Learning English While Traveling

Have you ever thought that you can learn English while traveling? You might say, "Well, people will study English if they want to go abroad especially to English speaking countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States of America." But here I want to say that you can learn English even if you only visit a nearby city.

Suppose that you live in Jakarta - the capital city of the Republic of Indonesia, and you want to go to Surabaya - a trading city in East Java Province. You will wonder how you can study English while traveling to that city. This is what you can do. Try to find a travel guide about the city of Surabaya both from a bookstore or a website on the internet. At the moment the travel guide for Surabaya city is available in several languages. It will be good for you if you can get an English version. If you cannot find it at your local bookstores then I will suggest that you log on to the website of Lonely Planet. If you don't know the address of the website, just type Lonely Planet in Google search engine. It will give you the address of the website. When you click the hyperlink of Lonely Planet, you will be presented with a front page that contains travel guides to many parts of the world. You don't have to be confused with them. Just type Surabaya travel guide. The website will give you what you request.

You can order the travel guide of Surabaya city and the Province of East Java directly from Lonely Planet website. You can order other travel guide books from that website or other similar travel guide publisher which you can find from the internet.

After receiving or downloading the travel book, you can begin reading it. You will explore the city that you want to visit using the English version of the city's travel book. This is one of the most important steps which you can make to understand English and at the same time to know more about the city.

You can do the same if you live in Tokyo Japan and you are interested to visit New Caledonia - the a French colony in the Pacific region. Find a travel guide book in English version about it both from a local bookstore or from a website. You will know more about the region before visiting it. In addition, after reading such book, you will get more knowledge about the historical background of the city or the country and at the same time you have enrich yourself with a lot of new English vocabularies.

English can be studied through various ways. Learning English while traveling is one of them. It can relieve yourself from the complicated grammar and widen your knowledge about new culture and new people that you want to visit. Happy traveling and learning English. by Charles Roring

The bahasa Indonesia version of this article: Belajar bahasa Inggris saat bepergian