How to improve your language skills

In the era of globalization, knowledge of foreign languages ​​is a necessary tool to expand your career and personal opportunities. Getting around only knowing one’s native language is becoming increasingly difficult. And, although a foreign language is included in the compulsory Russian school curriculum, most school graduates have only basic knowledge. How to improve knowledge of a foreign language?

You will need

• - textbooks on the chosen foreign language;

• - bilingual dictionaries;

• - films in a foreign language;

• - money to pay for courses;

• - computer;

• - access to the Internet.

Instruction manual

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Start by registering for a language course. You can choose to study in a group or individually. The first option gives its advantages, in particular, the ability to communicate in a foreign language with fellow students, as well as the implementation of special group tasks. In addition, the cost of classes in the group is much lower.

2

The main advantage of individual training is the ability to change the program to your needs. This is especially convenient for those who have problems with certain aspects of the language. Individual lessons are also suitable for very busy people, in the absence of other students it is easier to agree on a flexible schedule with the teacher, and in some cases you can even conduct classes via video communication over the Internet.

3

Decide which teacher is more suitable for you - a Russian-speaking or a native speaker of a foreign language. Classes with the second will cost you more and make sense if you already have a fairly advanced language level.

4

If you do not have the time or opportunity to attend courses, engage in self-education. Find tutorials and grammar guides to help you learn. They can be purchased at a bookstore, borrowed from a library, or downloaded online.

5

Also use dictionaries to enrich your vocabulary. For people who speak a foreign language at an advanced level, we can recommend using not dictionaries with translation into Russian, but publications in full in a foreign language. An example is the Oxford Dictionary. With its help, the meaning of the word you will learn from a dictionary entry in English.

6

Watch films in a foreign language. Films with subtitles are best suited for this, but not in Russian, but in the original language. It is recommended that you first watch the excerpt with subtitles, and then without them. So you will train to perceive speech by ear.

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Listening to foreign radio stations can be a more difficult exercise. Many of them post their programs in the public domain on their websites.