Learning English One Step At a Time!!!

by Marc Anderson

Learning a new language is a lot like learning to ride a bicycle.  The student starts out with zero knowledge and slowly increases that knowledge so that they are no longer a beginner but rather an expert.

We have a lot of beginner students coming through our program here at TalktoCanada wanting to become expert English speakers.  They generally contact us the same way and tell us their goals which are very similar to the vast majority of our students — which is to speak as well as a native speaker.  Students need to change their idea of success when they are first starting out.  Instead of asking how fast or quickly they can become a fluent English speaker, they should be asking how long will it take to move to the next level.  For a beginner speaker this would mean no longer being a beginner but having a novice-intermediate understanding of English.  I am not saying that students shouldn’t strive to become very good at English, but take it one step at a time.  Like a baby learning to crawl and then eventually learning to walk…rarely do babies skip a step in development.  During your English learning don’t expect to  become an expert quickly, this takes time, patience and perseverance.   Our online English program can definitely help somebody but if you don’t have time, patience and perseverance, the TalktoCanada program won’t get you very far.

So when your serious about improving your English, focus on something within reach and which is achievable as well as realistic.  This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t focus on becoming an advanced speaker, just don’t forget like a baby you need to crawl before you can walk or like riding a bike, you need to start with training wheels.