<p>ok, so what do you guys do to improve your engllish, as in how do you imprive in writing essays, vocabulary, reading and all those stuff related to english</p>
<p>do you guys have tutors, or something? or do you just read books all the time</p>
<p>i'm not a big fan of books, i only read when i am forced to, but i do read basketball magazines</p>
<p>anything will help</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>well wait a second. were you born in the US or are you an immigrant?</p>
<p>My advice? Dont judge your writing skills when you're in 8th grade. You'll learn so much about writing when you get to High School.</p>
<p>yeah man. my writing skills SUCKED freshman year, and i'm happy to say that i'm a much writer now that i'm a senior. i noticed improvement every year. so keep your hopes up!</p>
<p>Yeah, you'll learn different things from different teachers, which makes it hard to determine which teacher to listen to. Good luck judging that one because my freshmen english teacher really tried to put me on the wrong track in writing. </p>
<p>As for books, use the Sparknotes.</p>
<p>just read...i used to hate reading too, but u just need the right book to get urself interested, it'll come in time... but hopefully not too late</p>
<p>should i have a english tutor or not? and i'm born in usa, california, i just notice that the essays i write, are plain, such as, i dont use many high leveled vocab words, and when i start my setences, it begins with like I, The, He, She, So, But, it just makes my essay look planin and boring to read</p>
<p>IF you want more higher level vocabulary words, read higher level literature besides magazines and stuff. You shouldn't really need a tutor.</p>
<p>8thgradeboy, are you applying for prep schools? most 8th graders here are.</p>
<p>Most 8th graders don't apply to prep schools...</p>
<p>most 8th graders HERE are.
kind of like most high school students dont use college confidential...eh?</p>
<p>just read books....and learn which teachers look for which writing styles, and then just alter what you write to fit their standards if you want good grades...I hate when I have to do that but that's what works. If you read a good variety of books, you will become used to more complex sentence structures and eventually you will use them naturally.</p>
<p>vocabulary is cold, hard memorization by the way</p>
<p>yeah, but you'll find if you read enough you can learn vocab that way and avoid rote memorization, plus have a much better feel for the word</p>
<p>If you can't stand vocabulary memorization, don't ever take a foreign language.</p>
<p>English is easy. AP History is easy. Science, however, is INSANELY hard. God I hate science.</p>
<p>Read. Read. Read. You'll eventually pick up vocabulary that you can then use in your writing. You develop your own writing style and your reading comprehension will improve.</p>
<p>Expand your interests and read about them.</p>
<p>In any case, I wouldn't use "big words" in essays just for the heck of using them. (It makes you look silly, too, if you use them out of context.) If your essay is "plain", maybe you should work on varying sentence structure first instead of the vocabulary.</p>
<p>When you read, keep a dictionary nearby. Look up words that you don't know and make up ways to remember them. Or make flashcards. Try to incorporate some of those words into your school assignments.</p>
<p>A good way of learning vocabulary is by reading books. Just keep reading and you'll pick up a lot of words this way.</p>
<p>Okay...read books has been covered, if you want to post, post something new guys.</p>