Not sure if it is due to contacting very often with foreigners, I feel it is really easy to communicate with foreigners who speak English.
Today I would like to introduce some daily English while you live in the English environment. Suppose one day you are going to study in London. But you almost can't open your mouth to talk in English. What kind of sentences or words you have to learn?
I would try to use easy words and common steps when you get into the strange city.
For the first thing, you have to get the visa. I would skip the necessary English while you apply for the visa. So now you have got the visa. You book the freight ticket to London. Now the plan reaches London. You are in the row of people of passing the Custom. You need fill the sheet. You would better learn the words on the sheet firstly. But now there are also Chinese version on the back.
Now you have successfully got into London.The most easy way to get your house or school is taking a taxi. And there is also the easiest way to get your destination is print the address of your house or school before leaving China. And when you get on a taxi, you just pass the address card to the driver. Or one sentence would be helpful.
Could you help take me to this place?
If you have the confidence of having the ability to travel by bus or underway. Then you need more words and sentences.
Get the map of London city.
Know very well of the direction.
Have the ability to ask for the help from the walker on the roads.
If you want to do in this way, you must do the research in China. It is to do with the names of roads and CBDs, You need learn it firstly one by one.
At this stage, I would like to propose some sentences which would be used when you need turn to the walkers for the help.
Hello, could you help me?
I want to go toCambridge University. Am I in the right direction? / Could you let me know which bus I should take?/Could you help let me know which line of underway is the closest way to reach?
Actually, there are more you need to learn. While if you can't get what they are talking, no matter how you could propose your questions to them it is useless.
So No. are the very basic English you need learn. And also you need know how to say Monday to Sunday, and Jan. to Dec.
Morning, noon, evening and night are also the necessary words.
Now we could turn to the eating. Congratulation, you have reached your house. And you are planning to go around for eating sth.
Pass the step of your difficulty to get the location. Now you have been in a supermarket. Oh, it is really easy. Just choose what you need and get in the row of people who are paying.
Now you have got what you need from the supermarket. And you need go to the restaurant for the lunch. If you go to the western restaurant, the most difficulty is to understand the menu. Most times, the pic. on the menu would be lying. So you have to learn the necessary words for what kinds of food you would prefer. It is very easy for you to search on the website by "Western menu" and get the words.
Learning a language, the most important thing is to be in that environment. If every day you hear English words and sentences, no doubt you will be familiar with it and master it. So don't be embarrassed to open your mouth and speak in English. This is the first step to learn English and it would help you contact with English speakers easily. But there is one more point which I also have not mastered until now. It is how to use the slang. I would like to share with you an embarrassing story. Once I took part in a meeting.Most of joiners are English-speakers. In the meeting, a foreigner made a joke. Other foreigners were laughing except Chinese joiners. I felt in loss and embarrassed. For this moment, I think I was funny as I pretended to understand and laughed together with them.
So do not wait to learn until you need to use. Just learn when you are free. The more you learn, the more you will find you need to learn.
Hope it is helpful to you. Good night.
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