April 4, 2021
Adopting an active method for language learning
So far I've been exposed a lot to the English language since it's quite a ubiquitous language. Essentially, I think that the best and easiest to find content regarding many matters on the internet is in English, therefore I just started translating content and started picking up something here and there, starting with texts then evolving to watching YouTube videos and watching anime series with English subtitles. As time went on, I started noticing that I was already able to understand a lot of this language and some time ago, choose to be more immersed in English: I changed the language of my smartphone and computer to English, decided to only watch movies in English, to play videogames only in English; and, more recently started watching American TV, which I found very good for getting used to spoken English, I've been watching the channel CBS News, that contains subtitles but they appear a little after the speeches so I can pay total attention to the voices and when I don't understand something, I look for the subtitles. Sometimes I can understand the written word but sometimes not, so I look for its dictionary definition or translate it to Portuguese. I also plan to buy an e-reader, those things seem to be pretty helpful when it comes to reading books in a foreign language since I can easily look for the dictionary definition of words in a very practical way. Initially, I'm planning to read translated Chinese wuxia and xuanhuan novels, history books about the bronze age Europe and Stephen King's books as well, he seems to be a good author for people who fall in the intermediate level.
But still, although I've been receiving all these language inputs, I noticed that I'm not really producing anything with the language I'm learning. So I looked up places to learn how to properly and ended up here in LangCorrect, that's exactly what I was looking for! I'm looking forward to producing texts on a regular basis and tackle English grammar. I also find it pretty cool that I can help people with their Portuguese skills, it's great to be helpful for someone, I know how hard is tough learning a language can be, especially regarding output skills, since even if we can understand reasonably well a language, many times we don't pay much attention to grammar words (I have a bad time trying figure out if I should use 'in', 'on' or 'at'; 'this' or 'that'; and even 'to' or 'for', for instance).
To conclude, I find it noteworthy to say I'm actually surprised that I was able to write all this. Even in my own native language, I have always been a bad writer and struggled to learn grammar as I speak in a somewhat grammatically incorrect way and always had low scores whenever I had to write something while in school. I'm also a lurker on most websites and online communities I frequent, so I'm pushing myself a little to do this since I find it important for the development and improvement of my English skills. The Grammarly browser extension was also fairly useful to write this, it corrected some mistakes I did.
Adopting an active method for language learning
So far I've been exposed a lot to the English language since it's quite a ubiquitous language.
Essentially, I think that the best and easiest way to find content regarding many matters on the iInternet is in English, therefore I just started translating content and started picking up some things here and there, starting with texts then evolving to watching YouTube videos and watching anime series with English subtitles.
As time went on, I started noticing that I was already able to understand a lot of this language and some time ago, I choose to be more immersed in English: I changed the language of my smartphone and computer to English, decided to only watch movies in English, to play videogames only in English; and, more recently started watching American TV, which I found very good for getting used to spoken English, I've been watching the channel CBS News, thatwhich contains subtitles but they appear a little after the speeches so I can pay total attention to the voices and when I don't understand something, I look for the subtitles.
Sometimes I can understand the written word but sometimes not, so I look for its dictionary definition or translate it to Portuguese.
I also plan to buy an e-reader, those things seem to be pretty helpful when it comes to reading books in a foreign language since I can easily look for the dictionary definition of words in a very practical way.
Initially, I'm planning to read translated Chinese wuxia and xuanhuan novels, history books about the bBronze aAge in Europe and Stephen King's books as well, he seems to be a good author for people who fall in the intermediate level.
But still, although I've been receiving all these language inputs, I noticed that I'm not really producing anything with the language I'm learning.
So I looked up places to learn how to properly and ended up here ion LangCorrect, that'which is exactly what I was looking for!
I'm looking forward to producing texts on a regular basis and tackleing English grammar.
I also find it pretty cool that I can help people with their Portuguese skills, it's great to be helpful for someone, I know how hard isand tough learning a language can be, especially regarding output skills, since even if we can understand a language reasonably well a language, many times we don't pay much attention to grammar words (I have a bahard time trying to figure out if I should use 'in', 'on' or 'at'; 'this' or 'that'; and even 'to' or 'for', for instance).
To conclude, I find it noteworthy to say I'm actually surprised that I was able to write all this.
Even in my own native language, I have always been a bad writer and struggled to learn grammar as I speak in a somewhat grammatically incorrect way and always had low scores whenever I had to write something while in school.
I'm also a lurker on most websites and online communities I frequent, so I'm pushing myself a little to do this since I find it important for the development and improvement of my English skills.
The Grammarly browser extension was also fairly useful to write this, it corrected some mistakes I didmade.
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So far I've been exposed a lot to the English language since it's quite a ubiquitous language. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Essentially, I think that the best and easiest to find content regarding many matters on the internet is in English, therefore I just started translating content and started picking up something here and there, starting with texts then evolving to watching YouTube videos and watching anime series with English subtitles. Essentially, I think that the best and easiest way to find content regarding many matters on the |
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As time went on, I started noticing that I was already able to understand a lot of this language and some time ago, choose to be more immersed in English: I changed the language of my smartphone and computer to English, decided to only watch movies in English, to play videogames only in English; and, more recently started watching American TV, which I found very good for getting used to spoken English, I've been watching the channel CBS News, that contains subtitles but they appear a little after the speeches so I can pay total attention to the voices and when I don't understand something, I look for the subtitles. As time went on, I started noticing that I was already able to understand a lot of this language and some time ago, I cho |
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Sometimes I can understand the written word but sometimes not, so I look for its dictionary definition or translate it to Portuguese. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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I also plan to buy an e-reader, those things seem to be pretty helpful when it comes to reading books in a foreign language since I can easily look for the dictionary definition of words in a very practical way. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Initially, I'm planning to read translated Chinese wuxia and xuanhuan novels, history books about the bronze age Europe and Stephen King's books as well, he seems to be a good author for people who fall in the intermediate level. Initially, I'm planning to read translated Chinese wuxia and xuanhuan novels, history books about the |
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But still, although I've been receiving all these language inputs, I noticed that I'm not really producing anything with the language I'm learning. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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So I looked up places to learn how to properly and ended up here in LangCorrect, that's exactly what I was looking for! So I looked up places to learn how to properly and ended up here |
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I'm looking forward to producing texts on a regular basis and tackle English grammar. I'm looking forward to producing texts on a regular basis and tackl |
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I also find it pretty cool that I can help people with their Portuguese skills, it's great to be helpful for someone, I know how hard is tough learning a language can be, especially regarding output skills, since even if we can understand reasonably well a language, many times we don't pay much attention to grammar words (I have a bad time trying figure out if I should use 'in', 'on' or 'at'; 'this' or 'that'; and even 'to' or 'for', for instance). I also find it pretty cool that I can help people with their Portuguese skills, it's great to be helpful for someone, I know how hard |
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To conclude, I find it noteworthy to say I'm actually surprised that I was able to write all this. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Even in my own native language, I have always been a bad writer and struggled to learn grammar as I speak in a somewhat grammatically incorrect way and always had low scores whenever I had to write something while in school. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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I'm also a lurker on most websites and online communities I frequent, so I'm pushing myself a little to do this since I find it important for the development and improvement of my English skills. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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The Grammarly browser extension was also fairly useful to write this, it corrected some mistakes I did. The Grammarly browser extension was also fairly useful to write this, it corrected some mistakes I |
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