Improve your professional English

Improving professional English skills and start speaking fluently, becomes one of challenges that everyone is trying to achieve it for thousands of reasons.
This language has an important mark on all the areas of life from education, media, business and trade. The main reason why English becomes a global language is the British empire which covered 25% of the earth's surface, and forced the countries to speak English rather than their native language. So why we have to learn and this language until nowadays ? check out the reasons below than you will find out.


 Why is it important to learn English :

 There are tonnes of reasons why this language is necessary for everyone to learn, so I will try to mention only some of them, because almost anyone can tell the importance of this language in our life.

Education : thousands of schools and universities from all over the word offer programs and scholarships. But there are plenty of conditions to be excepted in one of them, the main one is you have to speak English.

Business : if you're a business owner or an employee, speaking English would be your key for many opportunities and promotions in your job because English is the language of business for any country in the world.

Media and internet : the most top movies, TV shows, books and music are written and produced in English because of the prominence of Hollywood in global media. The something for internet, almost 1 billion users are typing and chatting in English, in addition reading articles, watching YouTube videos, checking website and apps all this possibilities are available only if you can understand English.

Traveling : one of the fun things in life is that you can take a break from your stressful life and take trip to any place in the wold, that's a very enjoyably adventure. But imagine you're Chinese and you're visiting Spain without learning English, how could you even talk to the hotel receptionist ?


How can you improve your English ?

 There are almost 1.75 billion people around the world speak this beautiful language. And for people who do not speak English it could be a big challenge for them to improve their professional English through several ways. But sometimes it couldn't be enough, so in this lines I will mention some easy and free methods that are certified by experts and polyglots from all over the world.

• There is only one thing you should do to improve your English skills, and probably most of people forget about it or underestimate it : practice / just talk. Stop whining and get out from your comfort zone, talk with yourself in the shower, in your way to work, just do it regularly at least 10 minutes a day.

 • Change the language on your phone and computer to English, as well as your social Media accounts from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter... This might be difficult in the beginning, but you will and up with a large vocabulary skills.

• Listen to music in English and learn the lyrics of your favorite songs and sing it out loud. No matter how you were embarrassed with your voice, don't care just sing.

• Watch news, movies and series all in English. Mix your learning program with a lot of fun and watch children's cartoons, believe me it's one of the best methods because children TV programs are made to teach language in fun way.

• Reading books, novels, magazines... Improve your pronunciation skills, and with the time you will start speaking fluently.

• Get used to pressure, accept that you might feel nervous while communicate in English. Tell yourself that you're going to make mistakes all the time, because you're learning it's totally normal.

• Find a partner. It's very important to communicate with others whether they are natives or learners like you. The common website to get a partner or a teacher is italki but it's not. free it between 10 $ to 30 $ for an hour, which is not possible for everyone.
But there are many ways to get a language partner for free, you can use Facebook groups or any social media platform to find one. I recommend linguaholic which is one of the greatest language forums that has a language exchange corner, you can find lots of people there looking for partners to practice for free.

• This is a list of some apps and games that are going to give you extra help in your learning journey, and they are totally free :

_ Speak English conversation.
_ LingQ - language learning.
_ Duolingo - learn languages for free.
_ Improve English : world games.
_ Grammarly (improve your writing and make fewer mistakes).

popular and easy books to learn English :

 Who can denies the merits of books in any learning process in our life. No matter how much we use our smartphones or computers, books were and still the best companion for us. So I came up with some popular, easy and fun books that will certainly help you improve your English in a very smooth way. These books are graded from the easiest to the hardest so it will be a good challenge if you can read them all.

(you can get these books by clicking on the links to get straight to the purchase page on Amazon).

 _James and the giant peach :

https://amzn.to/3cPPW6J


One of the popular children's novels, written by Roald Dahl a British author in 1961. The story about an orphan who's name is James lives with his two cruel aunts. James's life suddenly changed when he met an old man who gave him a packet of magical green objects.

_Charlotte's web :

https://amzn.to/2VwJImd


Another great classic novel, Charlotte's web is gentle story with kindly wisdom about love and friendship. This book took a large place through all generations till nowadays.

_To kill a mockingbird :

https://amzn.to/3aAmQGA


If you want to take the next level in reading in English, this is your book. To kill a mockingbird one the most common novels in the USA, widely read in high schools and middle schools. This amazing story takes readers to the roots of human behavior love and hatred, kindness and cruelty, innocence and experience. It becomes a masterpiece of American literature.

_40 rules of love : 

https://amzn.to/35210L1


a wonderful novel written by Elif Shafak, a Turkish author in 2009. The story about Ella Rubentein, an unhappy housewife giving up on love and hope. Suddenly her life changed completely when she has to read a 13th century book as a part of her new job's obligations. The book was about the journey of a rather famous pair "Shams of Tabriz and Rumi".

_First to die :

https://amzn.to/2S3Hvg1


A 2001 crime novel written by James patterson, this is the first book in the women's murder club series. These series about the story of 4 friends working together to solve murder cases that's happening in San Fransisco. If you're a fan of crime novels, you must read this book and you will thank me latter.

_Speak English! 30 days to better English :

https://amzn.to/2VNAK2M


Away from novels, this amazing program helps you get phrases for everyday situations, such us ordering food, getting a taxi, shopping... You will easily improve your pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary skills in a short period of time.

_English grammar for busy people:

https://amzn.to/3cKnN0F


One of the greatest grammar books, very simple to understand. It is the best guide to avoid the grammatical commun mistakes in English.

_Oxford English dictionary :

https://amzn.to/2xJYLQB


I think that every English student, teacher, researcher consider the Oxford dictionary as the best in the world. It's an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of more than 600.000 words.

Learning Spanish for beginners

With almost 483 million native speakers,
Spanish ranks as the world's number 2 language. Well that's a huge number but is it that simple to start speaking this beautiful language like a native ?
Well it's honesty depends a lot on you, it's impossible to start a language journey without a deep desire, so I hope I can turn your curiosity into a goal you will work hard to achieve it.


1. Short abstract about Spanish language :

   Spanish or Castilian (Castellano) is a Romance language,derived from a dialect of spoken Latin,which was brought to Iberian peninsula by the romans during the second Punic war,beginning in 210 BC (a well-known information from Wikipedia) but did you know that Spanish belongs to the Indo - European languages including French, English, Russian and many languages in India. these languages initially spread across Europe and many areas of South Asia before reaching other parts of the world through colonization.

                 
2. Why is it necessary to learn Spanish ?

   There are unlimited reasons to learn a foreign language,and everyone knows theme,But why Spanish ? Here some benefits about learning Spanish maybe you know some of theme and maybe not.
   
  •more opportunities and chances in your work career or education.

  •imagine learning the second most - spoken language and being able to communicate with people from all the continents.

  •speaking Spanish or any foreign language gives you more confidence and makes you grow as a person.

  •if you have a personal passion for Spanish culture,believe me when I say that's going to be your biggest motivation to start learning this language.

  •as a language student, my main reason is the simplicity and the ease of this language. Don't be surprised when I tell you that Spanish is one of the easiest languages to learn because it shares a huge number of vocabularies and words with English, French, Arabic and many other languages. So if you're a native speaker of one these languages, learning Spanish would not be a problem for you.

3. start learning Spanish :

  Start learning  Spanish is a big project which needs a lot of preparation before starting the journey. The right preparation before you start is your first step, so make sure that your first step will be fixed or your whole work will collapse.

*Don't worry if you can't understand everything, it's the normal thing, after all you are just settings your feet for your journey.

*Keep asking questions, and don't be shy if you keep making mistakes because you're going to learn from them.

*Keep this in your mind : sometimes you will lose your motivation and start thinking of giving up, well this is a very normal thing that happened to all of us.

*Don't wait too long before starting to speak with people in your new language because speaking regularly a language makes you more confident.

*Lean words and phrases that you frequently use like : what's your name? How are you? Nice to meet you ....ect and use them as often as possible.

*Watching movies and series and listening to music in Spanish will improve your vocabulary so fast. This is one of the most effective ways to learn a new language.

4.your first lesson :

  Now after you have decided to take this challenge, we will start the real thing. As I already said, your first step will be the key for a successful language journey. So you're going to start with :

   _Alphabets : the best way to start learning Spanish is starting with the basics, understanding the Spanish alphabet sounds will make the learning process a lot easier. Spanish is phonetic, which means that as long as you memorize the sound of each letter, you will be ready to say any word.

  _Numbers : it's very important to start memorize numbers from 0 to 10 and 10 to 20 and ...ect. Try to memorize at least 5 numbers every day.

  _Consonants : if you are an English speaker you may find a few consonants that pose a problem, which include b,v,ñ,rr and ll. But don't worry this problem won't stay for too long because when you get used to pronounce words every single time, you will find our that you pronounce consonants correctly.

  _Basic vocabularies : focusing on learning the most common words. Words that you often use on your everyday conversations. You will be surprised how far you can manage a friendly conversation with very little words. Here is one the best sources of the most common words in Spanish :

1000 most common Spanish words


5. Online Spanish learning courses :

 A lot of persons keep asking about the effectiveness of courses and online learning programs and is it as efficient as school lessons. Well some of these courses are very helpful and gives a high learning quality, in addition it has some advantages that are not available in the school programs like the practice on oral and written skills, and pushing the learners to start speaking as fast as possible.

But when it comes to find your best online source to start learning Spanish, you're going to surprised by the number of courses and programs in the market and you're going to ask yourself : what's the appropriate course for me ?
In this few lines I'm going to share with you my personal experience with 4 courses that I have tried before.


 Synergy Spanish :

 one of the unique and easiest ways to learn Spanish is this course, including a lot of audios, videos, apps and lessons With their special 138 words program. So if you're taking a trip to a Spanish country, and you want to communicate with the natives. This might be your course.



 Rocket Spanish :

a very popular learning program, rocket Spanish one of the most helpful courses that takes from a total newbie to speaking proficient Spanish. This course has a strict program including interactive audio, language and culture lessons.



 Spanish uncovered :

this beautiful course provides a fun and new way to learn Spanish, it begins by telling an easy and fun story that gives the learners a lot of motivation with a very clear instructions. It has another advantage which is students can take control of their own learning process, thought is slightly expensive.



 Duolingo Spanish :

 another learning program, actually a very known program so that it becomes a supplemental program by schools in their learning courses. Depends on making students coming back every day by making the learning process fun and enjoyable, with a lot of exercises and repetitions. Personally I'm not a fan of Duolingo thought is free but it's not really comprehensive enough to become fluent.

 In the end, I hope I showed you some aspects that you didn't know about this beautiful language, and the remaining question now is : are you ready to start your Spanish language journey ?



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