If English isn’t your first language, or you know someone in that situation or perhaps your children aren’t native English speakers, you’ve probably encountered every solution under the sun to becoming fluent in English. Just like all the diet techniques and get-rich-quick schemes that flood the Internet, we’re bombarded with new tricks and tips on ways to learn languages on a daily basis. But what are the real ways to learn? How does one actually learn English quickly but comprehensively? As someone with a little know-how on just how this massive industry works, let me give you the latest ways students are learning English and just where they’re doing it. Everyone is different, that goes without saying, but everyone likes to keep up with the times, don’t they?
What are the newest methods of learning English?
I’m not the fastest wiz-kid on the planet, but even I know just how big a role technology is playing in the development of the TEFL industry in recent years. Gone are the textbooks, the audiotapes and the verb charts and in are the iPad apps, the podcasts and the e-books telling you all you ever needed to know about English grammar. And then some! That’s not to say that the old-fashioned ways of learning have vanished, but technology is certainly introducing many new and exciting ways to get ahead. Another thing taking off is language exchange programmes, not full blown international exchanges where you trade lives with someone on the other side of the world to learn their language, but rather small, intimate gatherings of language learners in coffee shops and bars up and down the country, where people meet up to converse in another language. It’s social and the way of the future, surely?
Where are people learning English these days?
Because of the new technologies I mentioned above, learning English takes place just about everywhere on earth, what with it being the most studied language on the planet. However, if you are serious about learning English there are some fantastic schools that offer you the chance to learn English in England. The UK attracts over a million people each and every year who come to learn in our English language schools, offering traditional yet forward thinking methods to learning English. Find out more by searching online.
