There’s many way to improve your English online in so far as most of the Web is in English (around on 70%). As soon as you’re browsing you’ll arrive on websites in English even though you didn’t intend to. That’s the way it is, it tend to change (there were hardly any French speaking people on the Net back in the early 1990s) to there so much content in English that it would be too bad to miss them.
‘What can i do if I suck at English?’ you’ll ask me. Maybe the best idea is not to go back to you old grammar and vocabulary books – probably full of dust since you opened them in Junior High School. You probably know the basics and you mainly need to practice, so as to pick up idiomatic sentences and to get used to the way English speaking people really communicate. In this case Internet could really help you.
To learn English you can simply look up on Anglo-Saxon the same topics you’re used to look up in your native language. It’s so much easier to go further a matter of language if you already know something about the subject you’re reading about.
With the development of high speed internet access there is more and more video content on the Net. You could use them to improve your English in so far as more of these contents comes from the US. YouTube videos can be nice to watch, sometimes they are hilarious but I think that most of them won’t teach you anything about how to speak English. If you like TV shows you’d better watch some that really easy to find online nowadays.
I’m kind of a TV series addict, I watch plenty of them – such as Lost, 24, the Sopranos or Six Feet Under - and most of the time in original version, not only for to improve my English but simply to watch them as soon as possible. A couple of years ago you could only download them on p2p network if you didn’t want (couldn’t wait?..) to get the DVDs. Nowadays TV channels put them directly on their website directly after they has showed on amercian channels. Currently you can follow the third season of Desperate Housewives on the website of ABC . There are no more excuses not to know English well enough so as to deal with everyday life situations. Actually, you can only watch Desperate Housewives on the website of ABC from the US. That's too bad..French people have to find an other solution to watch the 3rd season
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