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I want to help you to learn English.

I believe that the way how I did learn English (by reading articles interesting to me) - can benefit others who are learning it as second (or third) language, as I did. Many courses use lots of video. It might be a problem for someone with slow Internet. My way of learning English works also with slow or very little Internet.

I expect you already did learn some basic English, so you can read and understand this :-)

I am lucky that I do not have to write it all by myself: I can just link to existing pages on the Internet. There are lots of pages to help you learn English, but search for good pages takes time. Lots of time if you read slowly. I found good pages for you so you don't have to!

Many blogs about learning English want you to keep returning to them, so they can sell advertising. Not me. I will give you info so you can go off and learn on your own and have fun.

Here are the steps. You can try them in any order you like.

• Focus on important stuff only and have fun. Don't wait until you are perfect, make mistakes and learn from them.
• Don't worry about the grammar too much. If you can read this, you know enough basics, and can learn the rest later by being exposed to proper English (like children learn) by reading. 
• Learn IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet, for pronunciation (right way to say the words).
• Learn some songs and rhymes (with IPA transcript), so you can repeat them aloud and make your pronunciation better.
• Learn more English words using free app on your phone any time.
• Start reading pages in simple English, comics, and about things of your interest. And listen to audio and TV.
• Start talking: I will give you ideas how to find a someone to talk to.

Of course there are many other free online English courses

These pages are constantly updated as I find more resources.

I highly recommend these forums with information how to learn languages:

• English Language Learners
• Language Learning

Let me know what do you think, and thank you for reading!

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