022: How can I help my friend with her English?

022: How can I help my friend with her English?

Isabelle asks: "My Chinese friend is learning English. How can I help her best?"

In this episode:
  • How to help someone learn another language

Three exercises you can use to figure out how to help someone learn your language:

  1. Have a discussion, just as you normally would. Don't interrupt, keep the conversation flowing. During this time, make lots of notes about their language. What mistakes are they making? What doesn't sound natural? When you've filled up a couple of pages with notes, look for patterns. What things keep cropping up again and again. Here's your starting point for helping them improve.
  2. Record the conversation. Listen back to it together, and give your friend control over the start/stop button! Ask them to ask you questions about what they have said. This helps them raise awareness of their own language use.
  3. Ask your friend what they most need to use the language for: making notes in lectures, r

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