5 tips for Language Workout 

A physical workout or exercising is good not only to maintain a perfect/desired physique but also to lead a healthy life. Similarly a language workout regimen improves one’s command of a language, by enhancing the four language skills namely – Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.

Here are 5 tips for English language workout.

When you begin to work out and exercise, you do not aim for Olympic standard straight away. Similarly when one begins to plan language fluency in the four skills, one has to start at the basics and move slowly and step by step.

1. Understand the importance of all the four language skills – Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. Whatever your needs are to become proficient in English, you need to work on all these skills.

International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) are the two main English language proficiency tests accepted at universities across the world. Achieving a particular score on one of these tests could help one study in English at the higher institution of one’s choice, so it can be an essential part of the studying abroad process. One has to achieve proficiency in all the four language skill areas to get the desired score in these tests.

2. Assessing where you are with respect to each skill is very significant because, only then you can plan the road map for the next level. Language assessment tests are used to evaluate your reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. As most of our students aspire to study / work abroad it is important for them to be confident in the language skills.

3. A balanced language workout regimen is important. Just like our muscles are strengthened with a balanced workout, our language skills get strengthened with constant and regular workout. A balanced language workout regimen needs to be planned and followed-up. The weak areas have to be strengthened.

4. Practice makes perfect. Every skill has to be practiced regularly and routinely to become confident. Listening and Reading are two language skills which help in enhancing grammar and vocabulary. Desired content enrichment is also achieved by reading a variety of texts. These two skills play a magical role in achieving fluency in Speaking and Writing.

5. Mastering all four language skills needs regular, balanced workout. Be consistent in your workout regimen to become proficient and fluent in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing in English.

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