Creative Ways to Learn English That No One Has Told You Before

It is the number one language in the world in terms of importance, the language of science and technology, and the language of businessmen. We should not forget that it is the language of international movies and series.

Is English a simple language?

When compared to other languages like French or German, English is the least complex because it is a fairly simple language.

English does not distinguish between words that are masculine or feminine and makes do with the definite article "the" and the indefinite articles "a" and "an," and its conjugation does not change depending on where it appears in a sentence, unlike German, which is not content to simply assign a word to one of the two genders but instead devised a third gender that it called the neuter gender.

A new way to learn English that no one told you about

You can learn the English language by reading English proverbs and sentences that you can write down in your notebook and review from time to time, as it enables you to learn new words and train on how to formulate the sentence, in addition to the cultural and life benefits that you gain from these proverbs, which may change your life one day—who knows?

the most important thing in learning any language is the psychological state and not giving in to frustration.

Here are some beautiful examples:

1. “God's mill grinds slow but sure.” The Arabic version of this proverb reads, “My Lord is powerful, merciful, and kind” or “He grants respite but does not neglect.”
2. "Abundance like want ruins many." The literal translation of this speech is that abundance, like need, spoils the many, and there is an Arabic wisdom that falls in the same context that reads, “Extravagance blinds the eyesight” or “Excessive ablution spoils prayer.”
3. There is a wonderful English proverb about friendship that says, “Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.”
4. We have a beautiful wisdom about the difficulties that a person can face in his life: “Adversity makes strange bedfellows.” The Arabic version suggests that hardships unite those who experience them; they make strangers close friends.
5. “Not all that glitters is gold," is the famous Arab wisdom. Have you asked yourselves what the corresponding proverb in the English language is? It is a wonderful and beautiful proverb that goes like, “All flesh is not venison,” meaning that not all the meat is as delicious as the meat of the venison.
6. We also have this English wisdom, “An ape is an ape; a varlet is a varlet, though they may be clad in silk or scarlet.” The Arabic version is a very well-known proverb, “Behavior prevailed over social imprinting,” as well as a funny verse: “If a donkey wears fine clothes, people will still recognize it as a donkey.”

Innovative methods and ways to learn English from movies and series

The most important methods that help to learn the English language are English-language films and series, and it is the most popular way to learn as it does not consume additional time.

It is also a fun method that combines interest and entertainment, and you can leverage it through several methods, the most important of which are:

1. Some people download the English and Arabic subtitles through many sites, most notably Subscence, and then put the two subtitles together and watch the movie. You can use some video playback programs that allow you to display two different subtitles for the movie or series, the most important of which is KM Player.
2. Some people prefer to watch the movie with Arabic subtitles only and train themselves to listen carefully to what the actors say. This helps train the ear to listen to the English language.
3. You can also download the two subtitles to your device, switch between them, and repeat the scene several times, alternating between Arabic and English, while replaying the clip at the end without any subtitles, repeating it verbally, and repeating this process several times.
4. There is another method that may be the most difficult, but at the same time it is considered by English teachers to be the most useful, and it is summarized by the learner watching the movie three times, the first with English subtitles, the second with Arabic subtitles, and the third time without any subtitles, and this method wins you lots of English vocabulary and sentences.

Learn English by understanding the background of the word's creation

• Some words in the English language are the result of joining two words together. For example, the word "brunch" was created by combining the words "breakfast" and "lunch," meaning both lunch and breakfast at the same time.
• The word "motel" is derived from the word "motorcar," which means "car," and the word "hotel," which was combined to form the word "motel," which refers to a hotel that is situated next to a public road.
• Other words include "guess," which means "to guess or expect," and "estimate," which denotes "an evaluation or an estimate." These two terms were legally combined to create the phrase "guessestimate," which means arriving at conclusions based on educated guesses and the information that is currently known in science and logic.
• East, west, north, and south are all sources of the English term "news." The word "news" was created by taking the initial letter from each of the four sides (North, East, West, and South).
• The word “family” was formed by taking the first letter of each word for the following sentence: “Father and mother, I love you.” What a lovely and amazing meaning this has!
• It may be the most common word in the English language is the word “OK,” which is in fact an abbreviation for an old city in New York in the United States of America bearing the name Old Kodahok, and when a presidential candidate named Martin Van Boden came out of this city, the people were calling for his election by saying, “Elect the son of K,” and the people were responding by saying “OK, OK, OK!” and from that time this word became a sign of acceptance.

Useful tips to help you learn English

1. Always surround yourself with people who speak English. This is of great importance in getting you used to this language.
2. Use the new words you have learned in your daily life, and repeat them frequently.
3. Think of the English language while you are sitting at home alone, and try to switch to your native language. This may be tedious at first, but it is very useful, and you will get used to it with time.
4. We are in the age of modern technologies and technological progress, so use them to your advantage in learning the language and download a dictionary in the form of an app on your mobile device.
5. Switch the language of your computer or smartphone to English; it is very useful.
6. When you are sitting somewhere or waiting for your friend to come, take advantage of this time by describing or naming the things you see around you in English, and if you are unable to find some things, you can use the dictionary.
7. Make your headphones your travel companion. You can make good use of your travel hours by listening to conversations, recordings, or songs in English.
8. Record your voice as you speak English. This is very important in order to correct your pronunciation when you make a mistake by re-listening to what you said in the audio recording and correcting your mistakes.
9. Do not memorize any new word without first listening to its pronunciation. This is because the English language does not contain any fixed rules regarding correct pronunciation.
10. If you learned a new word today, put it into a useful sentence, memorize the whole sentence, and transfer it to your notebook.

In conclusion

We would like to mention that the most important thing in learning any language is the psychological state and not giving in to frustration.

Because anything we learn at the beginning is difficult, and when all the words, grammar, and sentences are foreign and new to us, we may feel frustrated, it is necessary not to give in to this matter and to complete the path that we started according to the plan set.