Learn English with a Friend
By Karenne Sylvester
This article first appeared on How to Learn English (http://how2learnenglish.blogspot.com)
Who do you know who’s also learning English? Isn’t there someone in your office, department or building?
With English becoming so important globally, I bet there is!
Learning, like everything else, is so much more fun when you’ve got a friend to do it with.
So why not post up a message in your intranet and see if there’s anyone in your company who’d like to meet up with you for a mid-morning coffee, once a week or more, with the primary objective of spending this time learning and talking in English.
Another option is tandem learning.
This is when you exchange English conversation for conversation skills in your own language.
I had two tandem partners when I was studying German and I enjoyed this activity very much.
I found them via the local library and some of my friends found theirs through the gym and others did so by asking friends if they knew a native speaker.
Whether you learn with a friend, a colleague or a stranger, the key to learning together is discipline. It’s really important to meet up regularly, have a set place, date and time and to make a ‘rough’ plan of what you want to speak about when you meet.
Enjoy!
Karenne
To read more about developing learner discipline, come here.
Karenne Sylvester is a certified TESOL trainer, working as a freelancer in Stuttgart, Germany and she specialize in teaching adult learners in the financial/ banking, energy, engineering and IT sectors.
She has lived and worked all over the world: from the Caribbean to the US, UK, Australia, Hong Kong and Ecuador.
She is the sole proprietor and webmaster of Kalinago English and author of SimplyConversationsTM, a pedagogically sound speaking skills system, designed to activate language learners’ fluency.
**Reprinted with kind permission, Karenne Sylvester of Kalinago English (http://kalinago.blogspot.com/).
*** ELTWeekly would like to thank Karenne Sylvester for contributing this article.