This is Part 4 of an interview I had with a student who learned fluent and natural spoken English. She discusses the things she did to improve her conversational English. I have written the interview exactly how she said it. You can listen to the audio by clicking on this link.
Do you think it helps coming to the country?
“It definitely helps when you’re in um total immersion, in all situations you have to speak English, it’s very tiring but you learn so much more than learning from a textbook”.
My comment
Total immersion is a really effective way of learning a language quickly and naturally. I tried to learn Japanese from a textbook and audio as well as a night class in New Zealand for 3 months but I could only repeat words or memorised phrases and even then did not know when to use them in real life. I picked up phrases, how to say them and what situation to say them in by actually being in Japan within the space of a week!
