English learning #5

Hello everyone. Welcome back to my blog. How have you been? Today I'm gonna briefly show you some of my experience helping me get better at English. In another word, I would tell you how weird I am.

When I started learning English in the first place, I heard so many lessons about stress in an English word. At that time, you know what? I didn't know why stress is so important. I think vocabulary is more essential and necessary than stress or pronunciation. Mainly because, I thought if I knew that word, I would speak this way or that way. Foreigners could understand. Therefore, I didn't pay particular attention to learn pronunciation. As you can imagine, my pronunciation is unacceptable. 

Luckily, I realized by myself when I use a dictionary more frequently that stress plays an important role. That is completely correct. Generally speaking, it is basic and really vital (80/20 principle can be applied here).

Go into more detail, When I looked up some words in the dictionary. It was not only incorrect about vowels and consonants but the stress was unusual. The thing was I discovered that once I spoke with wrong stress. Those words become totally different from other words. 

As you can also know that the same word but whether a noun or a verb, It could be pronounced differently from each other like "present" or "record". I have known that. Actually, these guys didn't help me realize the importance of stress. Those are words I did correct by using a dictionary such as "determine", "similar" and so on. These guys helped me gain my knowledge. Do you know why?

I think only those which I get or achieve by myself can be impressive on me and then I will go for it. Right now, I know the importance of stress. Knowledge forced me to learn or which I don't discover out. So, I cannot realize a big mistake of mine. I mean, I will learn better by realizing it by myself. It makes sense, right? because of my mistake, so I must realize it by myself. I agree that stress does not only lead to pronouncing correctly but also helps easily to pronounce. Easy means when you say falling and rising, words become more smooth. Let use a dictionary and check it. What you must do here is say your own word and then use the dictionary to find out. Stress contains more meaning than it was, isn't it? It is not only about the difference between a noun and a verb but also easily pronounced and wrong stress that leads to another word. 

My little hobby now is to find easy words in a dictionary that I've already known and pronounced strangely and correct them.

I would send a message to myself that "You don't have much time to do the same things. You must make an effort to reach your goals of fluent English. Discovering on your own is extremely great. Another excellent method is that taking knowledge from experienced English learners becomes your knowledge by practicing and practicing day by day. It helps you go much faster".

To summarize, Dictionary is a useful tool to learn English. Stress helps speak words correctly and EASILY.

Incheon, February 13, 2021