What is the best way to teach someone English?

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Making it personal. Pretty much including the person in English events. For example, the person who wants to learn English may want to live with an English family or go to an English camp. That same person may also want to go on outings with a group of English people who simply speak English with each other. In other words, the best way to teach someone English is to lead by example and welcome someone into your English life as though he or she belongs and it is the most natural thing in the world for him or her to be there. The person’s comfort level is important. Why? So that he or she can feel comfortable attempting to speak English without being looked down on. It would also give him or her a chance to practice and possibly even learn English expressions and which tone certain sentences are often said in. It may help to slow down in speaking around a person who does not speak English at all or well, simply out of respect, so that he or she does not have to struggle to keep up with the conversation.

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