In the last few years, I thought that my English level was good (Upper Intermediate or may be Advanced Level). I read from time to time books in different spheres on English, watched news English TV channels, spoke with foreigners during traveling abroad. Meanwhile I have never planned to take any language examination or certification like IELTS or TOEFL. I guess, many IT specialists in my country live in such a way. My only serious exam of Foreign Language was University entrance exam. It was a long time ago. After that I didn’t check my real level of language knowledge. Recently I had some conversation with different people from foreign countries, and I got some feedback’s, that level of my language was not so high, as I thought. This became a reason for me to found out some ways to check language level and to improve knowledge of English.
As I have some experience with taking different types of exams, especially in IT sphere, for me it’s clear, that preparation for such assessments can very good improve knowledge in particular sphere. And may be some training and exercises for IELTS, plus taking this test itself can be useful in making better the level of English language. I have written before in this blog article about “Methods for improve English skills”. Approaches from that article are practiced by myself constantly. But I would like try another way in getting better in English language. May be it can give more results in shorter time. IELTS itself requires experience in four different spheres of language – Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking. It can be taken in my own city Tashkent by everybody. The price of exam is affordable (about 160 US dollars).
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