As you may know, I taught English in Prague for many years.
Whenever I met a Czech or Slovak who had really good English, usually it was because they had lived in the US or UK or Australia.
Usually, they didn’t need my lessons. So my conclusion was, living abroad is a great way to master English.
But 2020 had one more surprise for me….
After I launched The Society and The Vig Store, I saw that many of my students were living in the US and UK.
“Very interesting,” I thought. “If they’re surrounded by English, why do they need me?”
Can you answer that question?
Are you currently, or have you ever, lived in the US, UK, Australia, etc.?
What was/is your experience?
What are the challenges you have now that didn’t exist before you moved?
Please share your comments below.
Thanks!
I would like to express my opinion about your interesting question regarding your students/ users of your educational program that are surrounded by English environment, living permanently in US, England, Australia etc.
Fact is that your program is high qualitative package for making remarkable progress in English knowledge.
It is not necessary to be professional in area of teaching lenguages to detect easy the high potential of your learning program and variety of available supporting tools.
On the other side the key question is what is the quality of the environment that your students are surrounded in US, England, Australia etc.?!!
Maybe they don’t have the opportunity to practice grammaticaly correct English, if hypothetically they are surrounded by slangs, gramatically incorret and hard to understand English speaking. So, in need for fundamental and comlete approach, they use your promoted concept of learning.
Secondly people all over the world have hiper dynamic daily routine, so using different digital platforms for educational purposes is common accepted, quick, effective way for making progress in concrete topic/subject of interest, and the most important that kind of learning saves precious time for the users.
Third reason could be of course the potential risks of COVID-19. There is a possibility that your students from US, England, Australia etc. could prefer/ tent to restrict their contacts on necessary level and use safer way to make an improvement in English using the potentials of your digital learning platform.
Very analytical. Thanks!
Having been lived or living in English speaking countries, do not guarantee anyone to have good English, especially when the opportunities to speak English or to have native speakers friend are limited, especially with reducing accents. In 2020, I noticed that virtual English lessons are available with different models and presentation, they are interesting, affordable, and hopefully effective .
Thanks for the reply. But if all you need to do for English practice is to go outside and to the store or Starbucks, aren’t the opportunities unlimited….?
I don’t agree that staying in UK or US will make a person to be fluent in English. It will only give you the opportunity to interact with the native speakers of English language. But if you don’t spend much time having a conversation with the native speakers, you will end up as lower intermediate learner. But if you want to be much more fluent, you need to join a game club e.g table tennis club. This will give you more opportunity to have long term conversation with the people in the club. A person will gain huge improvement in the Language in just a few months. But if most of your time living in this country was spent indoor, then the opportunity to improve on the language is less because of less interaction with people.
The best way to improve your English, is to always narrate stories in English when ever you find yourself within a group of people. Doing so will help a person have a positive improvement in the language, because the opportunity to be corrected in terms of grammar is very high
Join a club-good idea!
I agree with these idea because if you have exposure to communication day to day with native peoples you can easily improve your speaking skills.especial when you live as best friends.
I would like to express about my opinion most of the people want to speak as like as native language but they failed to speak. So, we are thinking if we learn to Vig method most probably it will be possible to speak as native way.
I am very glad to send my comment to my best teacher English i am living in africa – somalia-mogadisho, really irs good for me to get this chance ana giving thanks to you actualy i feel better as i was before at least i trys to speak english thans .
Hi , I have not lived in abroad . But some how i can answer this question.
To write required structured English. If we are very good in English the confidence level would come automatically. If we are not good , i mean few people good but not in grammar , just like that they talk without rules ,while writing we face that issue . So for that need guidance or training from good organization/people like you.