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Learn English Through Pictures

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  • Suffering From Anglo Mania? Here’s The Cure

    Anglo mania is the most dangerous disease most English learners suffer from. How to cure this malady and what is the highly effective drug to cure this? You can solve this problem by yourself. Sit comfortably and meditate on you own language and how you learnt it when you were a baby. Can you remember the method you used to learn your mother tongue? Do all the other people who use your mother tongue speak in the same manner or differently? Do people in different localities use it differently? Are there some differences in writing and speaking? Are there standards such as polite, common and vulgar in your language use? Is your grammar very complicated or simple? If you find answers to these questions apply them to English, too.

    English is another language used by people living in many parts of the world. It is not a super language used by super class of people as most of you think it is. Even, in the United Kingdom, it is spoken differently. British English, Scottish English Wales English and Irish English slightly differ in usage. British English, American English and Australian English also differ slightly. But you think these slight differences as very great differences. Don’t run away with these false and foolish ideas. We have internationally accepted Standard English. If you learn Standard English, you can communicate perfectly well with anybody who lives in any part of the globe in English without any fear if he knows English. Don’t be afraid and get trembled when somebody start to talk to you in English. Be calm and listen carefully and answer with the words you know.

    If you are suffering from Anglo mania, start learning English through pictures. That is the only medicine to cure it.

  • Why Learning English Through Pictures?

    Language learning is purely a personal affair. One can never master a second language unless one tries to compare and contrast it with one’s mother tongue. That is the secret of mastering a second language. If approach in the right way, it is extremely easy to learn English. This article is mostly intended for those who have been confused and perplexed by teachers and text book writers, and who are struggling hard to learn English for IELTS and TOEFL.

    Before we begin to learn a second language, we must think about how we started learning our mother tongue. From the very moment an infant’s eye and ear start functioning, it begins to record in its memory all the people, animals and things it sees and all the sounds it hears. Gradually the baby understands the relations between picture and sound as it hears the same sound repeatedly used to indicate the same person by elders. The baby always sees its mother and hears the sound ‘Mom’ or whatever sound uttered to indicate mother and understands the relation between picture and sound. That is the starting point of our learning process. Picture comes first and sound follows. Sound is the shadow of the picture. No picture, no shadow.

    You have learnt all the words in your mother tongue indicating relatives in the family. Now draw a family tree and try to use the following words.

    Husband, wife, father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, parents, children, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin brother, cousin sister, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, grandparents grandchildren, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, (If you have such relatives use these words too.) great grandfather, great grandmother, great grandson, great granddaughter, step father, step mother, step son, step daughter

    So, start learning English through pictures.