Learning English by... fairy tales? LOL
Recently, I'm participating in an English program to learn speaking and pronunciation, which I'm pretty bad. The teacher here is very good at teaching, he also explained to me why my speaking as well as listening is not as good as writing and reading. Actually, not only me but almost students, who learn English in Vietnam, have this trouble.
The reason is that we didn't learn English in a natural way.
So, what is a natural way? And how did we learn? :cr::cr:
Let's look at the way a child learn a language:
1 year old: Listen to others > Repeat
6 year old: Go to school > Reading A B C > Writing
This called the 'natural way' because everybody does that to learn the mother language (English, Vietnamese, Japanese, etc.). It's the easiest and most effective method.
And this is how most of people learned:
10 years old (maybe more or less): Reading what the teacher has written on the blackboard > eagerly write down to notebook.
22 years old in my case, or even older: Realize that I'm speaking a SH*T English , find a good program, learn how to speak, how to listen.
You got it?
So, I want to start learning English as a child, don't know how to read/write, only listening and repeat. I've found many audio books, at last, I chose Fairy Tale, due to the fact that, it's very funny, the reader's intonation's really smooth and... every kid listens to fairy tales.
Actually, in most case, it is not the ordinary fairytale, but modern version, because it's new and more interesting.
I'll try to keep posting 2 stories per week. This is for my learning but I think it's good for everyone. So I welcome all of you 'learn' with me and really appreciate if you contribute more stories to this topic.