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Learning English with Fun by Playing Scrabble
One most important rule of mastering something quickly is to have a genuine pleasure in it. This same rule is equally valid for English. There is no difference whether to master mathematics or a language.
Learning must be fun! But how to have fun in learning English? Is it possible? Don't worry, you don't have to put on a long face when learning English. Just relax.
You can enrich your vocabulary quickly by playing word games such as scrabble. This is a get-clever-quick method.
As you know, scrabble is a word game in wich the player has to think from time to time of the next word that he can construct by using the letters he has on hand.
By playing this game frequently more and more new words will be stored in your mind and can be recalled whenever you need them.
It is true that you can't understand the English grammar merely by playing scrabble. But, if you have a sufficient store of English words in your memory, learning grammar will be a lot easier.
Yes, scrabble can't help you gain knowledge of English grammar. But it is of great help to you in keeping familiar with the proper form of verb tenses, adjective...
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Online translators can hurt more than help
Online automated translators may be fairly accurate for translating languages of similar origin, but the line stops there. Certainly most of you are familiar with online translators such as Babel fish. However, from what I have read, it seems that quite a few people think that these automated translators do the perfect job. In some cases this is almost true...
Languages of similar origin usually follow the same sentence structure (Romance languages for example), and with Babel Fish you will be able to get a fairly good cross language translation. And by this I mean you will still have to go back over the translated piece and re-write it into the proper grammatical form.
It is when you try and use automated translators to translate languages of different origins where you can get into trouble. Being a native English speaker and working in Japan for a translation company, I often (just for a laugh) copy and paste a Japanese sentence onto such automated translators and then have them translated into English. It truly is a scary thought to think that people actually believe this will yield a true cross language translation to any degree.
First of all, most English speaking countries use an...
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