Have you been chatting and conversing on global English salons (on the internet) without improving your English?  Perhaps your converstations are too repetitive.  Or maybe you are not getting enough repetition.  

A good English study program needs a systematic way of attacking the language and practicing it.  You won't find this in the internet salons.  You will find random conversations and perhaps worse.  What do you talk about?  Who decides?  

Instead of going to get fifteen minutes of random practice, start frequenting a site that helps you practice a regular schedule of topics, grammatical points, or vocabulary.  

In addition to your conversations in global English salons, you should practice on a site that  has some reading to support your listening (listening to incomprehensible sounds does not help you to learn).  Listening of course, is the most important, and content on the site that you can hear again and again is even better.  Next, choose a site that has some method of using the content that you read and hear into speaking.  

English listening world has all of these, but I focus on intensive listening, which will help you build your short term and medium term memory in the target language, English.  You may  already be good at this; in that case use my criteria above to search for a site with a better fit for you.  I might suggest Randall Davis' site www.esl-lab.com/  for a slightly different focus.

Of course, the global Engish salons are good for perfecting the final form: free conversation.  Just beware that they are not the perfect tool, and you need to use some of the other tools available.

A Feast of Woe

Verb List
2. Mess up     to spoil or bungle something, or make a mistake
3. Own up      to admit to having done something
4. Partake of  to eat or drink something
5. Root for    to show support for someone in a competition, or to hope that someone will succeed in doing something difficult






Jafar is deep in thought these days.  Two months ago while he was partaking of a feast with a client, they watched a big soccer game.  The client was quiet and Jafar was rooting for one of the teams.  He messed up, however, because his quiet client was secretly rooting for the other team.  A few days later, Jafar was laid off because the client took his business to a different company.  Jafar owned up to the mistake, but he is still out of work. Now he is thinking about how he can start his own business and restore honor to his family.

  

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