How to learn English by yourself with zero foundation

It is not easy to learn English by yourself, especially for people with no basic knowledge. Only by mastering the correct method can you get twice the result with half the effort. Let’s talk about how to learn English by yourself with zero foundation, let’s take a look!

1. Listening

1. Selection of listening materials

If If you find it difficult to listen to English in the college entrance examination, it is recommended to start listening to New Concept English 2. Ordinary students can start practicing from VOA slow news, then to VOA standard news, and then you can watch some American dramas to assist learning.

2. Methods of listening practice

For beginners, the most effective method is dictation. The process of VOA dictation practice is a rapid improvement of listening level and vocabulary. This process can take several months and can be painful at first, but very effective if you stick with it.

It is important not to rely on subtitles at any time. Subtitles can seriously reduce learning effectiveness.

2. Spoken English

Many people find it difficult to improve their spoken English. On the one hand, we rarely have the opportunity to communicate in English. On the other hand, most English learners are reluctant to practice speaking.

1. Self-practice. Speaking practice can be done in the form of question types. For specific question types, you can search on the Internet to find various question types.

At this point, it is recommended that learners use one to two minutes to organize related topics, and then force themselves to speak for three minutes.

2. Follow the sentences and imitate the pronunciation and intonation to make your English more authentic. Watching American TV series or movies is a good way to do this, which requires a lot of practice and repetition.

3. Writing

In fact, through a lot of preliminary reading, we have accumulated enough materials. When writing, what we need to do is to organize the materials, analyze the reasons, and summarize etc.

The key point is that you must revise it after writing it, otherwise you will never know where the mistake is or how to revise it, and you will still make the same mistake next time you write it.

In order to avoid such a vicious cycle of results, we must discover and modify them in time, and then summarize the errors to avoid similar errors next time. After a while, writing in English became as easy as writing in Chinese.