Ma Kiko
It is very difficult to learn languages.
It is very difficult to learn languages.

Every day I listen to BBC or RNE(Radio Nacional de España), for I study Spanish too.
I know that living in a country of language to learn is the best way.
And we know, while living in our own country it is important that how much to soak ourselves in the language.   
As practice it, came up a problem because I didn't watch my country's news. 
"I don't know what is going on in my country" though I'm an adult woman. 
So, learning a foreign language is very....confusable
Do you have this matter?
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11 de mar de 2019 01:43
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What has helped me to learn(I have never watched news, and still not - it is higher level of language than the conversational level, and purposely using eloquent words, even though listening to it will teach you wider vocabulary, but most of those words you will not use, just keep in the back of your mind) 
Now having said this, I do not know what is your current level, or whether you study specifically to become a TV anchor..... because in that case scratch what I just said.
Films, shows (preference those you know very well on your language) ( for example for me helped the show "Friends" - of course 20 years ago - because it has simple language, I was familiar with it on my language, thought me many expressions, idioms I have remembered from the same episode on my language - and than I've heard how the English expression sounds like) worked for me AND always use the caption function on the TV.
11 de março de 2019
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Maybe try finding a news story in your country, then search to see if it was also covered by a news station in your target language. Hope this is helpful ☺
11 de março de 2019
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Thank you, Lawrence. I also quit studying English for a lot of time. Fortunately, I like reading, so I am learning from some books. I think it's better to lean like everyday life, in various ways; reading, listening to a radio, watching some movie, using YouTube, etc. And I can say there are lots of errors in our mother tongue. This is natural. Learning a foreign language is difficult like a life.

Thank you for your comment. ^_^! 

11 de março de 2019
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I've been studying English about three years.

At the first year, I always wanted to give up. Sometimes I wanted to kill myself. If I gave up, then I got nothing. If I  kept going, there was no hope totally. What I decided to do is to push myself on a higher position at the beginning. I bought several  novels by English native writers. You can image, for one page, I needed to read more than ten times to understand the content. I spent about two hours everyday to read. It sill costed me months to finish a book. 

From the second year, I decided to learn business English. It was the first time that I found it seemed that I knew nothing about English. Even I could read some books, and I could understand some videos. In real conversations. Native speakers could not understand me, I could not understand them in most time. I noticed that I had so many bad habits in learning English. From pronunciation to grammar, to expressions, to misunderstanding of phrase verbs. How sad I was at that moment! So I gave up learning business English. I decided to relearn English like a beginner. Got started with basic pronunciation. 

Something changed about half of year ago. I bought some courses in my filed offered by western Universities. It means that in those course, lecturers won't care about your language abilities. I found that I can understand almost all of content in those courses. 


11 de março de 2019
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I also learned English watching "Friends"! I agree, shows, sitcoms, etc. are better than just watching the news. 
11 de março de 2019
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