Learning English from scratch: tips and tricks

More and more often in recent years, many of our fellow citizens are interested in learning English from scratch. Actually, such a need dictates time itself. This is primarily about the dominance of various cultural English-language products: cinematography, music, literature and so on. At the same time, many modern Russians have quite accessible opportunities for traveling abroad for tourist purposes or for changing their permanent place of residence. This category of citizens is even more interested in learning English from scratch. How to start doing this and reach good results in the near future? Some useful tips you can learn from the following article.

Learn English from scratch. Let's start, first of all, with grammar

Of course, the first thing to do is to learn the simplest rules in constructing phrases, as well as the most basic everyday words. Learning English from scratch to any decent level necessarily involves perseverance and constant motivation.

It is possible that at some stage your classes will seem boring and complex. It is very important not to give up training and not to interrupt it. It is necessary to continue it without particularly long breaks, otherwise it may be a step backward.

If you have at least some small vocabulary and grammatical reserve from school, the initial stage will be completely uncomplicated. But if you are interested in learning English from scratch, then you need to find yourself a good textbook, first of all. For the recommendation, a textbook called Cambridge English Grammar is worthy. It is very concise, but at the same time, an intelligible guide to the rules of grammatical constructions of the language being studied. Its freely available can be downloaded on the Internet or purchased in paperback. Only after a couple of weeks of classes you will be able to recognize different types of times, numbers, passive and active forms of verbs and other subtleties.

We learn English from scratch, reading books

Do not be scared, thinking that this is impossible with your lean vocabulary as yet! There is a little secret here. The matter is that for these purposes there are already specially adapted translations in which after each English-speaking phrase follows its same translation into Russian with an additional translation and analysis of the words that occur in the text for the first time. An example is the adaptation of Ilya Frank's authorship. Of course, when you decide on the choice of a book for reading, select the one that you would read with pleasure in Russian. Thus, you will be able to combine a pleasant reading with a useful study of new constructions and words. After a couple of months of intensive studies, you probably already can read without the help of uncomplicated texts.

When studying a language, do not stop with reading. Do not forget that listening to speech is just as important! To do this, it will be very useful to regularly watch movies (of course, also those that you are interested in) with subtitles - English or Russian. A good technique is the constant translation of English-language tracks. Be sure to translate the lyrics of your favorite songs!