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00:53 Aneta: So you have everything here, it's So many people and so many
skyscrapers and it's yeah, unbelievable
01:08 Burham: It was amazing It was spectacular For example the big buildings I
think in U.S.A. everything is, hah, ah... big
01:25 Maria: I like everything of New York Eh, lot of people in the street The
buildings, they are very very big and it's so different to Spain at least from the place
where I live
01:52 Aneta: I can tell you that in the beginning I hated New York Really It was
terrible for me because... It really, really ... it's a loneliness place
03:09 Lee: I came to New York 2-3 months to improve my English because, em next
month I will start to study psychology in the university in Israel and it's really
important to to know English And English is the I think the most important
language in all the world so you must know it
03:32 Aneta: I'm here in New York for learning English and also for doing yoga
teacher training so I have a break here for 4 weeks
03:40 Arum: I came to here to study English Coz I wanna feel closely with the
native speakers and I think if I stay in America I can... I can meet a lot of American
or a lot of people who speak English
03:58 Adrian: Mainly my aim here is to study English in a setting where everything
is English, so um, ... I think it's the best way for me to improve my English
04:45 Question: Why do learners visiting New York think English is
important?
04:52 Maria: Well, I study translation so it's the most important thing in my, in my
studies but it's also very useful for me and I think for everybody at least where I
live because there are a lot of tourists and it's easier to have a job if you learn
English than if you don't
05:18 Carolina: I think that it's very important because now, if you want to get a job
the first question is 'Do you know English?' now everybody has to know English
05:28 Burham: I am studying at computer engineering and this is my last year in
Istanbul University and you know in computer science or computer engineering
the English is very important Every software the program languages are in English
You know and I think you must or you should err ... you should research from
the English books the English sources
06:09 Adrian: The way I'm going to improve my work and my prospective ... and
everything will be connected with English because I'm focussed in making business
with international companies and that's the way that we should communicate I
think English is the international language that's why I need to be able to
understand, to be understood
06:45 Arum: When we apply our jobs we need an English score like a TOEFL or
TOEIC or yeah some certification of the I have ability to speak English or I have, I
can speak English We need it because these days it's a global world so we need
English, yeah
07:55 Question: What problems do people have when learning English?
08:02 Aneta: The most difficult point for me is to speak because it's much easier to
read or to listen, but um ... to express yourself in a foreign language is difficult
because um... sometimes you have to find the right expressions or words ...
because I think you, um, think in the native language and you want to speak in the
foreign language
08:32 Adrian: Well, at first ... it was the grammar part of the English until I tuned
the way that English is structured I think um ... and then I realised that there
was some parallelism between two languages Anyway, it's the way I thought I could
... do it faster But then I realised that I had to focus only on the English
grammar forgetting about my native language
09:13 Carolina: I think that the grammar is not so difficult not the vocabulary but
listening and speaking ... It's a bit hard because ahh, in Spain we don't improve that
we don't practise and I think that in most of the countries so if we come here we
can improve a lot ... have a change
09:45 Lee: For me, most difficult is the grammar because it's so different from
Hebrew grammar from my language and in the beginning I thought in Hebrew and
talk in English so it was like a sentence that it's not correctly But I don't know
about now but I think it's improved because I think I speak in English and think in
English now ... I hope so
10:36 Question: How does being in New York help with these problems?
10:43 Lee: I think that outside of the class I learn a lot of new vocabulary that I
didn't know before I came here And I improved my listening because I ... I heard a
lot of people in different accents And, mm, I saw a lot of um ... TV here in, just in
English and it's really help
11:05 Maria: I'm living with my friend, ahh ... we are living in her uncle's house and
he's American He and we speak to, with him every day a lot 1 or 2 hours And
also in the street when you go to the shop or you ask to a policeman who where is
a place The most important thing I think is that I am speaking a lot with the
partners and hearing the American accent of the teachers and people in the street
so I am very happy here
11:49 Adrian: At first when I first came to U.S. it was very difficult ... because I had
a little English, so umm... But then, there is a point when you... it's like you open
your eye... your um, ears It's something that happening when ... emm I think it's
more related with to be afraid of not, not understand what they're saying So when
you overcome that fear it becomes easier to understand and to be able to
communicate Um ... I think that's why, um ... to be in a place where you have to
deal ah, ah... with everything in English is the best way to do it faster
12:34 Arum: Almost people who are not speak English worried about when they
speaking when they speak they think their grammar is right or vocabulary is right
They always worried about that so they have no confidence when they have ...
when they speak Actually after I came here I have confidence about speaking
English actually so maybe, and I will get a TOEFL score later so maybe help for
getting my job and when I travel maybe I have confidence
13:37 Question: What tips do learners visiting New York have for other
learners of English?
13:49 Aneta: I think the best way is to go in a country where it's the native language
because there you start thinking in that language and that makes it easier and you
are ... You hear it all the time you read it all the time And for me it's the best way
to learn
14:07 Lee: And I think to be in a city with everybody talking in English, and I have to
talk in English to eat, to drink, to place ... to find a place to sleep to connect with
people You have to talk the language so you learn it
14:25 Carolina: I advise them to try to practise more their speaking their accent,
reading and if they can get grants from the government and can travel around the
world it's the best thing because here we can learn the best English and not as we
learn it in our country that is not the same
14:55 Adrian: If they don't have the possibility to travel I think the only way to ...
ahh, to do it is to take it seriously I mean, umm, you need to practise I think every
day at least 2 hours 1 or 2 hours per day, to um ... to, to see yourself improving in
the language Um ... I think an intensive course will be the best um ... way to ... to
learn the language because if you, for instance what I did in the past was to take
maybe 2 hours per week and it wasn't enough I can say that I could learn just a few
things But when I started doing um ... intensively, I realised that I, I ... I saw
myself improve in English
15:58 Arum: Talk a lot with native speakers, yeah Even though the grammar is wrong
or vocabulary is wrong just to talk a lot and watch the drama or watch TV