Learning a new language can be an exciting and rewarding experience that can open many doors.  From new cultures, to travel opportunities, to personal growth, conversing with people in a language other than your native one can be downright life-changing. 

Yet make no mistake—the process can be challenging and time-consuming and much more difficult as we get older. To boost your language learning process, it’s essential to adopt effective strategies that maximize retention and comprehension. 

Here are five tips that will help you learn any language faster and send you well on your way to fluency.

Immerse Yourself in the Language

One of the most effective ways to learn a new language quickly is through total immersion. Surround yourself with the language as much as possible by listening to native speakers, watching movies and shows, and reading books or articles.   The more exposure you have to the language, the faster you will pick up its complexities.

Set (Realistic) Goals 

Setting realistic and achievable goals is crucial to staying motivated.  Break down your language learning process into milestones, and measure your progress as you go.  You can set goals such as learning a certain number of words per week or mastering a specific grammatical concept. 

Establish a consistent work routine, and dedicate a set amount of time each day to practice and review. Consistency is key to learning a language quickly.

Focus on Practical Vocabulary and Phrases

When learning a new language, it’s easy to get carried away with wanting to learn idioms and slang, or complicated concepts.  Instead, focus on practical vocabulary and phrases that are most relevant to daily life and exchanges. Focus on learning words and expressions that you are likely to use regularly.  Like basic salutations,  numbers, and common questions. This won’t just accelerate your ability to communicate effectively but also boost your confidence in getting around with day-to-day phrases.

Practice Listening and Speaking

Active listening and conversation practice are essential components of mastering a language. Listen closely to native speakers, by paying special attention to their pronunciation, and speech patterns. 

In addition to listening, don’t forget the importance of speaking.  Practice speaking the language as much as possible whether it’s with other budding language students or native speakers, the idea is the practice as much as possible.  

You can find other people to practice with by joining language exchange programs,  online communities, or even around for native-speaking people in your community.  Practicing speaking as much as possible will help you refine your speaking skills, improve your accent, and ultimately enhance your listening comprehension.

Use Flash Cards

Using flashcards is a powerful technique that can substantially improve your ability to retain and recognize vocabulary and grammar.  Flash cards help you create word associations with a visual image, making it easier to remember. 

If you have plans to start student teaching soon, you might be feeling both nervous and excited about this step towards your future profession. Since student teaching is often the first time many prospective teachers will actually be in a classroom with students, it’s vital that you are properly prepared and ready for the adventure, as the last thing you want to do is fail your students.

To help you have the best chances of success here, here are three ways to prepare yourself to start student teaching. 

Introduce Yourself To The Parents

As you’re getting ready for your first day in the classroom, on top of doing things like going to the spa to get in the right mindset, you should also reach out to the parents of the students that you’ll be teaching. 

To best do this, you should craft a letter or email that you’ll send out to the parents. In this letter, introduce yourself and share with the parents what your educational background is. You can also share some of your ideas for what you’ll be doing with their kids during your time as their student teacher. Along with this information, give parents a way to contact you and explain to them that you’d love any feedback they have to help you become a better teacher. By doing this, you can start yourself off on the right foot with some of your biggest supports in the classroom. 

Learn How To Learn From Your Cooperative Teacher

In addition to all the teaching you’ll be doing as a student teacher, you’ll also be doing a lot of learning from the cooperative teacher that you’ll be working with. 

To help you have the best possible relationship with your cooperative teacher, it’s important that you learn how to learn from them. To do this, try to come up with questions you can ask in order to glean some invaluable knowledge from your cooperative teacher, like how they manage the classroom, what techniques have worked or haven’t worked for them in the past, and any advice they can give you. 

Embrace Flexibility

While you might have a lot of ideas and expectations about how you think your time student teaching will go, what you really need to learn during this time is how to be flexible. It’s very likely that things won’t go as well as you’re hoping, so being able to go with the flow, think on the fly, and roll with the punches will make your time student teaching much more enjoyable and useful to both you and your students. 

If you’ll be student teaching in the near future, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you prepare for this time spent in the classroom. 

If you are an English teacher or professor, you know just how hard and thankless the job can sometimes be. But teaching English can also be very rewarding and fun, especially if it’s something you’re passionate about. There are sometimes little telltale signs of English teachers though. Here are 4 things most English teachers have in common. 

They Have Little Free Time

Teaching schedules are already busy and hours are already long if you are only considering the school day, but keep in mind that teachers work after hours, often long into the night at home, grading papers and making lesson plans. English teachers often have extremely long papers to read and grade and this can take many hours per week. Because of this, it can be very hard to find time to do the things they want to do, whether they’re needing to spend more time with their family, go to the store to buy a t-shirt, or simply just relax and have some downtime. Remember this when dealing with an English teacher – they have to make a lot of sacrifices to do what they do. 

They’re Always Correcting People’s Grammar

When you teach grammar for a living and much of your day is often spent using a red pen to correct spelling and grammar mistakes, you simply can’t help but carry that over into the rest of your life and correct people’s grammar, even outside of the classroom. This may annoy an English teacher’s friends, family, or social media followers, but it’s also pretty funny. 

They’re Under-Appreciated

Teachers in general often feel underappreciated and underpaid, and this is even more true of English teachers. While many children love to go to art class, physical education, or even science, fewer kids enjoy English. To many people, it is just plain boring. For this reason, English teachers really are rock stars, so make sure to thank them the next time you meet one. 

They Love To Read

Being an avid reader is a common trait among English teachers, and that makes a ton of sense. When people have a love for the English language, they tend to not only enjoy teaching literature to their students but to also enjoy reading it in their free time. Often a great love of books is what causes a person to want to become an English teacher in the first place! So if you’re looking for a great gift for an English teacher, head no further than your local bookstore. Just make sure they don’t already have the book you’re thinking of getting them first because chances are they have a lot. 

English teachers are awesome for so many reasons. The fact that you were even able to read this list is probably owed to them! 

According to the structure of sentence, they are divided in to 4 types. Simple sentence has a basic structure and known to be the easiest one in English Grammar.

It can be long or short, but the sentence always contains an independent clause without which a simple sentence cannot be formed.

Like simple sentence other sentences such as compound sentence and complex sentence also contains independent clause, but simple sentence contains only one independent clause.

Before understanding the simple sentence, let us understand what is a clause?

Clause is known as a part of sentence that contains verb. Clauses are also known as verb phrase as well.

It is of four types.

1.Independent clause (main clause)

2.Dependent clause (subordinate clause)

3.Relative clause

4.Noun clause

Independent clause is a part of the sentence which does not depend on the other part of the sentence and can form a sentence alone or we can say independent sentence can stand alone. Where in a dependent clause cannot form a sentence alone.

Independent clause can express a complete thought having one subject and a predicate in it. But a dependent sentence cannot express a complete thought and always need another grammatical element to form a sentence and express a complete thought.

Independent clauses are known as the main clause and the dependent clauses are known as the subordinate clause.

Let us see some examples of Simple sentence using different grammatical elements.

1.One subject and one verb

• I went.
• She goes.
• Harry plays.
• Susan dances.
• He cried.
• Horse runs.
• Dog barks.
• The prisoner escaped.

2.Two subjects (compound subject) and one verb 

• Me and my husband drove to the city.
• I and my brother went for a movie.
• The cat and the dog played.
• Sarah and Husain went on a trip.

3.One subject and two verbs

• We sang and danced in party.
• Thief stolen but caught afterwards.
• She ran and caught the train.
• He had breakfast and drove to work.

Simple sentence is not always positive

We often get confused with the example of the simple sentences that these sentences always written in a positive sense.

But sentences with exclamation mark and question mark are also simple sentence.

1. Do you drink tea?
2. Does she like ice-cream?
3. Run! It is raining.
4. You cannot complete your homework.

From above sentences we can conclude that simple sentences are not always positive sentences ending with a period, but it can be a interrogative sentence or questioner sentence. It can be an exclamation sentence and can be a negative sentence.

Let us see some example of long simple sentence.

Did you know in literature most of the long sentences are simple sentences? By seeing them we cannot recognise as simple, but they are.

Below is one example of long simple sentence from literature:

Virginia Woolf, “Mrs. Dalloway.” 116 words.

“It was not to them (not to Hugh, or Richard, or even to devoted Miss Brush) the liberator of the pent egotism, which is a strong martial woman, well nourished, well descended, of direct impulses, downright feelings, and little introspective power (broad and simple–why could not everyone be broad and simple? she asked) feels rise within her, once youth is past, and must eject upon some object–it may be Emigration, it may be Emancipation; but whatever it be, this object round which the essence of her soul is daily secreted, becomes inevitably prismatic, lustrous, half looking glass, half precious stone; now carefully hidden in case people should sneer at it; now proudly displayed.”