hi girls!
My English is quite enough for our perfect exams! such as YDS, KPDS but as you know this exams are bullshit and many of us have problems with in English.
I got promoted last month and I need to learn English in real terms, I need to write and speak in English. maybe you can not believe in me but last night I could not sleep because of thinking about this situation.
I would like to express my gratitude to everyone and in particular to Böğürtlenkuşu.
and ı want to ask you a question. what do you do about improving your writing and speaking skills. reading newspaper in English, watching films in English... can you give me an advice?
Of course I need it. I want to learn more about reading and especially speaking tricks.
Its not about tricks, actually. You don't have much to do as I'm glad to tell you that you have no trouble with grammar or vocab. In your paragraph above, the only problem is about spoken english, in other words, "the use" of english. Think of it as a problem of practice, not theory.
In such cases, learners need to practice as much as they can, that's the only way to improve writing and speaking skills. And while you do that, no matter how you do it, you'll always need somebody to correct your mistakes, and to talk to, to speak with. That person's supposed to know the language "really", unlike you, so that you can take advantage of him / her. You can attend courses, or take private lessons in order to have that somebody.
I'll just give a few examples of your little mistakes in your paragraph above. Remember that these are not grammatically wrong, they're just not used that way.
Ok, "this exams" and "problems with in english" are grammatical ones, but I'm sure it's just because you weren't careful enough. ("these" and "problems with")
Instead of "can not believe", "don't believe" is preferable in terms of usage, and since that's an informal text, you shouldn't use "cannot". "can't" it is.
"believe in me" means something like "have faith in me", it has a deeper "trust me" in it. So it should be "believe me" in this context.
Again, the formal "could not" isn't appropriate for this informal paragraph, so it's "couldn't".
"because of thinking about this situation"
Here, "because of" sounds like it's grating on the ear, it's really formal, and doesn't suit here. You can use something like "I couldn't sleep
because I couldn't stop thinking about this"
The same goes for "about improving". "to improve" sounds better, not grating.
"an advice" is actually a grammar mistake, because "advice" is an uncountable word here and you can't put an "an" before it. "some" is okay though.
And since advice is uncountable, you can't answer like "i need
it", we also know about the verb already, so it's okay to say "Of course I do".
These all seem unimportant or not worth to be taken into account, I know how it looks to you. But believe me, when these small stuff come all together, they just make it purely visible that your spoken language is deficient.
Find somebody to talk to, and to correct your mistakes, and speak as much as you can. Watching movies is something I mostly not recommend. Tv series do a better work in helping people improve their english because they are much longer and it gives you the time and chance to get used to the characters' accents - which makes it easier for you to listen to them and grasp the sentences and put them into your mind to use later in your speech.
mesela burda ne demeliydim yanlışsa doğrusu ne?
Nereden başlamalıyım ?
Please, I want you to correct my mistakes. :)
