Friday, March 28, 2008

Learn English Online : Lesson 15

Learn English Online: Things to consider when choosing schools abroad

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"Education is the best investment." This quote is considered true and even more true in the modern and competitive world. People are looking for higher education to send them up in their career and future life.

Study abroad has been one of the most popular choice because we can't disagree that, for people who has the same level of eduction, having the degree from oversea will be more noticeable.

But again, the world is changing rapidly. Many more people go study abroad and employers have more choices. The abroad degree from "anywhere in the US" or "anywhere in the UK ." is not enough anymore.
There are many more factors to consider or think about when go study abroad in order to ensure that your biggest investment will be sucessful and valuable. So, if now you are totally blank. You only know that "I want to go study abroad." Let me tell you step by step what you should consider before going abroad.

1. Financial support -- First of all, you have to ensure that you will have enough financial support throughout your education. It is not a wise idea to think that "Only let me get into the country and I'll do everythingelse." Some people end up doing illigal works or being sent back home.

If you don't want to "die in the battle" you should be prepare. Estimate the expense you will need to spend and ask yourself whether you have enough. If your parents are not millionaire, or not willing to support you. You might have to cross out universities with very expensive tuition or the university where is located in the place with high living standard. Otherwise, you should look for a scholarship as a part of admission process.

2. Academic degree -- This is another important factor you should have a final decision in mind before choosing a university. There's no university that is popular in every field. If you want to study abroad to earn an MBA degree you might have to look for some university in California or Ivy league.

At the same time, if you want to study abroad to have an agricultural degree you might be looking for some universities in the South or Midland . Most importantly, try hard not to change your goal. You have to realize that there will be many more challenging factors to prevent you from reaching the goal. Do not give up. The clearer goal you have the clearer path you walk.

3. Constriants / external factors -- Now that you have financial support and clear target. it's time to list out all your constraints / external factors which are individually varied. For example, if you can't live in cold weather.

Cross out the ones in Minnesota or New York . If you have friends or relatives living there, consider universities nearby them. If you are big city girl who can't live without shopping center forget about Alabama or Mississippi but if you are a tranquil type of person don't suffer yourself with New York or Chicago.

4. Ranking time -- at this stage, you should have the area where you will be living, It is the time to choose your target universities. Choose 3-4 of them by ranking and statistic. Some excellent universities have compromise policy for international students while some are not very welcome.

This you can check from the university's student body. Do not send all application to universities in the same level. Leave some spaces for yourself. Everyone wants to go to MIT but if you get 450 of GMAT score should you waste your time and money sending the application to it?

Study abroad should be one of the most important decision in your life. It is worth to wait a little more and plan carefully. I hope you are seeing the light after reading this article. Follow the above steps for your sucessful study abroad life. Remember, if you fail to plan you plan to fail.

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Learn English Online : Lesson 14

Learn English Online: Teach English Oversea

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Teaching English oversea becomes the popular jobs in this 20th century.

The world is connected and everyone wants to be able to speak English in order to enhance their career or increase advantages in the business.

Many language schools prefer hiring native speakers to attract customers who also prefer native speakers to be the instructors.

All of those provide a great chance to native English speakers who want to explore new experiences oversea and earn income at the same time.


No matter what we do, we want to be successful. So is teaching oversea. Below are something to help you make a good decision about teaching English oversea.

How to be successful? How can you reach the goal? Before you make any decision, ensure you read below successful tips to help you succeed in the teaching English oversea career.

If you fail to plan you plan to fail.

Don't just get any job that come to you. It might be a miserable decision and ruin your whole life. Plan it and follow the plan. The next question is that what is the best way to plan? I would say you should start from your goal.

Even though everyone has the same destination which is to get a teaching oversea job the objectives are different. Some just want to earn worthwhile experience and some expect a good income.

Your goal will tell you what type of offer you should grab or which way you should proceed.

For example, if you are looking for a good salary teaching in charity school in Cambodia may not be a good idea.

You might have to look for a job in such places like Korea, Japan or some other places in Europe. However, if you want to follow your dream by paying back good deeds or contributing to the beloved world you might consider teaching in Charity school in Cambodia rather than elegant private schools in Korea.

If you want a peaceful life and want to get away from the terrible city life you might consider some parts of Thailand or small town in Europe instead of a rush city like Tokyo or some too poor living standard cities.

Sometimes, goal can be more than one. You might want a good salary and peaceful life at the same time. It is possible to have such goals but it will give you more constraints and will take you more time for the research.

Think carefully about what you really want and do not change it. Follow your goal strictly. Otherwise, you will be so lost on in such a big world.

Remember, the first thing you need to do is to ask yourself what you really want.

Learn English Online : Lesson 13

Learn English Online: Simple trick to be successful in listenning English

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Listenning skill is one of the most difficult among all other English learning skill because it gives you the least time for your brain to process.

Speakers never stop and let you understand word by word before moving on to the next sentence.If they do the conversation is going to take a whole day.

Moreover, there are hundreds different English pronunciation around the world. Even people in the same countries who speak the same language have different pronunciation.

It is normal that American people from the north do not fully understand those from the south. The way of life, climate and everything all impact pronunciation.
So, how do you overcome those? How can you understand when people speak English? Well, it is not that difficult.

This article is not telling you to practice hard, listen to the conversation tape or watch hundreds of Hollywood movie. Those are the things that you need to do anyway and already described in other English learning articles.

This article will tell you one simple trick that will help you live in any English speaking environment happily. The secret is that.

Do not blame yourself.

Many ESL thought they don't understand native English speakers because their skill is not good enough. This may or may not be true but it is surely not a good attitude.

It will discourage you and destroy your confidence. Sometimes, those natives just speak too fast and that even the natives themselves do not understand them. Sometimes, they do not truely understand the topic or they feel nervous so they can't produce understandable sentences. Have you ever experience that when you talk to anybody in your own mother tongue language? I am sure you do.

Now, you realize that it's not your fault. Just keep thinking that "they speak too fast" or "what are they talking about?" NOT "oh I don't understand them at all" or "will they know my English is poor?"

After you have positive attitude, the next step is easy. You just simply ask a kind of sentences below.

"Excuse me. Can you repeat it again?"
"It is very noisy here. Can you speak slowly please?"
"Sorry I can't catch your word"

Clearly, the sentences above blame the others but you. At this point, 99% of the speakers realize something wrong with them and they will speak again in the new way to try to make you understand.

Again, the learning part is another story here. You may have to search for the meaning of vocabularies or do more practices later but just never lose confidence to ask speakers to repeat the sentences, when you don't understand.

Remember, it is not your fault.


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Learn English Online : Lesson 12

Learn English Online: Is English School Really Good?

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Your English instructor is not a magician....

Have you ever feel like totally blank after completing the language class? You feel like learned nothing, lost money and wasted time? Well, then, you are normal.

Many people go to English school, pay so much money and hope they will be an expert when they finish the course.

Unfortunately, most of them do not get what they want. It is not all that the school is not good but, many time, the students do not understand that their instructors are not a magician.

No matter how good your school is, you have to work hard anyway to be successful in learning English.

Taking an English class is an excellent opportunity that you can be in an English environment. Therefore, you need to participate as much as possible. You need to interact with the class.

If you just listen and read you can do it everywhere. No need to pay money to take the class. Raise your hand, open your mouth, make friends with everyone, anything you can to ensure that your learning time will be valuable.

Before you decide to pay money for English class. Ensure you are ready. Ensure you fully understand that your instructor is not a magician.

You still need to work hard.


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Learn English Online : Lesson 11

Learn English Online: The Power of Read

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Among the English learning skills, reading can consider to be the easiest one. Many ESL learners or eveyone who want to learn English usually start by reading something.

Reading is the best way you can learn vocabulary. Unlike listening, you can stop whenever and as often as you want. You can go back to the top of the article, you can choose to read only the area that you still don't understand.

The next question is that how can you improve reading skill effectively. Reading with no direction can only discourage you in the long run. You need to have some guides and right approaches. Below is our tips and tricks that you can use.

1. Start by choosing the topic that you are interested in.

If you start from the topic that you are interested in you will not get too bored when you face many difficult vocabularies.

2. Start from the easy one

Other than choosing the topic you are interested in, you should start from the easy topic that you are interested in. For example, if you like history you can start from the child book about the autobiography of popular people in the history. You'd better not start with the 1500 pages encyclopedia.

No matter how much love you have to the history, you will be discouraged after a while anyway.

3. Use English-English Dictionary

It's better to use English-English dictionary. Even though it will take more time at the beginning it helps you a lot in the long run. You will get used to it after a while. Use our dictionary corner as youre reference along the way.

4. Keep reading

Lastly, as I always emphasize, do not discourge. Everything is always difficult at the beginning but you will feel better and better over time. I guarantee.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Learn English Online : Lesson 10

Learn English Online: Learn English

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Why do we need to Learn English?
The answer should be easy. English is a universal language (global language in case we are not the only creature who can speak.) The world has changed. We can no longer live alone in our country anymore. If you want to learn the world you need to learn english....

With IT, we can open ourselves to the world and the only way we can connect to the world is to the unviersal language.

If you are a business man you would have to learn english to expand your business to oversea.
If you are a students you would have to learn english for your own bright future or, at least, pass the exam.

If you are an employee you would have to learn english for the benefit of your career.

Even if you are just a street walker you still want to learn english to understand what's going on in the world....

No matter who you are. Learn English is very important. You can't avoid it and do not avoid it before you getting too far behind.

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Learn English Online : Lesson 9

Learn English Online: English Phonetic Spelling

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According to the International Phonetic Association. Below is the list of Phonetic Spelling to help you spell the word, especially when communicating over the phone. A A Alpha B Bravo C Charlie
D Delta E Echo F Foxtrot
G Golf H Hotel I India
J Juliet K Kilo L Lima
M Mike N November O Oscar
P Papa Q Quebec R Romeo
S Sierra T Tango U Uniform
V Victor W Whiskey X X-Ray
Y Yankee Z Zulu

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Learn English Online : Lesson 8

Learn English Online: Familiarity not memory

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At kinglishschool, we believe that memory cannot take you any far in English learning journey. Even though you can memorize every single words in dictionary it does not mean that you can speak english fluently.

But, yet, we understand that language is not a mathematics so only understanding is not enough as well.

So, what's the best approach to learn? We suggest to try familiarity. This is the way infants learn languages. They never sit down and memorize the vocabulary and, surely, they don't understand the logic of the language.

They hear it many times so they get familiar with it until they can present it out. This way your communication will be automatic because it is in the permanent memory part of your brain already.

You don't need to memorize how to ride a bicycle and you don't need to understand how to ride a bicycle but you need to familiar with how to ride a bicycle. Nobody forget how to ride a bicycle once they can do it right?

For example, if you want to speak english fluently. You can visit our conversation corner, read through the conversation in many situations many times, think about it, use it when you have a chance but DO NOT try to memorize it. After a while, you speaking skill will be the same as riding a bicycle.

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Learn English Online : Lesson 7

Learn English Online: Cool Expression for IM

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Today we have a bunch of short expression for you to have more fun with your instant messeging. You can save sometimes and make your sentences a bit cooler by using the acronym below. Enjoy!!

AKA = Also Known As
ASAP = As Soon As Possible
BAK = Back At Keyboard
BBFN = Bye For Now
BBL = Be Back Later
BRB = Be Right Back
BTW = By The Way
F2F = Face To Face
FWIW = For What It's Worth
FYI = For Your Information
GFY = Good For You
GL = Good Luck
GMTA = Great Minds Think Alike
GTGB = Got to Go Bye
IDK = I Don't Know
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
IMO = In My Opinion
IOW = In Other Words

IRL = In Real Life
ITS = I Told You So
KIT = Keep In Touch
LOL = Laughing Out Loud
LTL = Lets Talk Later
MAYB = Maybe
NP = No Problem
NRN = No Reply Necessary
NYO = Need Your Opinion
PDQ = Pretty Darn Quick
PLS = Please
PMFJI = Pardon Me For Jumping In
POV = Point Of View
RSN = Real Soon Now
RTFM = Read The "Fascinating" Manual
TIA = Thanks In Advance
TMI = Too Much Info
TTFN = Ta Ta For Now
TTYL = Talk To You Later
TX = Thanks
UKW = You Know Who
U = You
U2 = You Too
UW = You Wish
WB = Welcome Back

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Learn English Online : Lesson 6

Learn English Online: Why Many People fail in learning English

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There are millions of people learning English around the world. There are thousands of English schools, ESL programs, fabulous English curriculums and many more to facilitate people. But many still fail. The reason they are not successful are very common.

1. Don't try hard enough --> Think about how much time and effort you put to win the girls (or guys) heart. Think about how much time and effort you put to finish the final project in school.

Compare it with the effort you spend on learning English. It is much less right?
You will never be succeed in learning english, or anything, if you don't try hard enough.

Some people ask me "so when can I stop learning?" My answer is simple... "never."

We are here on this cruel world to learn. You'll never pass anything until you learn from it.

2. Shy --> Many people speak english very well, when they are alone, but they are just not confident enought to show it off when they have chances.

Think about when you go to other countries and meet local people who can speak in your language, even though it sounds incredibly funny. You feel so glad right?

It is the same when you speak English with English, Australian or American in a funny accent. Do not worry about mistake as long as you still can communicate with them. Remember, the more you fail the more you learn.

3. Wrong Attitude --> I have mentioned before that you don't want to be an english professor or professional translator. So, please, and please, do not worry too much about the correctness of the sentence.

You will learn it from time to time not from memorizing it. The goal is to make the listener understand you. You don't need to memorize the whole dictionary because it doesn't help in a real situation.

Look at the example below and ask yourself "Who would you want to be?"

Mr. A / Mr. B and Mr. C all don't know that the elephant is called elephant but they have different ways to say in the situation

Mr. A :"I saw a big grey animal with the long nose and big ears walk pass by me yesterday. You know what I mean?..... yes yes an elephant."

Mr. B : "umm I saw something that I don't know how to call it. Ahhhh. ummmmm.... I ahhh well sorry."

Mr. C : ........... (Decide not to tell the story to anyone)

Now, which ESL learner you want to be?

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Learn English Online: Lesson 5

Learn English Online: English is in the air

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The reason why people decide to study abroad to English speaking countries is to be in the environment that fully encourage them to learn but not everyone can do that due to cost, time and many other factors.

Fortunately, this is the year 2008 and if you look around you will find that English is everywhere.

Language school is all around you, When you wake up in the morning, listen to English radio station a few days in a week, read English newspaper before leaving to work or study.

On the bus, look around and see the sign on the street and compare with the picture they show and you will have new vocabularly everyday without memorizing them directly because humans always remember things better if you tie them up with the picture.

During the day when you talk to people or see new things, keep asking yourself "how to say it in English?" or "how does this thing call in English?" In the evening, when you go out and have dinner with your love or family, pay little attention on the english description of food in the menu.

If you keep doing this you will definitely getting better from time to time. I bet on that.

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