How to Learn English as a Second Language

Learning a foreign language is to start from listening. The same goes for your Indonesian learning. Listening to the native speakers of the language will make you familiar with how an idea is expressed naturally.

Speaking becomes your second practice right after you listen to common phrases. This may lead you to building up your verbal skills.

Most people start to learn a foreign language by studying its grammar rules. Listening and speaking practice comes later. This is not true. It’s just like putting the cart before the horse.

Indonesian and English are language. And language is spoken. To learn Indonesian or English is to imitate the native speakers of both languages otherwise you may have a problem to understand what they are trying to say to you.

Indonesian and English are alike. They are a means of communication. However, each of them has its own style that is pretty unique. The most outstanding uniqueness of them both is what the so-called common phrases.

There are always three levels to a language, that is, standard, colloquial, and slang.