Here are a few tips we've put together to help you learn English well.

■Speak,speak,speak!

Practise speaking as often as you can---even speaking to yourself is good practice.

Try recording yourself whenever you can.Compare your Pronunciation with the master version,see how you can do better and have another go.If you do this several times,you will find that each version is better than the last.

■Why not learn with someone else?

It helps if you can learn with someome else.If you can persuade a friend or family member to study with you,it will make you keep working.Agree times to meet and set goals for the week,and test each other regularly.

■Don't get stock by a word you don't know.

Practise improvising ways of getting your meaning across when speaking spontaneously,even if you don't know the exact words or phrases.Think of things you mighe want to say whenever you have spare time.A basic example is the use of tense.If you don't know the past tense but want to talk about yesterday,use the verb in the present word for"yestersay".Use facil expressions,hand morements,anything to get your meaning across.

■Language learning is also about intuition.

Guesswork is an important strategy in learning a new language.When listening to recorded material,you aren't expected to understand everything first time round.If you play the same piece several times,you will most probably understand something new each time.Learn to make maximum use of all the clues you can pick up.For example,what do they speaker sound like?Happy?Angry?Calm?etc.

■Build up your vocabulary.

A wide vocabulary is the key to successful language learning but not try to learn too much at once.It's best to study frequently,for short periods of time.Take a maximum of six or senven items of vocabulary and learn them.Put them into sentences to fix them in your mind,then come back to them later.Much of the vocabulary in the course is presented by topic.

■And above all.have fun!