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I am being serious, you have to force her to learn the language. Make her go somewhere that necessitates her being able to express herself in english
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Thratur
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GenesisX
Canada4267 Posts
On July 21 2010 08:24 Thratur wrote: Teach her Starcraft? Seriously, when I was 7 years old, I learned a lot of English from Starcraft! Or any video game really. Umm... I think she would rather play random facebook games lol. EDIT: @Vanka: WHOA!!! Thats is exactly the type of advice that I needed. Thanks!  | ||
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ggrrg
Bulgaria2717 Posts
Make her watch TV 24/7! Ok, 24/7 is slightly exaggerated, but 12 hours a day will do the trick. Just make sure that all the films she watches are in English... Also sitcoms might be too difficult to understand because of all the idioms. If she doesn't know any English then it would be advisable to grab some English teaching book and just go with her through the basics (first 4-5 chapters) and only after this make her watch TV (you would have to raise her daily pensum to 14 hours to make up for the lost time). After a month she will be talking exactly like the main charcter of her favorite show! On a more serious note: watching movies/serials/news etc. in a foreign language greatly improves your comprehension skills. Also you pick up a lot of phrases and get a grasp of the general use of many words. However, not everything on TV works well... Talk-shows and reality shows most certainly won't help you learn anything usefull.... | ||
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chocopan
Japan986 Posts
Get her to "research" vocab for the topic - you can help her by giving her a list of key words. Like if she is interested in movies, give her a list like "genre, soundtrack, actor, director, theme, plot, narrative arc, setting, hero" etc. She should research the words with a dictionary and get familiar with them. Then have a conversation about the topic, for a determined period - depends a bit on how confident she is, but say 5 or 10 minutes to start, longer if she can do it. Ask her questions about the topic, starting simple, using as much of the prepped vocab as you can and encouraging her to use that vocab. If you can, encourage her to ask you questions as well. For example, 5 minutes of you asking her about her best and worst movies and why, and then 5 minutes of her asking you the same sorts of questions. After you have finished, get her to ask questions about English usage, and correct any mistakes you observe (you can take notes while you talk; don't correct every single error, concentrate on repeated or serious ones; don't correct her during the conversation (you want to keep her motivated and focussed on communication, not grammar per se), save it till the end). Then, get her to write something (short) on the topic, using her vocabulary as much as possible. Correct this composition in detail ie. all errors. Try and do a different topic each day, if you both have the energy. Re TV and such like - that can help reinforce language learning, but there has to be some actual real "langauge learning" going on to be reinforced! Good luck! | ||
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GenesisX
Canada4267 Posts
But now I just need one thing: An English TV show with Chinese Subs! I really need help finding one, as I think this would help a lot. Please help me find one! | ||
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Vanka
China1336 Posts
Otherwise Chinese p2p? I guess it would be more difficult for us second gen Chinese who don't read chinese fluently, but there has to be tons of stuff out there. Hell, if she watches American tv (lots of chinese people do), she'd probably have a decent idea of where to find some. | ||
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
But I guess the point of sending her to Canada was not to make her learn with a website. | ||
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GenesisX
Canada4267 Posts
On July 21 2010 13:14 endy wrote: This is a great site. http://www.nciku.cn/ But I guess the point of sending her to Canada was not to make her learn with a website. Hah. She spends most of her time on the computer anyways lol. This website is great! I can't read the chinese but I can see the English on it and it seems very educational. I will suggest it to her now. Also: Thanks for all who posted! These are all great suggestions and I will "put them to good use" ^_^ | ||
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