Learn English Easily with Volume One of English Made Easy: A New Visual ESL Approach

Rox: I bought for my girlfriend, she is very happy and content with this book !

United States on Sep 21, 2023

JakiR: Using for a very elementary start for ESL.

Canada on Aug 05, 2023

Deedee: Helpful for intermediate learner. I like the progression of lessons

Canada on Jul 26, 2023

Gar: I like the format. The pictures make it easier for my ESL adult student to understand. The only thing that was confusing was that the name of the female child translated to "mother " in her language but it gave us a good laugh once we figured it out.

United States on Apr 30, 2023

Larissa Silva: Um bom recurso para professores de inglês usarem nas aulas, mas não indico para quem quer aprender pois pode ser bem confuso se você não entende a língua.

Brazil on Dec 08, 2021

Eveline Horelle Dailey: Very satisfied.

Mexico on Apr 03, 2021

Susan Goewey: My teenage son has gaps in his language comprehension. This book, designed for ESL, is a good one for him because it has drawings and very repetitive characters, scenerios that are common in everyday life but he needs help understanding. The speech bubbles help represent family relationships and pronouns. "HE is MY brother" for example (when it comes from the daughter in the family) helps him better understand the familial labels.

I also bought Volume 2 , thinking Vol 1 would be too boring and basic for him...but it wasn't. It fills in some gaps I wasn't even sure existed. He needs me to read it along with him, asking questions, pointing, correcting, but it is better than flashcards because he can detect PATTERNS in the panels. For example, relationships illustrated all on one or two pages of cartoons: He is my father. He is my son. She is my wife. She is my mother... etc. all on one page with correct corresponding speech bubbles.

And the drawings are not comical or talking animals or but depict obvious male/female parents/adults and male/female children (who are shorter than the adults so we can tell which is which) ... women have longer hair. men have short hair....

United States on Dec 17, 2018

Amazon Customer: I am finding this book to be very helpful in assisting a young Syrian refugee couple to learn the English language. The pictures make it much easier to understand the printed words as well as making the lessons more interesting.

Canada on Jan 28, 2017

John: Having sought ESL material in vain across Asia, I found this book to be a blessing. All of the materials that I've found in Asia, even in university book stores, had been thrown together by non-native speakers and were rife with horrible, glaring mistakes on every single page. This is a disservice to a bright, talented student who could only aspire to speaking & writing the botched-up "English" in those materials.

This isn't rocket science; this is just a simple, well-done product that fills a void.

It is ingenious in its simplicity. Each simple page has plenty to expand on, e.g., I pointed to the sentence "My name's Anne." --which the student incorrectly read (on the first try) as "My name is Anne." I explained the discrepancy, she then said it perfectly, and I explained the role of the apostrophe here. The book also says "I'm Anne." I explained that this was equivalent, and I explained which forms were more common in speech, etc. I also explained that the apostrophe doesn't always indicate a contraction (when it's possessive), etc. So there is *plenty* to expand on. (And it does not harm the student to transcribe some into a notebook. :-)

I would not...

United States on Jan 06, 2017

CandyS: I'm using this book for my ESL students. I'm tutoring two women who recently arrived as refugees and spoke no English. I am not trained as a teacher. Luckily they had apparently studied English letters in their native country, so could read a little. My only wish is that the book began with somewhat more formal English. Instead of 'My name is Candy' or 'I am Candy' they are to say 'I'm Candy'. Numerous contractions immediately rather than a more formal it is, it does not, etc. However, with lots of laughter and encouragement (and occasional resorting to an on-line translator when we get stuck), the picture book format is working well. Not only are they having to learn English, but some of the sounds in English are totally foreign to their way of speaking. Their primary language does not have several sounds that are common in English -- the letter P, for instance, is very difficult. (not the fault of the book).

United States on Dec 26, 2016