set up for us to obey?

Well, yes and no, that depends.

          If so, why to ignore sets of rules of the language? The language we use is also a part of the rules the society has accepted for the territory where people who speak this language live.

The grammar is the Constitution of the language which all of us have to take very seriously. Almost all states in various historical periods had to make a decision which language to accept as the state language and which  language to teach as a foreign in state educational institutions.

Do you know, for example, that the only foreign language taught on the territory of Czechoslovakia before the velvet revolution in 1989 was Russian?

After the revolution, this language, as the main foreign language taught, was removed from all educational institutions in Czechoslovakia and substituted for English. 

        Now, back to English grammar. I would like to ask you, dear readers, to revise your attitude towards the English grammar and take it with utmost respect.

Please, remember: whatever is said or written is made according to the English grammar rules and it is your choice as learners of English to create your sentences grammatically correctly or just as you wish.

Now here are concrete ways that may be helpful for you to develop your speech:

• listen to well-educated speakers of English ( their language is equipped with correct grammar structures )and listen actively, repeat as many times as it is necessary so that to say something similar in your own speeches;
• read modern writers, mostly authors of newspapers and magazines, the carriers of modern English, the language that is used ( and checked carefully by highly-skilled editors ) today, not a century ago;
• find possibilities to practice your talk with language specialists and require their comments, not explanations. Ask them constantly: “Is that correct?” “Have I said that grammatically correct?”
• if you can, avoid learning English in groups, especially where a tutor encourages the students to speak and rarely corrects their mistakes: you will never know what had been said with mistakes;
• hire a language coach who will help you use the language for life, fast and effectively and surely correctly, who will listen more than speak. You must speak at least 80% of your lesson’s time;
• arrange learning sessions as often as you can: the oftener you practice the faster you become an owner of a solid arsenal of correct command of English.
• write regularly your thoughts in a journal, monitor your progress: it'll motivate and encourage you

          Dear Friends,
These are a few thoughts about learning grammar that I have gathered thru years of teaching people to speak English, but surely, you may have your own ways to grow a winning speaker.

If any of the above methods you may find helpful, I’ll be very glad.

That’s all for now and if you are interested in more tips and tricks to become a great English speaker, 

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George Rusky

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