Posts Tagged ‘Easiest’

Learning English Software – The Easiest Way To Learn English?

December 31st, 2009

English is a global, universal language. More and more people study English or use it on a daily basis in their online communication or business environment. Many individuals from non-English speaking countries are triggered to study English from beginning of their education. There’s a high demand in experienced English teachers worldwide. In order to improve their job perspectives, many want to learn English or are learning English right now. It grew to the most important language worldwide. To learn English on the computer is a very common strategy and English learning software one of the most convenient ways to improve its English writing, reading or communication skills. It really pays off when you learn English in school from a very early age so that you can practice and make it a routine speaking, writing and expressing yourself. It’s also easier to grow a vocabulary if you learn it when you’re young. But it’s never to late to write good grammar. For all those who are willing to extend their knowledge and enrich their writing skills, learning English software is the way to go. There are many different English learning programs available online, some more and others less interactive. Important for such an English learning solution, is that it’s fully packed with features and features sports a grammar and creative words database. The instant feedback-mechanism make it easy to understand written errors in an instant way. If you are stressed from work and don’t have the luxury of time writing your reports, presentations, emails, letters, etc. , such software serves as your own personal editor and proofreader in case you need help to check on your writings and or someone’s else work. It can fix grammar errors, check spelling, check sentence structure and punctuation, enrich your text by adding additional adjectives and adverbs and find synonyms that would best fit your sentences. Learning English software is a cool and professional way to learn English and gives you the power to instantly write error-free. In writing, good pieces of written work are all an employer needs to see in order to give you a job. In cases where a potential employer asks you to send a written manuscript as part of the interview, using the English writing software can greatly improve your chances of impressing them. There is also education fellowships granted on the merits of your written work. To beat the competition that such offers attract, you would have to be very good in your work. This in turn calls for the use of English writing software for the English speakers and either the grammar software or the English grammar software for writers is using English as a second language. English learning and writing software gets now used by many corporate executives, HR professionals, sales and marketing managers worldwide. In these times it’s very important to have a good grasp of English. Not just to communicate well on-the-job, but also to meet and interact with new people, foreigners or friends-to-be. It’s an international and global language, spoken by billions of people and the universal language used in business, banking and online communications. English is not easy to master, but easy to learn. If you aren’t on track yet, you should go for it. It’s connected with practice, but to practice is most of the times an action that pays out over time.

Why Chinese (Mandarin) Is One of the Easiest Languages to Learn – Reason 2

December 22nd, 2009

In my 1st article I discussed how Mandarin Chinese is an easy language to learn because of the lack of verb conjugations. Now I want to demonstrate to you how easy Mandarin Chinese is when we look at how they describe verbs in the Past Tense. Using English again as a comparison lets take the verb “to go” as an example. I go -> I went What relation does the word “go” have with “went”? NONE! There isn’t even 1 common letter between them! So think about how hard life is for the foreigner who is learning English that they must simply memorize these words that have no logical relation to one another. How about Chinese? SO EASY! In Chinese when you want to describe past tense you simply ad the sound “le” after ANY verb and it becomes past tense.   So using the verb “to go” as an example, in Mandarin Chinese it goes like this: I go -> I go “le” In order to simplify things above, I have used the English words of course.   But that’s all you need to learn in Mandarin Chinese.   Learn the verbs and just add “le” when you want to express that verb in past tense.   SO EASY!  It’s kind of like how we add “ed” to regular verbs in English. I play -> I played But of course in English we have many exceptions to this “ed” rule, making foreigners wonder if it even is a rule at all.   French of course is the same which is again why I struggled with 10 years of French.   But after only 2 years of learning Mandarin Chinese it was already better than my conversational French. Let me show you yet again how easy Mandarin Chinese is when using the Past Perfect tense.   Look at these 2 English sentences: I ate fish I have eaten fish Both are using the verb “to eat” but the meanings are completely different.   The first sentence is referring to something in the recent past (perhaps today or yesterday) while the other referring to eating anytime in the past, perhaps many years ago, conveying the idea that I have eaten fish at least once in my life at some point.   In English the verb again must change (“ate” becomes “eaten”) and further we need to add the verb “to have” in order to convey this meaning.   Mandarin Chinese? Again VERY EASY.   Simply add the word “guo” to any verb and you convey the idea of Past Perfect.   So the 2 sentences above would be “ I eat “le” fish I eat “guo” fish Notice how I kept the verb as “eat” in the above examples, as that is how it goes in Chinese.   Keep the original verb exactly as is and just add “le” or “guo” depending on what kind of past tense meaning you want to convey. Hopefully in these 2 short articles I have already built up your confidence in your ability to master this surprisingly easy language.   But I have not even begun! In the next article I will show you how easy it is to express Future Tenses.

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Why Chinese (Mandarin) Is One of the Easiest Languages to Learn – Reason 1

December 20th, 2009

Over 5 years ago I decided to start learning Mandarin for fun.   Mainly because my friend was already learning it and I thought “How cool would it be to be able to speak a little Mandarin”.   I thought this because I had always heard how “impossible” it is to learn Mandarin Chinese.   Another friend of mine even told me “You will NEVER learn how to say even ONE word!” The challenge was on!!! Imagine my shock when I found Mandarin to be FAR easier than French (which I had studied for 10 years and still barley fluent).   I had been deceived!!! This is one of the easiest languages to learn!  Let me explain why. First of all, when learning to SPEAK a language, we have no need to learn how to read it.   Mandarin gets its “impossible” image due to the Characters it uses in its written form.   I will concede that when it comes to reading and writing, Mandarin Chinese IS one of, if not THE, hardest language out there.   But no one needs to know how to read or write in order to SPEAK, and that’s the point I want to make here. Allow me to demonstrate how EASY Mandarin Chinese is.   Let’s take English as an example.   When it comes to verb conjugations English and other languages e. g. French, have many different verb conjugations depending on the pronoun used.   For example the verb “to be” Infinitive = to be I AM You ARE He/She/It IS Notice that “to be” becomes “am”, “are” and “is” depending on the pronoun used. Now, how EASY would English be if we spoke this way instead? : Infinitive = to be I TO BE You TO BE He/She/It TO BE Notice in my hypothetical example above the infinitive “to be” never actually changes when using “I” “You” or “He/She/It”.   If you know any French then you will know the infinitive of the verb “to be” is “etre” but when using pronouns French renders it “Je suis” “Tu as” “Il/Elle est”.   Here again French also changes the verb for each pronoun the same as English.   French also takes it one step further in complication.   In English we say “We ARE” which is the same conjunction as “You” i. e. “You ARE” but French have yet ANOTHER conjugation for “WE” making their language just that much more difficult! Now let’s get back to Chinese.   Chinese does exactly what I have illustrated above.   The infinitive of their verbs NEVER EVER change!!! When I learned this I was over the moon! One of my most hated things about French was the endless verb tables we had to learn.   There were regular verbs and irregular verbs, so hard to remember all the rules and then the exceptions to the rules!!! With Mandarin Chinese, none of that is an issue.   In Mandarin Chinese the verb “to be” is “shi” (pinyin spelling).   So when saying: I am, You are, He/She/It is – in Mandarin Chinese you say “shi” each and every time regardless of the pronoun.   Isn’t that really easy? So when learning English, a foreign speaker must remember: “to be”, “am”, “are”, & “is”, but when learning Mandarin Chinese we only need to remember 1 word “shi”.   This rule is repeated for EVERY SINGLE verb in the language without exception!  Therefore you have just cut your language learning workload down by 75% if you choose to learn Mandarin. In my next article I will show you how incredibly easy Mandarin Chinese is to express Past tense verbs.   Yet another nightmare for me when I was learning French.