TOEFL test

[mary]

Hi,friends,

I am so happy to join our forum.I am mary,from China.Glad to meet all of you here.I hope I can make more friends on this stage.

At first,thanks Paul for your message let me know this exactly and wonderful website.

Second,I will be appreciation for any friend can tell me  some  informations about TOEFL test.I want to try to take the next TOFEL test in Cambodia.But till now,I still don't know where,when and how I can register it.Thanks in advance.

Third,anybody can intruduce some good books those can improve our listening ability effectively and quickly ?Thanks again.

I am looking forward to any news from you.

Mary

[Keo Somala]

Hi Mary,

Welcome to the 5steps website. I am very glad you have become a member here!!! I am Somala. Well, let's see. I have recently taken the TOEFL test too.

If you want to take the TOEFL, in my opinion, you should go to RUPP (Royal University of Phnom Penh. There, you should search for the testing center which provides you information about the TOEFL date. REcently, there has not been an offical TOEFL yet. So you need to ask for information for sure.

Have fun .

[mary]

Hi Mary,

Welcome to the 5steps website. I am very glad you have become a member here!!! I am Somala. Well, let's see. I have recently taken the TOEFL test too.

If you want to take the TOEFL, in my opinion, you should go to RUPP (Royal University of Phnom Penh. There, you should search for the testing center which provides you information about the TOEFL date. REcently, there has not been an offical TOEFL yet. So you need to ask for information for sure.

>>>Hi,Somala,thanks for your reply.I will go RUPP to ask some informations during  this week.anyway,thank you so much.
     By the way,I wanna say I really like your words "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you don't stop".It encourages me deeply.
   Mary>>

Have fun .

[Phearith]

Hi mary

I glad to see here. I have some advice for you to improve listening skill. There are some points that I generally practise listening everyday at home. I would like to mention as the following: 1>listening to music- not jus listen for relax- download some lyrics of ur favourite songs, read the lyrics and listen.  2>watch English program/movie on TV that hav subtitle in English- try to listen what they are talkin about and read subtitle at same time. 3> if u need practise books, u can go to Angkor Bookstore and aske them- There are many kind of books that u need. Hey one more thing, if it isn't neccesary for u to take TOEFL test, dont try it. U know why, when u get low score, it ll discourage u. Now jus try to practise TOEFL more in order to buid up ur abiity....That all for me.
Good luck, Take care.

[mary]

Hi,Phearith,

Thanks for your advices.Yes,I agree with you,I should try listenning more English songs those I know lyrics,and watching more English movies those have subtitles.

I have been learning English for more ten years.It's a pity that I still can not deeply understand the person's meanning who speaks English in front of me.Some time I feel like a deaf and mute.It's really too bad.
haha~May be you can not believe that~but this is a true big trouble for me.

I really thanks for sharing your learning experiences with me.Hope I can improve my English quickly with your help.

thanks
Mary

[Keo Somala]

Hi Phearith and Mary,

I am mary,from China.

Oh, you are from China, aren't you? Well, again, I first skipped reading it. Now I'm a bit surprised you are Chinese, Mary. Welcome again! And could you please tell us more about you?

So you want to take the TOEFL soon? Tomorrow, I will go to RUPP to get my score paper of the TOEFL. I took it last Saturday. It was just ITP and in fact I intended to see how well I could do it. And as I have heard from the man at the desk in the testing center, the next official TOEFL is going to be CBT (computer-based TOEFL) . I was a bit disappointed   . But they are quite similar in some ways.

I have been learning English for more ten years.It's a pity that I still can not deeply understand the person's meanning who speaks English in front of me.Sometimes I feel like a deaf and mute.It's really too bad.
haha~May be you can not believe that~but this is a true big trouble for me.

Mary, me too!!! This thing is shared by us non-native speakers. You are not alone in that situation. Don't feel discouraged, my friend, because there are plenty of time to practice and many more things to learn. Listening, in my opinion, is the hardest part of English. It is achieved through the repeated practice of accessing the English sound into your ears and getting used to it a lot.

Third,anybody can intruduce some good books those can improve our listening ability effectively and quickly ?

I agree with Phearith's ideas.

1>listening to music- not jus listen for relax- download some lyrics of ur favourite songs, read the lyrics and listen. 2>watch English program/movie on TV that hav subtitle in English- try to listen what they are talkin about and read subtitle at same time.

Hey one more thing, if it isn't neccesary for u to take TOEFL test, dont try it. U know why, when u get low score, it ll discourage u. Now jus try to practise TOEFL more in order to buid up ur abiity....

Before taking the TOEFL, please prepare hard for it. And you are lucky because I bet the official TOEFL might take place in two or three months or less than that.

Good luck, Mary.
Enjoy the environment here!

[mary]

Hey,Somala,

You are so kind for me.It is true I come from Mainland China,and I have been here two and half years for my job.I really like this country's people and climate.Especially,there are so many delicious subtropical fruits,haha~

Yeah,originally I wanna to take the TOEFL test in Nov.,but if they only can give CBT next time,maybe I won't try it.Because I didn't prepare for it at all.In the fact,I really feel scared for any test.And the most important thing is I still feel confused about the test excersises.(I didn't go to RUPP yet,so I still don't know any information about TOFEL in Camboida.if there has been possible,I will go there tomorrow too.But I am not sure wether I will be free or not).I know you might have gotten  a high score.You English is so wonderful~

I should do hard-working on TOFEL~This is a great assignment~

Good luck
Mary

[Keo Somala]

HI Mary,

Thanks for telling me more about you.

I was told my score of the TOEFL this morning. I got only 560  :lol: . I was sad at first, but I couldn't refuse. Thanks, God, for giving me the score I didn't expect.

Don't get discouraged yet, Mary. If I know more information about it, I will tell you.  

You are so kind for me.It is true I come from Mainland China,and I have been here two and half years for my job.I really like this country's people and climate.Especially,there are so many delicious subtropical fruits,haha~  

Welcome to Cambodia!
Have fun.
Somala

[mary]

Wow,Somala,

Congratulation!You have gotten a higher score already.If I were you,I would be too excited to sleep.  :  560 points~~it's so wonderful to me.you know I only expect to get 500 points. :roll:

[Kimlong]

Hi here, especailly Mary

YOu are welcome Mary. I actually surprise while hearing your coming from China.

Let turn to your troble anyway. You have mentioned that you are a weak-listening-skill person, ain't you? I am also another one who don't involve in this issue, yet to overcome this awful thing just practise it daily. We have many sources to do so like:

listening to radio( ABC, Lovefm, BBC, VOA...), Listening to English songs( casette, audio cd, vcd, dvd, mp3...), wacthing TVs ( CNN, CTN news, ...) or watching movies of which prove the subtittle esp. in the cable TV. Moreover, the best way to do so is to pratice with foriegners, teachers or you peers and then.

Poor Mala! I am whole-heartedly pity you   ; you got only 560 toefl marks.

You know I got it merely 160 marks te. Hu hu ha :lol:  :lol:  :lol:


Cheerio!!

Kimlong

PS: Oh sorry Mary for late participating your topic. Nice to be aware of so a person like you chinese. Hope you are on this forum for good.

[mary]

Hi,Kimlong,

Thanks for your advice.I am so happy be here to make so many good friends like Somala,Phearith and you.Wherever I come from,we are friends,right?  

I really thanks all of you for the many  kindness you showed me.Hope we improve our English quickly together at this stage.Thanks all of your positive replies.

good luck&have fun
      everyday!
Mary

[Keo Somala]

Hi Mr. Kimlonglong & Mary,

Congratulation!You have gotten a higher score already.If I were you,I would be too excited to sleep.  :  560 points~~it's so wonderful to me.you know I only expect to get 500 points.

Hi Mary, thank you so much for your inspiring words. I will go for it with my utmost.

Poor Mala! I am whole-heartedly pity you  ; you got only 560 toefl marks. You know I got it merely 160 marks te. Hu hu ha    

   Everybody surely knows that Kimlong is such a funny friend who most of the time mocks at you.  

[Suy Prasoeur]

Hi Mary Kounila Phearith and Kimlong,


It is so nice to have a chinese member here joined with us. Again, I want to say welcome to Miss Mary. Welcome to our English home. :lol: Let me test my chinese stuff abit, Ni Hao Ma, Mary? :lol:


Have fun,
Prasoeur

[Phearith]

Hi Mary, keosomala, Kimlong, Suy Prasoeur

Everyone here is so friendly and helpful.

I have been learning English for more ten years.It's a pity that I still can not deeply understand the person's meanning who speaks English in front of me.Sometimes I feel like a deaf and mute.It's really too bad.
haha~May be you can not believe that~but this is a true big trouble for me.

Mary, I think that everyone studyin English has this feelin too. But dont blame urself, think for other good ways: why I am lik this, How I overcome it, what I should do next, ...

Everyone hav their own problem n disability. Me also. Sometimes I feel bad abou my English caus I cant speak English fluently n some of my pronounciation are really bad.

Anyway, nothing is better than practice it again and again.

keosomala, Congraduation ur TOEFL score. U hav such good ideas to share. I really appreciate ur advices.

PS: Hey Mary, the most difficult problem in TOEFL is idiom.

GOOD LUCK
Phearith

[jupiter]

Hi Mr and Miss, esp. Mary  

Mary, welcome to the site. I hope you'll find this site helpful and the members here friendly to you. Also, I expect you to share any suggestion or any problem with us so that we can wipe out all obstacles and barriers together to reach our goal, that is, be competent in English.

Nila, congratulations for getting 560 in TOEFL. This is just your start so I hope you'll reach higher score next time you sit the test.

Kimlong, well done guy!

Prasoeur, I'm with you to say Ni Hao Ma to Mary.

All the best to you guys,

Jupiter

PS. Mary, why not write Hi Somala, instead of Hi, somala,?