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how can i get better at english?? i know how to speak in english and i fully understand it but there are a few problems i have (self.asklemmy)

submitted 4 months ago by adrrdgz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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well first of all. i seem to have a lot of problems with coming up with sentences or forming sentences in general. for example when i'm talking to americans or whatever i usually don't really know what to say. but i fully understand them!! and when i'm about to say something. it's almost as if i didn't know any words.. like. i don't know any other english words other than the basic stuff. how can i improve?? please help me. thank you

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Read as much good, entertaining, engrossing, addictive fiction as you can.

For example if you like sci-fi, read The Expanse series. It’s 9 books. Thousands and thousands of pages, and it’s all entertaining.

Doing this will make you better at composing sentences of all types, short, long, simple, complex, future tense, past tense, complex construction, you’ll encounter hundreds of examples of each when you read a novel.