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Can't learn English properly

  • 12-04-2020 7:52pm
    #1
    Wexford96
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭


    Hi.
    Someone I care about is a native Spanish speaker. She has spent 12 years in the USA and now 2 in UK but still speaks very bad English and written and reading is poor as well (below intermediate level I'm told.
    I hear sometimes about alternative method sin learning languages. Not the usual grammar classes, building vocabulary, practicing speaking etc. All of that has been done and has lead to very little structural improvement.
    I'm asking of anyone knows of an alternative pedagogical approach to the learning of English in particular and language in general?
    Thank you.


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Is your friend living in an are where Spanish is used more than English?

    Watching TV and reading English books should help.


  • #3
    Wexford96
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭Wexford96


    biko wrote: »
    Is your friend living in an are where Spanish is used more than English?

    Watching TV and reading English books should help.

    No. Speaks on the phone & music/movies are all in Spanish. But day to day, there's no Spanish. Still no improvement though.
    Thanks for your reply.


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