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Old April 15, 2012, 05:54 PM
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Echoing Rusty: for speaking/listen and improving vocabulary, one needs LOTS of practice in MANY types of contexts; many commonly-known terms and expressions are specific to particular contexts or domains but rarely-used outside of those domains. For example, the terms one needs to know when talking about one's car or truck at an auto repair shop in Mexico don't show up very often in a dramatic novel by an Argentine writer.

For improving the finer points of grammmar, group classes are useful to a point, but eventually your at the point where your particular set of grammar issues is relatively idiosyncratic and group classes end up mostly reviewing topics that you have long-since mastered. At that point one-on-one coaching becomes more effective at identifying the specific issues that cause problems for you and helping you master them.
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