Improving your motivation for learning English

In this article, we share our techniques for improving your motivation for learning English as a foreign language. We used them all the time when we were learning English and we still use them when we need to boost our motivation in areas other than English.

Imagine yourself in the future

Imagine you can talk to native speakers just like you talk in your first language. Imagine other people wanting to speak English as well as you do. Imagine the possibility of writing e-mail to people from all over the world.

It is helpful to read an article about the advantages of knowing English well. You should know that it is possible to learn English really well. Just look at other people who have done it.

Remember that you are already good

You already know some English (you're reading an article in English right now). That's a big success! Now it's time for more successes. Time to start using powerful methods of effective learning. Time to gain an impressive knowledge of English.

Remember there is a lot that you don't know

You are good, but your English probably isn't perfect. You probably can't understand English-language TV, read books in English, talk to native speakers easily, write letters without mistakes, etc.

You should never think your English is perfect. Even if you are the best student in your class, always try to find your weak areas and work on them. When you've learned to speak English well, your problems will be quite small: punctuation, rarely used grammar structures, rare words, understanding "street language". Right now, your problems are probably more basic: mistakes in pronunciation, small vocabulary, grammar problems with the present perfect tense and conditional structures.

Use your English whenever you can

This is very, very important. The more you use English, the more you will want to learn it.

Because English is so popular, you can use it everywhere. You can use Google to find English-language websites with interesting information, you can watch American cartoons, you can play adventure games on your computer, you can read interesting books in English, or you can do other things that we write about.

If you do these things, you will not only have fun and learn English. If you see that a new English word lets you understand your favorite TV show (or communicate with people, or beat a computer game), you will want to learn more words. So you will learn English more, use it more, learn it more, use it more... If you also use effective learning methods, your English will grow faster than you can imagine.

怎樣喜愛學習英語

提高你學習英語的動機

在這篇文章中，我們來分享一下如何提高將英語作為一門外語來學習的動機的方法。當我們學習英語的時候，我們一直在使用這些方法，而且當我們需要提高除英語以外其它領域的學習動機時，我們也使用著這些方法。

想象未來的你

想象你可以與以英語為本土語言的人談話就如同與別人說自己的母語一樣。想象其他人就像你一樣也想用英語談話。想象給世界各地的人寫電子郵件的可能性。

讀一篇關于對英語有很好的了解的優(yōu)勢的文章是很有幫助的。你應該知道真正地學好英語是可能的?？梢钥纯雌渌?jīng)這樣做的人。

記住你自己已經(jīng)很好了

你已經(jīng)了解了一些英語了(你現(xiàn)在就在讀一篇英文文章)。這是個很大的成功!現(xiàn)在是獲得更大成功的時候了!是開始使用有效的學習方法的時候了。是獲得給人印象深刻的英語知識的時間了。

記住你還有很多不懂的東西

你現(xiàn)在很不錯，但是你的英語很有可能達不到非常出色的程度。你很可能還聽不懂英語電視節(jié)目，讀不懂英語書，不能很容易地與以英語為母語的人談話，不能沒有絲毫錯誤地寫英文信，等等。

你應該永遠也不要認為你的英語非常出色。即使你是班里最好的學生，也要經(jīng)常努力去發(fā)現(xiàn)你的弱勢并且多下功夫。當你已經(jīng)學說英語并且成績不錯時，你的問題就小多了：標點符號，很少被使用的語法結構，不常見的單詞，理解“街道語言”，現(xiàn)在，你的問題很可能就更基礎了：發(fā)音上的錯誤，小的詞匯量，帶有現(xiàn)在完成時和條件結構從句的語法問題。

只要你能就盡量用英語

這是非常，非常重要的。你使用的英語越多，你就會越想學習英語。

因為英語是如此流行，你在任何地方都可以使用它。你可以使用Google(一個網(wǎng)站的搜索引擎)去搜索那些有有趣信息的英語網(wǎng)站，你可以看美國卡通，你可以用電腦玩冒險游戲，你可以讀有趣的英文書，或者你還可以做其他我們所涉及到的事情。

如果你做這些事，你將不僅僅獲得樂趣和對英語的學習。如果你發(fā)現(xiàn)一個新的英文單詞使你理解了你最下的電視節(jié)目(或者是與人們交往，或者是玩一個電腦游戲)，你就會想學到更多的單詞。因此你將要學習更多的英語，更多地使用英語，再更多地學習它，再更多地使用它……如果你還使用有效的學習方法，你的英語水平將會進步很快，甚至超乎你的想象。