English Is Easy, Isn't It?

While I was teaching in the University of Mercu Buana, Kranggan, Bekasi, a lot of my college students asked me, "Sir, how can I improve our English easily?". The question sounds familiar. Why? Because, yes, there are a lot of people who have big motivation to study English, but they don't know the right way to make it become easy.

I smiled at them, of couse, because I like when people ask me about the right ways to improve English skills. To me, having big motivation isn't enough to be good at English. It's like you have a dream but you never know an appropriate strategy to achieve it.

Well, here, I have only one sentence to answer the question: "Love English". Yes, guys, you must love English first if you want to be good at English soon. Wise people have ever said, "Someone who loves something will do everything to be able to master it". For instance, if you love music, and you're eager to be good at playing guitar, of course, automathically all your desires encourage you to live by practicing guitar. You will buy a guitar, you will go to a music course place, you will buy books about guitar. Even, when you're sleeping, you will dream you're a guitar master.

So, what about English? 

It's not far different! If you love English, you will do everything to achieve it. Let me direct you to the right ways to be able to improve your English. First of all, you must buy a guidance book (Grammar book), then you can study autodidactly, when you get difficulties in comprehending a theory, you can go to your English teachers, and don't ever feel shy to ask them about your problem. Secondly, use your hobbies to support your English. For instance, you like watching movies, so watch a lot of movies with English speaking and subtitles, and then if you find new vocabularies, you can remember them. It is also good to practice the actors's English accents an expressions in the movies. Or, if you like listening to music, you can listen to English songs--it's better to take from your favorite singers or bands' songs--and then you can note their lyrics, and get new vocabularies, new expressions.

Finally, I hope this short writing can give you a bit enlightenment about how easy English is!

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