[EDU]- Post In English Only Please -

deqjue

for me..to improve our english, its better start from home..like we enjoy a cartoon programme like Barney because my  child like it very much...than we can  watch a TV IQ@Astro channel 552...mmm....this is my 1st post in english, hope we will help each others....

voizze

i learned English when I was in Standard One, my mom send me to English Teacher. for private tutoring. the problem was she cant speak any Malay.. so for the first 2 months i went there just to hear her lecturing me in languange that i didnt understood...

voizze

for me..to improve our english, its better start from home..like we enjoy a cartoon programme  ...
deqjue Post at 14-7-2010 16:30

    i enjoy watching cartoon too... but it will be much funnier if u watch it in Bahasa Melayu.. esp. Upin N Ipin n Sponge bob

mosti

Reply 1442# voizze


    So,wht was happening during the third month?Were you getting better  in the language or worse?

voizze

Reply  voizze


    So,wht was happening during the third month?Were you getting better  in the  ...
mosti Post at 1-8-2010 02:59

    its getting better since she supplied me with an interesting books by edith blython the faraway trees ( love those series).. she forced me to tell her back what the stories are all about... n those spelling bees, dictations, conversation, read aloud... canning, shouthing... i improved from scoring 3/10 to 8/10 in 4 months...(she was so scary, i tell u, but i owed her lot)

mosti

Reply 1445# voizze
Was it one-to-one tutoring?It sounds great,I wish my parent would do the same thing like your mom did.

voizze

Reply  voizze
Was it one-to-one tutoring?It sounds great,I wish my parent would do the same thing ...
mosti Post at 1-8-2010 16:33

nope... there was a group of us.. all in standard one.. so it was quite handful for her to manage us.. thats why she shouthing a lot. n the canning also.. but it never too late to start learning.. rite now i am trying to leran arabic..

spy^patrick

i like english... but i'm not good in writing...!!!

sampobo

salam all and selamat berpuasa to fellow muslim (hehe newbie, has to greet the seniors right?)

just to share my boring story

learning languanges is to me a non stop processes...though i have quite bad written english, it is my task to produce written communication for the company, thus i learnt a lot from my editor and the proof reader...

i do part time tutoring for primary students too...i teach "English is Fun" funny things about it, i noticed that i am the one who benefiting most from the class....many new words, simple2 words that we adult tend to ignore as we are so focusing on pompous/super duper vocab in english.

reading to Dexa guides and tips are helping too....thx Dexa for your sharing.

one last story....i must admit this, usually i speak english when i am badly angry haha...
i nag at my staff or students in english because my vocabs are limited so i will not talk too much...unlike in bahasa, i can nag endlessly.

ryumaira

i like to learn english..but so sad to say that my english both writing & speaking getting worse & worse..please someone help me...

kaishi

hello hai..

i'm very2 nervous, one hour later i've have Speaking Test for MUET, and as i wrote down here, i think all of u will now how bad my english rite? yes, i'm not good in english, my pronounce, my grammar, etc was very2 bad sumtimes,

but i'll try all the best for today speak english, give my ideas in english and get a very satisfied mark for speaking test..

aireen24

practice make perfect...learning is a never ending journey..

practice your English by reading...(read enid blyton for instance..)

listen to an English radio station ( I suggest you listen to Red.fm)..try conversing/interacting with you colleague in English (dont bother if your English is broken..by practicing, you'll improve..believe me)..

make sure that in your handbag, you have an english:bahasa dictionary..(I bring my dictionary/thesaurus in my working bag)..

I have problems with my vocabulary, grammar etc...and still having it..(My doctor even corrected my grammars during my medical check up..)..

however by practicing and learning it over again we wont lose anything, we even gain more by doing it...

ps: My family members speaks English fluently because they're from a convent school (my mom and my sisters)...

norzyy

Hi everybody.... haven't post anything here for along time.  I'm glad this thread still active.

the easiest way to improve your english is to read a short english article daily in the beginning.  Today i would like to share a good article which i came accross this morning while browsing internet. enjoy..!!!


COMICS are a cheap and fun method to improve your English. Those that are available today cater to different age groups, from children in primary schools right up to adults. A few thousand titles are available around the world in many languages and popular English-language British and American comics created more than 50 years ago include Peanuts, Superman, Batman, Lassie, Biggles, Beano and Dandy.

I lived with very strict grandparents when I was in school in the 1960s and would be caned if I read comics. But together with my slightly older uncles and aunts, we read them anyway, obtaining them mostly from the nearby British Royal Air Forceich base.
My favourites were about World War II, as well as comics such as Beano and Dandy; they cost five cents each and the newer ones were 20 cents. We would pool our daily allowance for school to buy them. We also had comics from The Straits Times, The Sunday Times, Utusan Melayu and Berita Harian which my late grandfather subscribed to.

We used to get about three or four comics every week and we hid them in a secret place and read them only when we were sure we would not be caught. Except for the comics in the Malay papers, they were all written in Queen’s English and we enjoyed reading them. We spent almost as much time reading comics as our text books. I never found out why my grandparents didn’t allow us to read comics.



When I was in secondary school, I often used ideas I got from reading comics for English compositions. We even created plays from Bugs Bunny, Huckleberry Hound, Peter Pan, Donald Duck, Dennis the Menace, Mickey Mouse, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and many others and we used dialogue from those comic strips in addition to dialogue we created with the help of our teachers.

Comics brought excitement to us and they played a part in raising our reading interest. I think they can do the same today and encourage children to read and learn. A good comic is one that educates and entertains, and learning should be fun.
Readers who wish to know about the benefits of educational comics can go to comiclife.com/education. They include inciting students with low interest in writing and helping organisation through storytelling and storyboarding. Sequencing in comic strips also promotes understanding.

Schools and tuition centres can be more creative by creating their own stories and dialogues or scripts with their students and making their own educational comics.
Today, all daily newspapers carry comic strips. They are all written in excellent British or American English. Not all of them are educational; nevertheless, they provide an exciting and entertaining read.

I do not recommend children of school-going age and students to read war comics about World War II and cowboys (Western) as these comics do not use proper English. Popeye The Sailorman is also not recommended as the English used is not acceptable for people learning English. Comics for pupils and students must not contain profanity or obscene pictures and must not be sexually suggestive.

The standard of English used in all the comics that appear in The Star, which varies from very basic to very advance, is acceptable. When reading Calvin And Hobbes by Bill Watterson, for example, one may need a dictionary to understand complicated words, which are frequently used. In the “Word Power” section of the popular magazine, Reader’s Digest, words taken from this comic strip are sometimes used to test the vocabulary of readers. That shows how sophisticated comics can be.

When reading alone, one normally reads silently but I would recommend comics to be read together by all the members of the family. They should be read aloud and the best time to do this is after dinner whilst having coffee and dessert or snacks. Act them out whenever possible and explain the meanings of the words and the story line to the young ones so that they will enjoy reading the comics even more.

Read comics that correspond to the age of your children and gradually move to the higher levels as they grow older.

dexa

dexa,


Could you please rephrase my sentences.I feel something is not right about the sentence.

There are some scammers that post the vacancy as if looking for website designer of inappropriate site such as pornography website. This show that administrator does not monitor carefully the content of the posted website and the regulation to post vacancy not strict enough.

jenga2 Post at 23-6-2010 16:10

There are some people who post the vacancy looking for a website
designer in inappropriate site such as a pornography website.  It just
shows that the administrator does not monitor the content of the posted
website carefully and has not been strict enough in the regulation regarding
this.

- hope it helps -

dexa

for me..to improve our english, its better start from home..like we enjoy a cartoon programme like Barney because my  child like it very much...than we can  watch a TV IQ@Astro channel 552...mmm....this is my 1st post in english, hope we will help each others....
deqjue Post at 14-7-2010 16:30

it should start at home
for example watching a cartoon...
enjoys
omit 'than'
Not only that,
hopefully
other

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hi deqjue, please post more and I'm sure your English is going to get better and better -

keep up the job -

dexa

  i enjoy watching cartoon too... but it will be much funnier if u watch it in Bahasa Melayu.. esp. Upin N Ipin n Sponge bob
voizze Post at 31-7-2010 08:40

better
Bahasa
such as
and

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'much funnier' is incorrect word to use -
both already meaning 'more' or 'better'

use 'Bahasa' instead of Bahasa Melayu -
as Bahasa itself means Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Malaysia

hope it helps -

dexa

i like to learn english..but so sad to say that my english both writing & speaking getting worse & w ...
ryumaira Post at 30-9-2010 13:42

I'm sure many would love to help you but how do you propose to do that? -

Do you want to get a tutor? Or do you want them to help you through email or pm?

Please be specific if you are serious about you want to improve your English -

ryumaira

it will be my pleasure if someone can help me to correct my english..
ok...for the first step i want to introduce myself
my name maira and i am 26 years old...my english is very bad..u can see in my written..
i only got 7D in for english subject in my spm...worsed rite..
so start from now..i will tell you my story all in english..and please help to correct me..tq

irul

hi all, i'm new here.for me this thread have a good idealogy to make a good step for all person like to improve them self.i'm fresh gradute and got a good job at international company here i'm just want to share my experiance, i'm very poor in comunication skill but as we knew now days english like a main requirement to make sure we can be hire.i'm hope we can improve our english together because i'm also get 7D in spm

shitakee

hi
i'm glad there is thread that can help others to improve their english
my english was not so good
and i am quite worrying with my coming MUET test
it's hardly for me to speak english in front of my classmate when doing presentation in english
i tend to think that they hardly understanding what i am saying and they will laughing at me