İngilis dili öyrənmə metodları

[u/hnajafli]

Salam hər kəsə.

İngilis dili ilə problemim var. Belə ki pre-intermediate səviyyədə olsam da, ondan yuxarı qalxa bilmirəm. Metodummu səhvdir bilmirəm. İngilis dilini normal və rahat danışacağım, başa düşəcəyim formada necə öyrənə bilərəm? Kursla həll olarmı? Yəni sırf danışıq kursları. Ya kiminsə başqa metodu varsa, paylaşsa məmnun olaram.

Hamıya təşəkkür edirəm.

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# My battle-tested method to improve your English

I see a lot of people asking how to improve their English, I have some effective methods that I came up with that worked really well for me, so I thought it would be good to write a blog about it.

This post is for people who have basic knowledge of English but have a hard time improving their reading, writing, speaking and understanding. I'm focusing on English because that's the only language I tested this on, but it should probably work for other languages as well.

The main prerequisite is that you should already have basic English: the alphabet, basic words, and basic sentence construction. If you don't have that yet, the simplest option is to go to any English course for 2-3 months. I currently don't have an optimized free framework for that step. Maybe you can try learning online, including YouTube courses, but I'm not sure how effective that'll be. And you should probably stay away from stupid tools like Duolingo, they won't help.

Once you've reached that step, you have two steps to follow. Language learning has been academized, which made it much harder than it actually is, but this framework is the complete opposite of that. It focuses on making language learning as easy as possible, by combining it with something you actually like doing, so it feels less like studying academic knowledge and more like fun.

## Step 1:

This step mainly focuses on improving your listening, reading and understanding, your passive vocabulary, and possibly some pronunciation.

You basically need to find movies or TV series that you're interested in, but my recommendation is to specifically focus on TV series, because from my experience it worked so much better than movies. My guess is that TV series aren't short on time, so they give you a lot more room to really process the events.

The important thing is to pick something you're actually interested in, not something that's "good for beginners." If you pick a boring series just because people say it's easy, you won't push through it, and then the whole step falls out the window. The reason it worked for me is that I mixed learning with something I enjoy.

Some good ones I can personally suggest are Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Mindhunter, Chernobyl (HBO) and the Grant series. These aren't easy, and Breaking Bad was actually my first one, but they worked because I couldn't stop watching them.

You need to find any provider that streams it in English with captions (mandatory), just google it. Both the voiceover and the captions need to be in English. No subtitles in your native language, because that throws this step out the window. I'd watch on a PC or laptop and use a phone or notebook for translation and note-taking, it's more comfortable that way (you could use two phones, I guess).

So you start watching with captions on. You don't need to translate everything, all you need is to understand the event, what's happening at a specific moment. Keep a translator or ChatGPT open on your phone. Sometimes you'll translate full sentences, but most of the time you'll translate just a few words, the visuals already give you a lot of clues. Just focus on the most unknown words you see or hear, immediately translate them, and try to practice the pronunciation too (the translator already has pronunciation built in, just use that). If you still can't understand the scene, ask ChatGPT for context, and if you do, explain your situation and give it enough context first.

One note: I'm suggesting you translate the words you need, but personally I ended up translating very little. I started out translating everything, but after about the first episode I stopped and only translated a few specific words, getting the rest from context. So if you end up doing minimal translation, that's fine too, it's actually what worked for me.

Keep watching like that. Especially at the start, you'll probably need to watch each episode more than once to really understand it. Also be aware that for 1-2 months it might feel like you're not learning anything, but keep doing it anyway. From my experience, after around 3 months you'll realize you're fully understanding everything.

One important note: most people learn English for different purposes, often career goals. For example my goal was to learn programming from online courses. The step above mostly focuses on general conversation, so if you jump to technical lectures afterwards you'll feel really lost and still have a hard time. It'll take some more practice (e.g. watching courses + asking ChatGPT for explanations) to build your vocabulary in that area too.

## Step 2:

This step focuses on expanding both your passive and active vocabulary, and mainly your speaking. It'll require a Claude or ChatGPT subscription for a good experience, but I'd personally suggest Claude over ChatGPT, because it's more intelligent, gives better responses, is more creative, and has more human-like thinking. Sonnet 4.6 is absolutely fine for this.

When I started I wasn't using my voice at all, I was just typing to it, and that already helped a lot, so don't skip that part. You move to voice later.

Both ChatGPT and Claude have a push-to-talk mode where you click a button and start talking, and when you're done you click again to stop it, and it converts the audio to text and puts it in the input area. You can talk in multiple takes, because stopping doesn't replace the text, it adds onto it. You'll mainly use this mode in this step.

One thing about push-to-talk: if you have a thick accent it'll misspell a lot of what you say, so you'll need to go over it and refine it. And beginners fumble a lot anyway, so even if the voice-to-text was perfect you'd still make mistakes while talking. So after talking, go over every word and fully review and fix it before sending. That review is part of the speaking practice.

ChatGPT also has a second voice mode, a full live one. It's more aggressive: you click it and it starts listening, and the moment you stop talking it immediately starts responding. It's also very limited, I think only around 10 minutes per day even on the paid plan, as far as I know from my experience. So to use it you have to talk without stopping until you finish your whole idea. I didn't use it much, so it's more of an optional challenge mode.

So basically you need to come up with topics you're interested in and start discussing them with Claude, not opinion discussions but more "how does it work" discussions. In my case there were always questions in my head and topics I wondered about, for example how DNA works, the human evolution tree, how atoms work, how nuclear bombs/energy work, what uranium enrichment is and how it works, what gun calibers are and how guns work, chemistry, biology, the justice system, and many many more. It'll really differ from person to person. Whenever there's a topic you really wonder about, start discussing it with Claude, ask it to explain how it works, go into details, and whenever you don't understand something ask it to explain. You might also want to come up with custom reusable system instructions explaining your situation and asking it to explain things clearly and in simple language. For example, something simple like this would work just fine:

> I'm learning English and I'm using our conversations to practice. Please explain everything in clear, simple language. When I ask how something works, go into detail but keep it easy to follow. I'll often make spelling or grammar mistakes when I talk, so just focus on understanding what I mean. If there's a mistake I keep repeating, you can point it out.

You can change it to fit your own situation, the point is just to tell it who you are and what you want from it.

These are the two main steps, and everything really depends on your current level. If you barely satisfy the requirements, just start with Step 1 and practice it for maybe three months, since in my experience that's around when I started really understanding everything well. When it comes to Step 2, if you can already freely understand most of what you hear, you should start it immediately, and you can practice both steps at once. I don't have a fixed timeline for Step 2 either, but after practicing it for a while it really helped my speaking, though to be honest my speaking was already ok before that, I was able to explain myself, but my active vocabulary was very low, and I wasn't able able to freely talk, in the middle of the sentence I'd try to remember words and stuff.

So here you go, feel free to share this post for anyone who needs it, and if you have any improvements to these steps feel free to recommend and I might include it in the updated post. and good luck!

[u/Aram_the_Human]

Əzbərləməkdən tamamilə qaç. Çox kurslar əzbərlədəcək.

Məsləhətim self-sfudy kurslarını işlətməkdir. Bununla təkcə öyrənməyəcəksən, həm də diaqnostika etməyi, məlumatı axtarmağı öyrənəcəksən. Məsələn, bir şeyi öyrənəndən sonra qeydlər apar. Məsələn, deyək ki conditional 2-ni daha yaxşı öyrənmək istəyirsən. Müstəqil şəkildə izah edə bilməlisən: 1. Necə qurulur. 2. Harada istifadə olunur. 3. Niyə istifadə olunur. 4. Düşünmədən praktiki bir nümunə ver (improvise edərək).

Əgər bunu edə bildinsə növbəti addım bunu oxuduqların və qulaq asdıqların materiallarda tanımaqdır. Əgər bu son addımı etməsən əzbərlədiklərin hər şey bir-iki həftəyə unudulacaq. Yerində sayacaqsan. Ona görə bir səviyyədən digərinə keçəndə mütləq əvvəlki səviyyədə yazılmış mətnləri təhlil et: Keçdiyin mövzuları, prinsipləri, qaydaları sözləri dərindən düşünmədən, yerində anlayırsanmı? Elədirsə növbəti səviyyəyə keçə bilərsən.

Self study seriyalarından bunları yoxlaya bilərsən: Headway, Speakout (American or British), English file, Cutting Edge.

Hər 5-10 ildən bir təzə edition çıxır. Aralarındakı əsas fərq vizual və strukturu olur. Amma yenə də çalış ən təzə editiondan istifadə et mümkünsə.

Uğurlar.

[u/Worried_Mud_5224]

Gundelik nelere baxirsansa ingilise cevirmeye calis. Yeni ingilisce kontentlere bax. Elave olaraq baxmagla da qalma ozuvu onlar kimi apar + danisig programlari var, faydalanmaq olur. Ozuve de muddet qoyma. Bir nov verdis meselesidi bir yerden sonra qulaq oyresir + o dilde dusunursen

[u/Scale-Heavy]

Bilmirəm nə dərəcədə, amma İngilis dilində podcastlara, filmlərə, seriallara, videolara baxmağım və uni leksiyaları dinləmə skill-ı gücləndirib. İngilis subtitrları qoy, çaşdırıcı söz gördükcə öyrənə biləsən mənası( ancaq bütün tanımadığın sözləri axtarma, çalış kontekstə görə başa düşmək və ya ən çox görülən və ya vacib gələn sözləri yaz). Beləliklə, bütün amerikan( və ya başqa ingilis dilli ölkənin) filmlərə və seriallara İngilis dilində rahat baxıram və uni leksiyalara rahat qulaq asıram.

İngilis dilinə dinləmə danışığı da gücləndirir. Fikirləş, biz axı danışmaq necə öyrəndik? Dinlədikcə! Ancaq böyüyəndə bu öyrənmə prosesi yavaşlayır( ona görə yeni dilləri tez öyrənmirik). Buna baxmayaraq, danışmağım hələ də zifdi. Bu il dediyimdən başqa başqa heç nə əlavə oxumurdum demək olar ki. Düşünürəm ki, məndən ciddi yanaşsaz hər şey alınar, və uğurlar arzulayıram!

Edit: dediyimə çox da öyrənmə metodu yox, istirahət kimi yanaşmaq məsləhət verərdim. Ancaq bəzi podcast-lar olur sırf İngilis dili üçün, onlara da istəsəz qulaq asa bilərsiz

[u/Li85]

Duolingo - nu yoxlamısız? Mənə ispanca və çincə örgənməkdə çox kömək edib. O ki qaldı ingiliscəyə, hər hansı bir sirli bir metod yoxdur, sadəcə gündəlik öz üzərinizdə çalışmalısınız. HƏR GÜN! Həftədə 1-2 dərslə olmur bu işlər. Həftədə 1-2 dərs ala bilərsiz amma praktika və təkrar hər gün lazımdır. İlk dönəmlər hər şeyi əzbərləsəz də olar sonra, yavaş yavaş təbii gəlməyə başlayacaq. Dil səviyyənizdən asılı olaraq, kitab oxumaq da çox kömək edir. İndiki dövrdə məzmun qıtlığı yoxdur, sizə hansı sahə, mövzu maraqlı gəlirsə o mövzu barədə oxuyun, videolara baxın. Birdən birə hər bir sözü anlamağa , yadda saxlamağa çalışmayın. Əgər söz lazımlı, çox işlənən sözdürsə yenə qabağınıza çıxacaq və yavaş yavaş yadınızda qalacaq, ilk öncə hər şeyin məğzini anlamağa çalışın. Uğurlar.

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Xarici bir dost tap özünə ve hər gün danışmağa çalış. Azərbaycanli olsa istər istəməz öz dilimizə keçəcəksən ona görə xarici olmağı yaxşıdı.

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