Before you start reading, you should know this: Learning English requires action. You may know all the learning tips, but if you don''t start doing things, you will achieve nothing. Therefore our method is not just for reading; it is for reading and doing.

　　You need two things to learn English well — passion and effective learning methods — and passion is the more important one. Why? Because passion makes you want to learn English; the learning methods only tell you how to do it faster.

　　If you love learning English:

　　You will do it regularly and spend more time on it.

　　Learning English will be easier for you. It will be easy for you to remember new words and grammar structures. It''s because the brain easily remembers information on a subject that you like. (For example, some people like history and know everything about World War II. If you told a "normal person" to memorize all these facts, they would never do it.)

　　We know you may not love learning English. And even if you love it, you will sometimes not want to do it. This is how human psychology works — sometimes we are so lazy, bored, and tired that we don''t want to do even the things that we like.

　　Here is what you can do when you don''t feel like learning English:

　　Imagine yourself in the future

　　Imagine you can talk to native speakers just like you talk in your first language. Imagine other people wanting to speak English as well as you do. Imagine the possibility of writing e-mail to people from all over the world.

　　You should know that it is possible to learn English really well. Just look at other people who have done it.

　　Remember that you are already good

　　You already know some English (you''re reading an article in English right now). That''s a big success! Now it''s time for more successes. Time to start using powerful methods of effective learning. Time to gain an impressive knowledge of English.

　　Remember there is a lot that you don''t know

　　You are good, but your English probably isn''t perfect. You probably can''t understand English-language TV, read books in English, talk to native speakers easily, write letters without mistakes, etc.

　　You should never think your English is perfect. Even if you are the best student in your class, always try to find your weak areas and work on them. When you''ve learned to speak English well, your problems will be quite small: punctuation, rarely used grammar structures, rare words, understanding "street language". Right now, your problems are probably more basic: mistakes in pronunciation, small vocabulary, grammar problems with the present perfect tense and conditional structures.

　　Use your English whenever you can

　　This is very, very important. The more you use English, the more you will want to learn it.

　　Because English is so popular, you can use it everywhere. You can use Yahoo to find English-language websites with interesting information, you can watch American cartoons, you can play adventure games on your computer, you can read interesting books in English, or you can do other things that we write about.