Journal#1

Compare or/and contrast , in a well-written paragraph, two of the following
Studying English in Vancouver and in your own country


Learning English in Vancouver or in China, both of them have advantages and disadvantages. In Vancouver , not only it provides a good atmosphere for you, but also you are involved in the native English culture, which could help you understand English more easily. Firstly, you can learn English words from everywhere, for example, you could see road-signs, you could see the shop names , you could learn new words from everywhere. Secondly, Your learning is vivid and lively, because you know how to use new words, what is different forms of new words, such as adjective, noun. Moreover, in Vancouver, the resource of learning English is so countless that you want to put yourself into different pieces to learn. Newspapers, which are free here, is a main resource to learn .You could learn how to write a sentence, how to write topic sentences, how to support your opinions, how to use a correct word to express your own idea specifically. In addition, when you learn new words, you could use them, talk to the native speakers. If they feel strange, that means you have something wrong with using them In case they understand what you mean, they will say “Do you mean ……”, in that cases , you will learn how to express these idea, how to use this words, how to express the same meaning with different ways. That is interesting. It is better to inspire you to go further. Although learning English in Vancouver is good, you should pay a lot of tuitions for your language study. Sometimes, you feel lonely and home-sick. In China, people give a lot of passion to study the second language, especially in English. For example, you could see a lot of English books on bookstores, like how to learn English, A short way to learn English well, How to improve your grammar, and so on. If you come to bookstore first, you will feel confused. Why so many books talk about Learning English. But it still hard to learn English well even though there are a lot of books here. Because you have few chances to practice what you have learned. You don’t know how to use new words, how to use new words to express your own ideas. The main way to learn new words is to repeat. That’s all. you know what new words mean. But you don’t know how to use them. So, everyone Chinese students’ reading skills is good, but the listening , speaking, and writing are not as good as reading. If you just want to pass the examinations , for example TOEFL(PBT),IELTE, it is a good choice to take training in China. The teachers give you a lot of tips, even you don’t know what is about, you can guess which is right, sometimes, it always right. But your own skills don’t improved. Maybe ETS have found that problem , they take a new form about TOEFL(IBT), some students fail to pass this exam. So, to improve your own language skills is the only way to pass all kinds of examinations, while, some tips about how to pass examinations are still useful. In brief, there is a huge difference between learning English in Vancouver and Learning English in China.