Fun ways to learn English, or to perfect English, include learning through fun books, fun Internet tools, and even TV and music.
In relation to fun books, the popular book Funny English Errors and Insights: Illustrated provides a fun way to learn and improve your knowledge of English and other subjects. Funny English Errors provides 301 accidentally humorous examples of misused English. In order to get the joke in many of these examples, you must have a good understanding of English and good general knowledge.
Here is a simple example. Consider this student blooper: “Every sentence must begin with a caterpillar”. What do you think the young student meant to write when he wrote “Every sentence must begin with a caterpillar?” You would not understand the child’s confusion unless you knew that, in English, every sentence must start with “a capital letter”. Funny English Errors contains many more, and more challenging, examples that provide an extra incentive for the reader to work out the correct form of English and to learn knew subjects.
The Internet is the perfect tool for learning and provides another fun way to learn English. There are a multitude of free websites that can help you learn different things, according to your interests. There are also fun applications such as the popular vocabulary-building tool, Ultimate Vocabulary.
English is the international language of today’s society, so everyone needs to have a good command of it, from children to adults. Most of us were not bookworms in our teenage years and our vocabulary for certain domains and spelling may suffer. If you want to improve yourself, the main ways are through reading and listening to English.
Learning is not considered an enjoyable pastime in today’s society. The BBC thinks otherwise. It offers an English service that helps you read and develop your pronunciation; the service can be summarized under one phrase, “Fun ways to learn English”.
The topics presented are numerous: General and Business English, Grammar and Vocabulary, Pronunciation, and Quizzes. There is even a series called The Flatmates where you can listen to different fun stories.
Usually, there are audible articles on different themes and you can find out the answer to a quiz by listening to it. Thus, you learn new things as well as improve your vocabulary.
You also have different learning series where you can listen as well as read the script and improve your knowledge of different subjects.
Other fun ways of learning English is by watching TV shows and listening to music. An example is the popular 1970s BBC series Monty Python Flying Circus. Monty Python filmed 4 seasons that aired between 1969 and 1974. Their influence in comedy is compared to that of the Beatles in music and the humor is diverse, from absurd humor to language humor (as in, for example, the well-known Parrot Sketch).
In music, it does not matter what genre of music you prefer, as long as it has a couple of lyrics and you like the song, you will automatically learn them, be it Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, or Muse, and so you will improve your English in a fun way not even realizing it.
You can always find new fun ways to learn English or to improve it. If you have found a topic that interests you, you can always find out more about it in English. Also, you can watch documentaries and even take fun lessons on topics from today’s social events and topical news.