- Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Be confident. People can only correct your mistakes when they hear you make them.
- Practice every day. Make yourself a study plan. Decide how much time a week you are going to spend studying and stick to it. Establish a routine.
Practice the 4 core skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. They all need to be worked on for you to improve.- Keep a notebook of new words you learn. Use them in sentences and try to say them at least 3 times when you speak.
- Use your body clock. If you’re not a morning person, study in the afternoon.
- You will find words easier to remember if you try to remember an example sentence using that word rather the word on its own.
- Give yourself a long term goal. Focus on working towards it.
- Give yourself short term goals too and reward yourself when you achieve each one.
- Create an atmosphere in which you want to learn, not because you have to. You’ll learn more when you’re learning because you want to.
- Get help! If you don’t understand something you’ve got to ask someone. Ask your teacher, classmates or friends for help.
- Review! Review! Review! Make sure that you take the time to review things you have studied in the past.
- It’s not a good idea to study on your own for more than 30 minutes at a time. Take regular breaks, get some fresh air and stretch your legs.
- Don’t be in such a hurry to move up a level. Concentrate on the level you are at now.
- Don’t translate into English from your own language. Think in English to improve your fluency. Talk to yourself…but not on the bus otherwise people will think you have gone crazy!
- Use English whenever you can. It’s as simple as that!
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Here are 15 things (in no particular order) you can do to improve your English:
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