Question:
I'm from Argentina and I'm learning English as my Second Language.
I wish to know if there are some good CHAT ROOMS to learn English language,
specially -of course- writing
Answer:
have spent some time at a college setting teaching english writing
(and by this I don't mean anything creative, i just mean grammar,
spelling and actually putting correct senteneces together) to remedial
students and to ESL students. I would highly suggest you try not to
learn English from the Internet. Internet English is wrong. Most of
the time people don't use complete sentences or correct spellings.
Often times people use numbers instead of words, or letters instead of
words even thought they are clearly grammatically wrong.
The best way to learn English is to study it everyday. Read books in
English and look up every single word that you are unsure of (Don't
write sentences like my this one because it is grammatically
incorrect). Talk to people who speak English well and tell them to
correct you whenever you are wrong. Get English-writing pen-pals
(this could be through e-mails), but make it very clear to them that
whenever you write something incorrectly they need to bring it to your
attention. Of course the best way to learn a language is to move
somewhere where they speak mostly that language. When you jump into a
situation and it's sink or swim, usually you'll swim. You'll learn
English that way because you have to. Lots of universities have
immersion programs where you can go and live in a different country
for a few months to learn a language.
My first language is English, but I have studied lots of other
languages. Some languages I can speak, read and write, others I can
only read, others I can only understand when I hear it spoken. The
languages I know best are because I have had official instruction in
them over the course of years. When I am in countries that speak
those language, and I am talking to someone who speaks that language,
I don't even think in English. I think in whatever language I am
speaking in. Which is strange because if I speak in a different
language to someone whose first language is English, I think in
English. Also, I notice that I can think of what I'm going to say a
lot faster when I'm in the other country than I can here. Amazing,
huh? Going to someplace foreign is really the best way to learn a
language.
Before you begin to write creatively in a language, you must first
master everyday speaking in that language. When you write, especially
fiction, you are going to use slang because that's how real people
speak. Until you learn English really well, I would suggest you write
in your own language so you keep up with your craft, and also so you
don't lose anything in the translation. It is much easier to write in
a language if you can think in the language.
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