From the background. As we know, that nowadays many kind of vacancy job that needs an employee who’s be able to use English fluently. This requirement has been exist in almost of every vacancy job. Why is it suppose to be like this? Yes, because English was International language. That means, English was used in every country in the world. So when you visit any country for example, France. and then you don’t know to speaking French, so you may use English to communicating each other. And it’s also happened in Indonesia.
Along with the time, there are many companies or industries in Indonesia who have a work relationship with foreign countries. So the employees are automatically must be able to use English to make them easier carry out their jobs, such as answer the telephone from foreign guest, make a deal with foreign company , presentation, have a talk and so on.
Not only in the occupation, but we also need English in our daily activity. As we can see, that there are many foreign citizens who have lived in our country, especially in Jakarta and Bali. It’s not impossible if one day they asking or greeting or even talking to us with using English. So it is mean that we must know how to communicate in English, either to speaking, reading, writing or listening.
I think that we all know about it. But until right now, there are still some people who don’t care about it. Or may be they just don’t know how to learn. But often, there are some people who already know about using English but they just don’t confident with their skill. So I think, that the people just have to improve a little more of their English.
There are many ways to improve our English, but I just choose the simplest thing of it. for example :
1. *Often to read any advertisement in the street, in magazine, in television etc. at first when we see the adv, maybe we don’t know the meaning of it. But we certainly will often see the advertisement, and then we can automatically remember the words, and then getting curious to know the meaning of that words. Then we can find it on dictionary. So with that, we can know the words that most uses in the public.
2. *Often to listening to the west songs. This is same as the method above-- listen to the music, remember the lyrics, curious the meaning of it, and then find the words on dictionary. But It’s better. Why? Because we can easier to remember something when it’s accompanied by the instrument of the music. So with that, we can know many new words from the lyrics and we also can know how to make the sentence of it, plus we can know how to pronounce the words.
3. *Often to updating our activity or status on social network by using English. It is a very simple way to improve our English, I guess. Because I often do that too. So when we want to write something and sometimes we don’t know what is the best word to make a sentence, we are certainly find out the words from dictionary. Or sometimes we just have to checking for the best sentence composition in google translate. So with that, we can browse many words and it’s of course can improve our English.
4. *And the last one, is often to speak English with everyone you’ve met. Everyone. Either your Mom, Dad, Sister, Friends, Lecture and so on. Remember, practice make us perfect. With more practice, we can build our confidence in front of the public.
From the examples above, we already improve our English by speaking & listening (when we listen to the music), by reading (when we read any adv), by writing (when we updating status). So it’s very simple isn’t? I’m sure that it’s really worth for us and I’m sure that you can try it by yourself start from now. Good luck!
