What is learning English?
I have been learning English for several years. For the last year I’ve been studying individually, I don’t go to courses. Somehow it happened that English became an important subject in my life. I’ve already lost track of the time I spent on this class, which helped me not to feel like a “black sheep” in the family, at work, in public life, and where I was not very active.
I think it’s all about the quality of teaching. If a teacher is a super expert in teaching English, loves his/her job and does it professionally, enjoys the process, then you always want to go to him/her, and even after graduation.
Unfortunately, nowadays it’s not enough to hear the excuse “I told you so” that you have to study well. Students are so built that they constantly want to improve, to achieve something. And that’s fine when you know what you’re aiming for, and if it’s reasonable.
Which is my personal opinion:
Came into the group and just drowned in the general mass of speech. Everyone was speaking in English from completely different topics. You never knew what language the person you were talking to was from. As a result, you forgot what you were already learning and just lost the thread of the conversation.
Can you teach in English in a group class? What for? And what will it give?
There wasn’t much practice in the class. My brain was used to working without any glimpses. And here we were switching from one language to another, and half of the group spoke only English.
When I studied Russian at school I listened very well, because I listened to a lot of Russian songs and broadcasts. Then, when I grew up, I read a lot in Russian. And today it is very interesting to hear that people pronounce English words.
I’m not a fan of English, English is my second foreign language after Russian. So there is always a lot of language practice in the classes.
I can say that I went from “I want to read and speak English” to understanding the new vocabulary and English sentence construction.
The theory is good, but nothing can replace personal contact with a native speaker and learning materials.
As a rule, students who come to the course want to learn how to build sentences and how to speak. And the main goal of the course is to learn to speak well.
Classes are conducted in the form of games and with the use of all available materials. For some people, English is their native language, but now most of our students either don’t speak Russian at all or speak it very poorly.