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title: How to learn Phonics?
title: How to Aquire English?
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- don't start too early
- Children from Finland do exceptionally well in international reading tests, yet they don’t start school until they are 7 years old. A number of countries that don’t perform so well in these tests give formal reading lessons to 5-year-olds, so it’s been argued that early reading instruction does more harm than good.


- do not learn, acquire the language like a baby
- Comprehensable Input is a MUST
- Extensive Reading
- Reading is the best way to get the inputs
- Principle #1: Learn by Ears
- listening, not reading
- do not learn, acquire the language like a baby
- no grammer, grammer is only useful when you are advanced and you want to be formal
- it slow down the process of aquiring the language, there is no doubt on this.
- Principle #2: start from real English
- why?
- the short term goal is to understand 3-5 yo kid's cartoon
- mid term goal is to understand movies
- long term goal is to speak
- if you learn text book English audio, you r learning a different language, and it's slowers to be able to understand real life English, then you don't have a learning Environment, that is cartoons
- Principle #3: set scope
- find relevant content that interets you most
- be simple and comprehensable
- 3000words will cover 98% of your daily usage of English, focus on the core!

- Principle #4: Treat your second language as if it’s your mother tongue.
- Set up direct connection from the word fire, to the image of fire in your head, not to the Chinese language counterpart Huo.

- Action #1: find a coach
- Find a person has the patience to listen to u, and you feel safe to communicate with. It’s a person that does not correct your mistakes too often. Instead, when he is replying you, he will use correct way in his answer. And he will only use the words that you already know.
- three rules of natrual acquisition: 1. No mother tongue(it's not important and let's move on when stuck), 2. No grammer 3. No correction
- Stephen Krashen: movies and comic books also works, being interesting
- stories are good learning material

- be narrow
- kids can pick whatever books he wants, but better to focus on certain areas

- when to learn grammer?
- it's better NOT to learn grammer if you just want fluency in Enlgish
- we have no time to think the structrue of a sentence and correct it before we blurt it out in a conversation. That's way grammer is a strange thing that can be learned, but not practiced.
- if you do love grammer, learn it after you can speak.
- grammers hurts your speaking https://youtu.be/illApgaLgGA?t=593
- anxiety free
- https://youtu.be/illApgaLgGA?t=754
- TPRS teaching proficiency through reading and storytelling


- steps
- be generally familiar with the 44 phonemes
- and their responing letter or letter combinations
- now find some clear audio file, listen to each words and try to spell each
- if you make mistakes go back to learn phonics or sight words

- PA is a process of practice
- make sure to pronunce the 44 sounds right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZqMuKUwyNs

- how a native speaker learn a new word through reading
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgPCOJLNePc
- NO.1 "I would not have learned that word if I had not beening reading a book in English"
- NO.2 "I looked up that word in a dictionary because it caught my attentiono" you don't have to check every word
- NO.3 "The reason why I learned that word is because I brought that word back to the surface of my memory repeatly throughout the book"
- only turn to dictionary when a word showed up multiple times

- everything start from the sounds/pronoucation
- why lean KhanKids -- the -ck rule?
- it is easy to remember since it is realted to the MagicE rule
- it helps you to turn your pronoucation to spelling?
- e.g /click/ since /i/ is short vowel, that's why you use 'ck' rather than 'ke'
- becasue if you use 'ke', the sound of 'i' will be changed to long vowel


- Action #2: PA, sound awareness
- get yourself familiar with the 44 English sounds
- this is especially efficient for grown-ups, who tend to pronounce many sounds in the wrong way already
- the A A A Apple Video
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