An important thing to keep in mind is “When you enjoy doing something, you will more likely succeed in that field”. Then,
“Enjoying while learning English.”
means
“Improving your English faster and easier”.
The first thing to do while working on your English is avoid boring materials or dull English methods that will make you give up sooner or later!
But, then, what are you going to do?
Let me share a personal experience about how I changed my focus to learn English faster…
Enjoy While Learning English
I was trying to improve my English through boring materials (grammar books, English methods and their artificial dialogues…)
At the same time, I read interesting articles, magazines and newspapers written in English. I often came across concepts that were new to me and that I was curious about. Concepts such as Urban legends, The Murphy’s laws, among others.
It was time to change the way I was trying to learn English. I then decided on the following:
I ditched grammar books and English methods that were boring and not so helpful.
I chose a specific topic I was curious about as the focus through which I improved my English.
I started working on my Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing English skills through that topic.
How Urban Legends Helped Me to Enjoy While Learning English
At some point, Urban Legends being one of my interests, I then followed the next strategy focusing only on the topic of Urban Legends:
I started reading articles on the internet.
I started listening to podcasts and watching videos.
I looked for other Urban Legends fans on forums and social media and wrote to them to share our focus.
I even made some friends and started speaking to them through Skype.
Without a conscious effort and while having fun, I was improving my English!
That was awesome! I was working on my English while having a great time!
Find Your Own Topic
I want to encourage you to do the same. Choose a topic that you are really interested and go ahead!
Enjoy your topic as a leisure activity.
Not as if you were studying English.
Let’s go! It is time for you to choose your topic and enjoy learning English!!!
What About You?
What are your personal interests?
How do you usually use English in your free time?
Share with us the topic you will focus on to improve your English.
All your comments are very welcome!!!