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Learning is always hard especially learning something new such as English learning. English is a totally different new language compared with Chinese, so when we are learning, definitely we will meet all kinds of difficulties on listening, speaking, reading and writing. Most beginners think listening is the most difficult part in English learning. Due to the lack of vocabularies, beginners can not get the main idea of a story. They usually expect to know every single word and if they miss some word, they will become extremely nervous so that they lose their confidence at all. The best way to avoid it is to pre-teach some potentially difficult vocabularies. And listening to English songs and reading the lyrics will do a lot of help. Also keeping on watching English movies is an efficient method to improve listening. Speaking can be improved dramatically from zero in a short time but it's quite difficult to speak accurately. At class, teachers should encourage students to speak as much as possible in English and also should not correct them word by word. In my opinion, Fluency is much more important than accuracy. When students are not at the same level of English, teachers should pair the strong ones with the weak ones, because the strong students will help the weak students with new words and meanwhile the weak ones will learn something new from the strong students. In order to create more opportunities for the students to speak, teachers should organize more activities, the more interesting, the better. For beginners, teachers should avoid to ask them questions one by one in order to make the atmosphere more relaxed. Pronunciation plays an important role in speaking. If students want to improve their pronunciation, they should listen more, more English songs and English news and they should pay attention to intonation and the rhythm. For most Chinese people, English reading is not as difficult as listening or speaking. Chinese students are usually good at reading comprehension. They can make correct choices at the exams but as I know, they seldom read English books. When they read an English book, they will meet a lot of unknown words, and if they look into the dictionary, they will find more new words and gradually, they will lose their patience and their confidence and finally they will put the books away. Actually, reading is very necessary part in English, students can increase their vocabularies and at the same time build up their English feeling. For beginners, teachers should encourage them to start from something easy and interesting such as comic books and then English newspapers and then English novels. Writing is always the hardest part of English for Chinese students. Chinese students are good at grammar and vocabularies, but they seldom read English books so when they want to put something on the paper, they will find it's difficult to express their feeling exactly or they even don't know what to say. At a class, teachers usually don't spend enough time on writing because they are afraid that the students will get bored at class. If we want to solve this problem, teachers should encourage students to write more , Writing diaries in English is a good way, from one sentence or two to a story, an essay ... and at a class, if teaches want to save time, they can ask students to make up a story orally in group, and at the end of class, students can do the presentation in the front of a class. Students can meet a lot of difficulties at English learning. And there is a big difficulty which we can not ignore is on psychological problem. When students learn English, especially for those beginners, they always feel frustrated when they can not listen, speak, read or write very well. They easily lose their confidence when they spend a lot of time on learning but still the progress is not as satisfied as they expect. So teachers should pay enough attention to encourage those students when they feel difficult or we can set up some roles such Study Advisors to help those students to ensure them to reach their final learning objectives. Learning is not easy, and learning English is very difficult. But if we follow those good ways mentioned above, we can go over difficulties one by one and we can get our objectives reached finally.
