An ESL blog

If you are serious about learning to speak English, at one point you might be realized that Start to speak in English is the only way to learn, but at that point you may also realize that your knowledge of English is not enough to start. To start, you need knowledge, but to acquire the knowledge you have to speak. If this sounds familiar to you, this advice may help you to put your feet on the ground. Linguist Steve Kaufmann writes in his blog about this. I found that is one of the good blogs for an English learner.

*First develop some knowledge by reading and listening in the language, and then start to practice it, there by you can avoid the embarrassments.
*Work on the phrases that you have trouble saying.
*He emphasizes the importance of listening.By saying “Listening is the dominant component”
*He also mentioned about some inner workings of Brain in the language learning process which I hope he will elaborate later on the blog.

You can read the rest of the article here.

Migrating to another country is a courages decision that one has to make. It’s even harder for those who migrate to another country with different language than his/her own.

In the blog wetcoastwomen.com author recalls her immigrant root by saying…..
“The other arrives with great hope and expectations for a better life, or at least a different life. New challenges have to be met, involving jobs, housing, cultural differences, religious differences, language difficulties, maybe even racial differences. To be met with hope and excitement.” it continues here.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.~Alan Cohen

Toronto is one of the most diverse cities in the world. One obvious thing anyone can notice is that the name boards of each stores. The language that was written on the board changes from place to place when you drive along the streets of Toronto and suburbs. It changes from Arabic to Gujarati or from Tamil to Greek. The Little Italy, China town are the well known names for the small areas of the Toronto, and there are lots of places without specific names but condensed with people of same community. We can hear many different languages and different accents of English when just walking through a mall. It’s simply amazing.

Nowadays we hear a lot about integrating into the main stream, and I don’t think it will ever happen.There are so many issues that nobody wants to talk about raised from these differences. Will there be a time people look at different community and take them as integral part of their own?. In work places and schools , it is very obvious to see people of same community gather together and help each other.

In this article the author discuss about this issue and a possible solution.Start a diversity book club

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

~
John F. Kennedy