Simple Foreigner: Learn English in 10 Days for Urgent Oral Practice

Author: Dennis, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Life American English Conversations: All scenarios in life can be expressed. If you can speak these conversations fluently, you can travel across the United States and the world. ※ Simple Foreigners—10 Days of Emergency Learning English Speaking: This book focuses on authentic, natural, and interesting, commonly used spoken English. You can express your thoughts vividly and clearly without memorizing complex grammar. If you can speak these conversations fluently, you can travel across the United States and the world. With the development of society, the opportunities to communicate with foreigners, such as traveling, visiting relatives and friends, working abroad, or working and living domestically, are increasing day by day. Some people have a basic foundation in English but are afraid to speak. This book is designed to help them transform into "simple foreigners" through 10 days of intensive training, enabling them to communicate in English, find their destinations abroad, book hotel rooms, enjoy delicious food, buy affordable goods, and locate restrooms. The conversations in this book are standard, natural, and modern, reflecting the everyday spoken English of Americans. They may seem simple but are highly practical and useful. The author, Dennis, is an American education expert and a certified teacher. His wife, Jing Liming, is a U.S.-born Chinese professional writer and translator.
How to Use This Book:
1. First, listen to the conversations 10 times. This is very important because after listening 10 times, the correct language signals will be deeply ingrained in your mind. If you don’t listen, you might read or memorize it based on your own understanding, which may lead to incorrect pronunciation. Repeating your mistakes will make it harder for you to correct them later when communicating with foreigners, potentially causing misunderstandings.
2. Shadow the audio, trying to imitate the sounds on the tape or CD, until you can recite it fluently.
3. When possible, practice with a native English speaker to improve your pronunciation. Make every effort to use the language.
4. Once you can understand the content without referring to the book, you can use all your free time to listen to the material repeatedly.