How
Can I Improve My English?
3 It seems a perfectly fair and simple question, and it's a question I hate
3 I hate it because it seems completely reasonable but is actually a trap, because it seems so easy
but is actually a riddle to stump Oedipus. And I am not Oedipus
4 It is a question always asked by earnest students, and every time I hear it I feel that this
incere plea must meet a clear answer and that I, as an English teacher, should know the answer
3 Oh, I have answers, but I dont have the answer, not the answer I think they're looking for
3 Whatever they are really asking for, it feels like theyre asking for a quick solution that will
fix all their mistakes and expand their vocabulary in casy steps. I can't provide that, The truth
thcre's only one easy way to learn a language: you must be immersed in that language fror
the time you are two years old until you are four years old. These are the years, linguists tell us,
during which children dont learn a language, but rather catch it like a disease. They pick it up
nscious effort
