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As many languages, English is divided to Formal English and Informal English.

Formal English is the one used in schools, when you write letters....

Informal English is the one spoken in everyday life. Native speakers, American children speak this kind of English. Informal English is also called "Casual English" or "Everyday English".

For you as an English student: which English should you learn? Everyday English or Formal English?

Well the answer is very simple: the best decision is to learn both!

Many English students confuse this question ( which English should I learn: formal English or informal English?) with: which English should I start to learn first?

For the first question, the answer is simple: learn them both.

But for the second question, there are more details:

Well, it is a little bit difficult to decide whether you should start with casual English or formal English. Some English teachers say: "start with formal English, so you can get a job, writer administrative letters..." and some other English teachers say: "no, start with everyday English, so you can speak like an American or like native speaker, you can understand native speakers..."

For me, as an English teacher, I won't tell you to start with formal English or informal English, but I'm going to tell you, according to your case, which English should you start with:

What is your goal when you're learning English? why are you learning English? are you learning English for business? for your studies? to get the TOEFL? to speak English?

As mentioned, it depends only on you. I'm going to explain some details for you and I think you will immediately decide yourself which English you should learn:

If your goal is to pass an English test, for example to get a job, I mean a formal test of course, then you should learn formal English and once you get a good level, you start to learn casual English.

If your main goal is to speak with native speakers then you should start with everyday English and once you speak like native speakers, you start to learn grammar and formal English.

OK, and if you don't have a goal, or you don't know what to do?

If you have time (you're just learning English to have fun) and you don't care if you learn formal English first or casual English, I recommend that you begin with "everyday English". I chose this for two reasons:

1-When an American child starts to learn English, he first learns everyday English, and once he can handle it, he starts to learn grammar and formal English.  And remember our rule: you should learn English like children.

2-Even in business nowadays, they don't use formal English. Formal English is going to be useless step by step. Try to listen to English radios or to the News and you will see that the English they are using is not formal; they're using casual English!

If you can't know which English they are using, you probably don't know what Formal English and Informal English really are! That why in the next article I'm going to talk about the differences between Formal English and casual English, with examples... You will finally know which English someone is using when he speaks... I think you'll love everyday English rather than formal English. I hope you won't miss the next article.

In this article, we are not going to learn English, I'm just going to describe for you what will you find in this blog the next times you'll visit it. Believe me, this work is only to help you improving you English. So take about five minutes to read this article to know what are you learning and to don't get LOST next time.

The last time, I added a section named "English Grammar", you will find there grammar lessons about everything related to English grammar like the past tense...etc

The section English Grammar is not for every English student, It's only for a specific kind of students, if you want to know if it's good for you or now you can read this article: English Grammar.

Notice that I used the level at the beginning of the article (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
Articles for beginners are a little bit long in order to explain the same idea many times, I use simple vocabulary. Articles for Advanced Students are Shorter, I use words that are a little bit difficult.

We continue to talk about general tips on how to learn English, how to improve your English...etc you'll find it at the section named English tips.

In the English bonus section you will find texts in English, they are not about English grammar or about English learning, they are only there for reading in English to improve your spelling and vocabulary.

There are many other sections that I won't describe here, like English books where you can find a new English book each one or two months...etc you can view all the sections if you want.

So, read only the articles that you find interesting for you, study grammar if you've read this article English Grammar and you believe that English grammar is good for you.

See you next time for a new English article, I hope you will speak English like a native speaker.

LEVEL: Beginner

Hello,
In today's article, We are change our habits a little bit;
We are going to study English grammar !!
For some of you who have read my article about English grammar, They should be chocked right now!

Well, I've seen that many English students do want to study grammar, I don't why but I've said that English Grammar is not so terrible, but it is only useful for a specific kind of English students.

So, read my articles about grammar if you ONLY believe that English grammar is done for you.
If you don't know whether English grammar is good for you or not, you can read my article English Grammar .

If you're reading right now, it means that you found English grammar good for you, ok?

So, let's start with the past tense:

We use the past tense to describe or talk about something that happened in the past, not only this but also finished in the past.
For example, if you started traveling one hour ago, and you're still traveling right now, it's NOT past tense.
But if you started traveling one hour ago, and it's finished: This is past tense.

Now you know when to use the past tense, so I don't want to see you using the past tense instead of the present or...ok?

Well, how can you get the past tense?
It's simple, but before you should know that there are two kinds of verbs: regular verbs and irregular verbs.
How can you a verb is regular or irregular? well, this is the biggest problem, you should know it before, you should have found the verb before, you should have a list of irregular verbs in your head!! (is it difficult?)

For many English students, they say: "I can't use the past tense, I can't know the irregular verbs, there are a lot of verbs, I can't memorize all English verbs!!"
Yes of course, no one can memorize all the English verbs even native speakers!! but you should know at least the verbs that you use everyday, verbs that you use in your field...

Once you know if a verb is regular or irregular, the next step is this:
Regular verb --> ad "ed" at the end of the verb, for example: to travel--> he traveled, (do the same with all the pronouns)

Irregular verb--> no way!! you should memorize them.

It's finished now,  I hope that you will use the past tense correctly next time!
If there is something that you did not understand, you can comment it right here
(don't be afraid of comments, they are so easy just enter your comment and GO!)

To speak English fluently, you should know as many vocabulary as possible. Every English students knows this, but the problem is that they don't use the right method to learn more vocabulary, most students take a dictionary and start to memorize words randomly, which has no meaning!!

I wrote these simple steps just for you. If you follow them, you will learn more vocabulary in a short time: 

1) choose a theme:

This is the first step, you should select which theme do you want to learn vocabulary in, for example you can choose food, transport, ...This is very powerful because whenever you remember one English word, you will also remember all the other words you found with it.

I advice you to choose a subject you need its vocabulary, for example if you are a business man you can choose a theme related to business...

2) Use images, you remember English words faster:

The idea of images is an old idea, but it still works. It is also used with native children speakers.
I've already talked about children and learning English in this article Some Tips to Speak English and also in many others.

3) Write English phrases:

Generally we talk about writing new English words, but here I'm talking about writing English phrases which contains new English words. If you find a new word, write the whole phrase it is in. Many English students have a huge vocabulary in their mind but they don't know how to use this vocabulary because they just wrote word lists in their notebooks. So, you should write English phrases to do two things in one.

4) Pick up related English words:

What does it mean? well this means when you find a new word, try to find groups of words that come with it. It is also called word trees. For example, if your word is hotel, you can add "room, bed..."
This is very easy, if you chose a theme as I said.

5) English words with the same root:

This is also very powerful, and very easy but you can skip it if you don't know or you don't find words.
It consists of finding other English words that have the same root (noun, adjective, verb...)
For example: to travel-->traveling--> traveler-->...

6) Use the new English words:

If you think that having phrases with new words written in your notebook is enough, you're completely wrong!
you should use the new words you found, you should practice with your English friends (here is the best way to practice English:  speak English with native speakers)

7) Review New English vocabulary constantly:

If you don't review the new vocabulary you learned, it's the same as if you've done nothing!
Reviewing is so much important, The learning method is composed by: understanding, learning, reviewing. If you delete one of them, it will become a big problem (maybe you will never speak English if you do it!!!)

OK, you can use these steps, I know you will improve your English. If you think something is missing you can tell me in the comments. See you for the next article, thank you.

Are you getting bored when learning English? You can't study English no more?
You're normal, don't worry because there is nothing wrong with you!

All human beings get bored when they repeat doing the same thing, you should change your habits a little bit, you have to take some holidays!

It's a given that you should take holidays when getting bored, but where should you go? where do you have to spend your holidays?

As an English learner, my advice for you is to go to a place where English is spoken so you will practice English even when spending your holidays.

If you have money, you can spend your holidays at the United States. You find a great hotel in the United states (almost all hotels are great in the United States).

Look to this hotel for example:



This is one of the best hotels in the United States, it is located on the famed Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, USA.

Even Americans come to this hotel to spend their holidays, if you have enough money you can try to spend some time here, it is called Paris Las Vegas Hotel.

For me, I like nature rather than the city (the city is a little bit boring and noisy) I love hiking!

If this is your case, you like hiking, there are many places available in the United States, look to this one:



It is situated in California, It's a great spot too! I love it so much.
If you want to spend your English holidays, there are a lot of cool places, hotels, swimming pools, woods... You should try some in order to have more energy for your English learning.

If you have more suggestions about holidays, I'm ready to read your comments.

Reading in English is very important for everyone who wants to learn English, even though many English teachers want to ignore it!

It's true that reading is less important than listening to English especially for students who want to speak English, but it is still very powerful.

I've already said it and I'm going to repeat it: "your first step with English is to determine your goals, do you want to learn to speak English? or do you want to learn to write in English?"

In both cases reading is very powerful, but what do you have to read to improve your English?

That depends on the level of English you have, but you should read only texts where you understand about 90% what you read!!! (do you know this before? comment it)

If you read texts where you understand only 40% or less, you will find many words you don't understand (60%) and you won't understand them unless you use your English dictionary, so you can't memorize all these new words at the same time!!

But if you read easy texts where you understand 90% or more, the remaining 10% of words you don't understand will be very easy for you because you're going to understand them without using your English dictionary and you'll memorize them easily! (That's why I write easy articles for you)

Reading will help you to improve your English vocabulary, your English spelling and many more... It's very important, so don't forget it!

Today, It's a short post but very important if you really want to improve your English.

To begin I'm going to ask you to subscribe in my RSS feeds to make sure that you'll have all the updates. Whenever there is a new article, you're the first one to read it.

If you want to improve your English speaking, it's obvious that you should practice English sometimes, but, with whom do you practice English?

If you are practicing English with other English learners like you, it's a great idea, it helps you to improve your English speaking, your English listening, you will have self confidence, you will stop being shy when you speak English, which makes a good point.

If you don't have some English friends, I told you in the article speak English community how to make some online. It's a good idea to practice talking English online.

But the best way if you want to practice English is to talk to native speakers. It will help you to improve your English listening and your English pronunciation at the same time, it will develop the way you speak English, it gets you more self confidence when you speak English.

OK, that's it for today's article about English learning and don't forget to subscribe to the RSS feed.