chinese saying: 遠香近臭

Keeping a proper distance is a proper way to protect yourself and others when you ask for a help.

In US, you have many ways to improve English. Living together is not an effective way to learn English. You will be limited to words and knowledge you know with partners. If it lasts too long, you feel you are obliged to partners. The best way to learn English is to learn from all sources, such as community services, church sessions, watch games shows, window shopping, learning some new skills like soical studies from community colleges, calling customer supports for trivial issues, speech club, and book reading clubs.

I have a tutor long back from a college, she is very nice and lovely, but she just has no technical skills to correct my spoken English. She functioned as a converstaion partner. I was just in US at that time. I aslo have kept a long time relation with an American family to intend to improve my English, it didn't help me too much either.

Last few years, the advancement of web technology and web 2.0 have enabled me to access high caliber teachers' lessons, that opened up my mind to know what I have been wrong in the past. From my experience, if you have a master teacher, you will have a better chance to improve your English, otherwise, you can improve wriitng and listening a lot, but it is hard to improve spoken English. Most of native speakers know you are wrong, but they donit know how to correct you. Only handful master teachers can diagnose your speaking defect and tell you how to improve.

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• 有家室的容易產生婚外情什麽的，社會亂呀。 -不學王明- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/02/2009 postreply 20:16:06