Do you think we could learn English language with join mylot?
By Zhizho
@Zhizho (1350)
Indonesia
August 27, 2009 5:18am CST
Hi mylotters.I like to do mylot everyday.I reminded when the first time I try to post or response discussion,I spent a half hour.It difficult to me because My english not good.I have to open dictionary or use google translate.But now,I'm proud to myself,because I could post or response discussion only in two minute.LOL.So,we could learn english in mylot.How about you guests and to all you that have good english before,please give your opinion.Thanks.
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56 responses
@bing28 (3795)
• Philippines
27 Aug 09
Yes we could improve our English by reading discussions and responding to them. By responding, this serve as our training, Is it not there's a saying that constant practice makes perfect?
@rberon1985 (5359)
• Philippines
27 Aug 09
Everyday, I am learning a new word in the site. I also love reading others discussion. Once I find it interesting, i am giving my opinion and idea on the said topic. Honestly, expressing myself in english here in the site is not as easy as eating peanut since it is not our primary language. we were just trained of the said language so that we can able to communicate with other people around the globe. Before I am interested in learning English language, I just to talk using our own language, but there comes a time that i was motivated to learn english as a second language. happy mylotting!!
@Zhizho (1350)
• Indonesia
31 Aug 09
Hi.Yes you are right if learn english here from basic,yes,it must be difficult and if you can,it would be slowly.But I have basic that I've learned when I was student but I'm not good in grammer and after school,I'm not working.So,I have no media to improve.But,with join mylot,I could learn more.Thanks for your comment guest.
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@Rontzy (167)
• Romania
27 Aug 09
You can learn or even improve your english joining mylot. But we must post and talk at least 2-3 hours per day. You can improve your english by joining live online games and talking with other players. I know myself i wasn't so good at beggining i was just like you , i was spending like a half an hour to reply to a message.
@rberon1985 (5359)
• Philippines
27 Aug 09
Honestly, when I started with mylot, I am already happy if I can post around two to three sentences. Months had pass and I have seen that my responses and discussions had improved. I can post now 6 - 8 lines in all the discussions. Before, i just keep on responding to different discussions but now I can already make my own discussion as long as one paragraph. And of course, i get a lot of responses. English is not our main language.We have our own dialect but we are trained or educate on how to speak english so that we can communicate to different people around the globe. I know you are also different nationality but i can see that you can now express yourself in english in a better and clear way. happy mylotting!!
@Zhizho (1350)
• Indonesia
28 Aug 09
Hi rberon.Yes,So do I.First time,I was joined,I was happy when could write 3 lines but now,sometimes,difficult to stop because I want write more than three lines.I think,wow,It easy and I have to tell and explaine it.LOL.My husband proud of me too.Because he is my teacher in English.Anyway,thanks for share here.
@vingyan06 (2486)
• Malaysia
27 Aug 09
Hello Zhizho.
I admit I have improve a lot in Mylot too. Not only the English language is improved, the way to social with others is something we can learn here, LOL.
I admit for those who take English as their second language is a little tough to begin mylotting here. But practice makes perfect, just like what you said, you have practice to post a new discussion from 30 minutes to only 2 minutes. This is a good achievement!
I am sure there are many members here mylotting at the same time learn what they are doing.
By the way, if you want to improve your English, you can start blogging too. It is a way you can express your thoughts and keep things remember in your blog.
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@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
12 Oct 09
Yes, I think mylot is a good place for a person to learn their English skills. I know it has helped me in my typing and spelling skills. When I first started in mylot it would take me forever to post anything because my typing and spelling was so bad. I had to look at the keys when I was typing and then read my discussion to correct any typing errors and spelling mistakes. So it took me about half an hour to write something of substance, like this response.
Now I can type without looking at the keys and looking at the screen so I don't have to take the time to read it after to correct anything because I can now correct them as I go along.
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
2 Jan 11
Hi chrislotz, I log in myLot site frequently also wish to improve my language by reading and writing posts here. It's true that typing and writing here often would improve our typing skill and spelling as well. I could type out many words which I find quite difficult to spell correctly very much easier now Yeah, myLot is a good forum for us to learn and improve our english language if we participate in the activities here frequently
@sweetyethot (1737)
• China
29 Aug 09
Hi,joining mylot is a good way to learn English.In here,I can learn many idoms and original expressions.It also helps me think in English,which is good in learning.Im happy you make progress in English with mylot.Stick to it,and you will get more.
@srganesh (6340)
• India
27 Aug 09
I experience what you say.English is not my mother tongue and I can't speak it fluently as well.In the beginning,it takes me some time to think and type.But now I am at ease to come out with good speed to type my answers directly without thinking much.But still,I sometimes miss the grammatical errors when narrating things.Soon,I will correct them too.Cheers!
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@jambi462 (4576)
• United States
29 Aug 09
I'm sure that mylotting could help you to get better at the language or help you improve faster maybe but I don't think that you could learn the English language only by using mylot. There are a lot of typos and people not putting sentences together well and things like that which wouldn't be that great to learn from.
@Zhizho (1350)
• Indonesia
29 Aug 09
Yes,you are right jambi.As we know,We learn English from basic school until college in Indonesia.But for me,English is difficult lesson especially about grammer.So,I always got bad point.But,Honestly,I learn by watching film and my son's DVD such as Barney,sesame street and Thomas.I mean here,I could give expression in mylot and mylot could be media to learn.Because with reading and when make sentences we have to thinking and sometimes I read again and looking for the correct sentences.Anyway,Thanks for your response guest.
@med889 (5941)
•
27 Aug 09
Yes I believe it is one of the many advantages to be in mylot where we get to improve my english language too and this is something wonderful to me, where I meet many people and I even started to learn chinese after having some friends here.
@dianmelydia (2269)
• Indonesia
27 Aug 09
I think we can learn for being better in typing English. I don't think we can learn much about English grammar from mylot because there's alot of people using bad grammar here, including me LOL. But however, by typing and typing in a row on mylot, it wil affecting our writing skills. Also, by reading as much as english words, we will learn some new words indirectly. This is a matter of habit. Based on my own experience, on 1998, when the internet chatting was booming. I learnt many things and learnt fast typing from my chatting habit. So i think by letting ourselves in typing habit, sooner or later we will learn many things unconsciously. However it's a good thing for us. Good luck and have a nice day. Happy mylotting.
@patofgold23 (5069)
• Philippines
27 Aug 09
oh yes, i do dear..
in my Lot, you get to meet a lot of people...
then you make friends around by participating in discussions...
every activity here involves a lot of english, and through constant use, your english will improve ...
this is actually a good way to better your enlgish
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
2 Jan 11
Hi Zhizho, other my native language and mother tongue, English is first foreign which I like to learn. I find it's quite easy for me to learn things in many aspects if I could handle this language nicely. I'm really glad that I have joined the right site, myLot as member. Here I have the freedom to pick any topic which I'm interested to express my feeling and idea whenever I have free time. It's so relaxing that there is no time limited to participate in any activities available here.
The mutual interactions in discussions make the activities more interesting and joyous. No discrimination in poor language writing as well, and these seem like great impetus to push me to keep on writing posts here often I have more confidence to type post here after I had registered as member of this site few years back. Yeah, we could learn and enhance English language here for sure if we could read and write posts here regularly and persistently.
Happy posting
@jpso138 (7851)
• Philippines
2 Sep 09
A lot of mylot members have definitely improve their English skills upon joining mylot. So I think it will also help in learning English. We all know that when we post, it is important that we post it in English. So the longer you stay here, there is always the possibility of learning and improving.
@UtopianIdealist (1604)
• United States
15 Oct 09
Immersion into any language should help you in getting a better understanding, I would think. Since you already have a basic knowledge of it, it will only get better for you.
@AKMEDIA2 (328)
• United States
8 Sep 09
Mylot is a great way to practice english, however, what is not too good about practicing english here is that there are very few mylotters who will bother to correct misspellings and grammatical errors. I guess you know you're understandable if you get a lot of responses.
@goodfundadvisor (671)
• India
2 Sep 09
Dear Zhinzho,
That is the advantage of Mylot. Here you not only earn money but the biggest thing you earn is knowledge!!! and that too FREE!!!.
Because of the enthusiasm you have while participating in discussion, you tend to start thinking in English and automatically you improve your English skills.