I have been in Montreal almost 1 year, and i learned more than i image...English is my second language, so i think even i can express my self in
English but it is still mot enough. I try to use
English as well as i use
Chinese... English people started their language from childhood so thst is a kind of pressure for me. I need try my best to do same work as good as native people in short time and i encouraged myslef all the time. Depending on the experence from learning second language i think the important factors are practice and confidence.
The objcetive way to improve my study is do much practice as i can. Based on the experence i learn from study is the more practice you do the more you learn. In my own experence(level 6)
i really understood what is practice and what is respond. I did a lot of writing in level 6 because i need rewrite the work i did which is not good. Once teacher asked me to do the 3rd draft i feel so sad and i almost cry at class (another reason is because i was homesike...). Furturenately i did the work and pass the hard time. After that time i anaylized everything happend in level 6 and i found that the work i done is valuable. I found that my writing skill was increasing fast and it is effectively. when i do the writing i feel my idea is clear and i know how to use my own words to express the informations i undertand and try to orgnaze. However my writing is not good ehough but i still happy with every progress i made.
For personal i think confidence is also important...The first time when i arrived in Montreal i am shy to talk to people, but by the time i feel less talk is no effects. I try to speak in public and even i can not express the meaning excatlly but i still try to say in my own words. I found that when you talk to people they will pay less attention to your vocabulary or your garmmer but people talk to each other they try to understant what are you talking about.The more people undertand what i am saying the more confidence i have...Have confidence helped me to speak out because that better than practice by myself.