Suggestion to improve your grammar and spelling?

Hello all,

What do you think the best way to improve your grammar and spelling? Any tips and tricks?

plentiful of reading! ^^ grammar and syntax shall be learnt inductively.

actually i'm not really like english but let us try to bud and sow our interest upon this lingua franca

for me, i love to do these:
1.listen to english song-by doing so,we will enjoy to the melody and of coz we'll try our best to understand d lyric.so, indirectly we're improving our english

2.watch english movies..it's so enjoyable

3.write english essay

4.speak in english..just speak and ignore grammar mistakes or whatsoever..juz talk

5.quite hard but open d dictionary if u really don't know d meaning..usually i prefer to guess d meaning based on the contex of d sentence..lazy to open dic maaaaaaaaa.....

the thing that rare bout me is that,when i got fighting with my friend,my english is getting better.this is becoz we will use english to argue instead of malay.incredibly,my english would be extremely fluent when i'm fighting or argueing in english...sometimes fighting is good n i love to fight ...ahakz!

hahahha nuff said.. to improve practice.. practice n more practice...

frankly to say.. i used to post my posting using english (becoz b4 i met putera i was in motortrader... 100% english n some say chinese slang hahha..) so cannot help myself liao...

n slowly i posting in malay... now i lost my touch in english writing (sigh!)

luckily putera have this english corner... pls use this corner wisely as u can practice here probably not speaking but makes ur writing better

(think mod will warn me dis time for using lots of short forms... used to hav 1 huhuhu)

Yerp, practice makes perfect! However, if i write something (usually newsletter, article) there will be a lot of grammar and spelling errors. yeah, i prefer to post reply or thread in english so i can keep improving.

i do like watching english movie without any subtitles, so that i can learn to hear what they talking. however this kinda hard cos of their dialect.

like in our country, we have "bahasa pasar" and "bahasa negeri".

hello..

hardly to say.. i honestly not good in english...

but..i really want to be good in english

and i hope my lovely sons n daughter

not even can talk in english but smart in writing..

thanks to you guys and girls..specially to PUTERA

remember ya. English language is no longer owned by English. Even Americans have not been using it for years! (lol) ^^ speaking of language, errors are inevitable. do not condemn grammar errors - morphological or syntactical or semantical ones..instead, try to learn from those errors. therefore your skills will be improved intrinsically. trust me. ^^

honestly look the book called DICTIONARY..
will improve your learning in word first.

Ignore others! Just ignore what people around you say. If they were about to condemn you, be it. Just ignore it.
Those guys are the barrier to you to improve your english. Yes especiall "Malay", they used to condemn their friend who learn in english. (Try to speak english among your "Malay" people [Malay to Malay conversation]). What do you think they will say about you?

-Poyo?
-Poser?
-Blagak?
-etc...

Don't feel shy about it, industry outside now days expecting their employee to have a good in english, especially in communication. Sit and think.

haha nice one.. to szainizam... it is easy to each ur childrens in early stages rather wait for the teachers at schools. my bro.. well he is not the smartest... but his english is quite good.. it is becoz my mum used to talk in english when he was in kindergarden... frankly say.. my mum isnt gud either...

my point is... teach them in early stages...

teri-chan wrote:haha nice one.. to szainizam... it is easy to each ur childrens in early stages rather wait for the teachers at schools. my bro.. well he is not the smartest... but his english is quite good.. it is becoz my mum used to talk in english when he was in kindergarden... frankly say.. my mum isnt gud either...

my point is... teach them in early stages...

that's rite!! children are better learners than adults, especially in terms of learning and acquiring language(s) and accent. once they have developed private speech, monitor their progress and do scaffolding. haa.. towards the better English, and beyond~

Reading! Read the english newspaper. Instead you're improving your english grammar and spelling, you can gain a lot of knowledge from that.

Chatting, seems mIRC are no longer popular... posting (english) in forum will help you a bit.

Get someone to assist you! Ask for someone opinion about your english (grammar, spelling, etc)

i remember there is 1 family i met in Alamanda... their parents have 1 day english speaking whereby mode of language only english...

i was shock coz the children speak english in britsh accent... or izzit american? no.. it's british accent... n it's a Malay family...

wow... even my english doesnt sound gud like that.. mine in chinese slang hahah...

congrate!

i like this place! but i can't stop my legs to run nowhere...

keep it up guys!

a suggestion. try British Council. register as member, or at least learn from them indirectly. ehehe. alternatives, you can go to BBC.com or VOA.com. there you can listen to news and audio articles, and therefore you can learn their accents!

wow! british accent...hard to speak like that... i dunno my accent are more to what... lol

for me...i love to see beckham talking....wow very hot accent...i think it's one of british accent...

it is a british accent... i know there's 1 guy from my ofis when he speaks totally in british accent... probably he's from UK department whereby he have to deal wif UK customer... now he's in malaysia dept... still his english is like a song to me hahaah...

assalamualaikum...

remembered one of my lecturer who speaks in british accent...

no offense... hate the ausie accent... or malaysian ppl trying to speak like one.. i think ausie accent suits to ausie ppl only...

try aussie accent on this line : it is a good day today.. you'll hear: it is aei gud dai tu dai... ^^ currently i'm working on my accent. ministry and BPG want english teachers to be fluent and also acquire the accent.. haih2.. got a twisted tongue. huhu

hahah u wish to work with call center izzit? heheh as for me.. speak clearly n loudly is enuff.. the accent just add the flavour to it. mway.. what's wrong wif malaysian accent? i'm proud to it hehehe...

ya la...me oso use manglish what... no spin2, no drag2...as long as others can understand u, and u can get what people are trying to say...enuff la rite? huhu. true2. but it depends. for me, as im going deeper into the english language, i can see the relevance of acquiring the language as close to the native speaker as possible..hee. plenty of reasons i perhaps. huhu. neway, it's just me aa..my humble opinion. ^^

grammar n spelling. hm...songs n lyrics? proper ones of course... hip hop songs always abandon the correct structure...ish..huhu