The first week of learning English efficiently
Indubitably, English plays an important role for every prospective student who wants to get academic achievement. However, it is necessary to pave the way to learn and apply English most efficiently. For me, I intend to be the linguist of English, regardless of age and background of knowledge. Thus, I have planned eight steps only within eight weeks of learning English myself and want to share this process to the others who are interested in studying English themselves as well.
In the first week, I begin with the first part of grammar. This is because we are familiar with this learning process since we were young and we are surrounded in the Thai context. For English, we have to think of Thai language and translate to English or reversely; so we can understand the real meaning.
I select the book of Essential Grammar in Use of Cambridge as the main material because it is so simple and easy that everyone can study by oneself. The lessons are arranged per day as following: Type of sentence, Noun, Verb Tenses, Auxiliary verb, and Phrasal verb. We study each topic per day and we spend eight hours daily on studying regardless of pronunciation. However, studying the topic of tense is allowed for two days.
The most important thing is that we have to repeat and recite each English sentence of each grammar topic many times in our mind, like practice for writing and reading when we were young. The more we recite the sentence, the more we are familiar with grammar structure.