70 ways to improve your English

Learning English should be continuous. Then you really feel the results. Check out our tips on how to make the process of studying a continuous, but not annoying.

The benefits of knowledge of the English speaking meaningless. But the study of the language - it's not the easiest. We have prepared for you a few dozen tips to help you successfully cope with this task.

1. Get your English-language blog. This is a great way to practice writing texts in English. And the vocabulary replenished.
2. Keep news blog. Another good way to practice for the compilation of texts in English. Especially when you do not know what to write about. And if you add your forecast events (eg, "The President's Progress"), it will give you a reason to come back to the articles again and again. And then you can find the mistakes and correct them.
3. Sign up for regular e-mail tips for learning English. There is a sea of ​​websites that offer weekly or even a daily distribution of small lessons on English language email. Using your phone or tablet, you can read these tips on the way to work or school. But keep in mind that these lessons can only be regarded as additional material to what you (or your teacher) prepared for their level of knowledge. You can also subscribe to a group of English "VKontakte".
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4. Listen to audio books and radio broadcasts. On the Internet you can find a bunch of audio books and radio broadcasts in English. Absolutely free can be downloaded from websites such as Scientific American, BBC and Australia's ABC Radio.
5. Listen to the English-language music. If you take care of business at the same time listening to English-language music, then gradually you start to get used to the natural rhythm and tone of the English language.
6. Read the lyrics. You can get much more benefit from listening to the songs in English, if you spend a little time and read the lyrics with the dictionary. But note that the texts may be author's mistakes. When you next time you're listening to a song that already know the words, try to sing along. This will improve your spoken language.
7. Sing karaoke in English. Once you understand the lyrics and remember them, obvious step would be to sing it. This will help to learn English pronunciation.
8. Write a review for the film, or book a hotel. Of course, in English.
9. Google only in English. This is a great practice quick reading in English.
10. Read a book you've already read, or watch a movie you've already seen in their native language. It is easy enough to read the book, the story of which you are already familiar.
11. Read translated into English. Another easy reading in English can be a book, which has been translated to your native language. books are usually transferred more simple language than the authors write, for whom English is their mother tongue.
12. Skip the first 10 pages. If the book is read is difficult, try to read the first 10 pages diagonally or skip them altogether. The beginning of any book - it is, as a rule, description, crowded complex vocabulary. If, however, and further reading is difficult, then put this book down. Return to it when you read the lighter things.
13. read books with a lot of dialogue. It is much easier to understand the dialogues than long narrative. Plus you add to his piggy bank phrases that can be used in a conversation.
14. Read comics in English. Comics even easier and more intuitive than books with lots of dialogue. But this may be difficult due to the use of slang words. Select serious comics or comic adventure. They are easier to understand.
15. Read the poster entertainment in English. Today, in most major cities in the world produce magazines with information about film screenings, games, theater productions in English, which will be held in the city. Track and attend such events.
16. Read magazines in English. Try to read the two versions of the magazine (in English and, for example, Ukrainian). This will greatly facilitate understanding of the English version.
17. Take part in a weeklong intensive course. Although you should not expect from such a short training outstanding results, it will undoubtedly have a positive impact.
18. Alternate your intensive course with extensive. The more time you spend studying English, so, of course, better. But is periodic training on intensive courses (a few hours per week, with interruptions), probably the best of the systems. It gives your brain time to subconsciously learn and begin to apply already learned before moving on to something new.
19. Complete your individual group sessions. Personal tutor will help to deal with the points that you do not understand in the group lesson, and fix your mistakes.
20. Complete your individual training group. The benefits of group classes are often less visible to the students. However, this type of learning involves communication with multiple people at the same time that may be in dispute. Thus, you have the ability to interrupt the speakers, to listen to different points of view and easy to talk on various topics in English.
21. Teach your children or other people's English. This will increase your level of language skills and to fix in the memory of the existing knowledge.
22. Ask your company to introduce English lessons. Even if you do not have to speak in English at work, lessons can be very fun and rewarding.
23. Turn on the English-language radio while doing household chores. Even if you listen attentively, the radio will help you to feel the rhythm and intonation of English.
24. Play educational games on your set top box. This is a great way to take a break from regular classes and learn a language effortlessly.
25. Say or think about what you do in English. When you are doing routine chores, try to pronounce himself sentences describing your actions, in English. For example: "I open the ketchup." This allows you to think in English without translation. Also, it will help you realize how much the simple things around whose name you do not know.
26. See English-language films with English subtitles. This way of watching movies, you can advise those who constantly finds himself reading the subtitles in the native language, it is absolutely not listening to the English version. If this seems too difficult, the first 10 minutes of the film you can watch with subtitles in your language, and then switch to English.
27. Watch movies in their native language with English subtitles. If you are too hard to watch movies in English with English subtitles, this method is for you.
28. Watch movies in English with subtitles in your native language. Although it is not such a good practice of English as English subtitles, but more relaxing.
29. Browse movies and episodes again and again. So you better remember phrases and expressions without cramming. In addition, most comedies with each photo can become funnier and funnier for you.
30. Realistically assess their level of knowledge. One of the reasons hindering the improvement of English, is a re-evaluation of their own capabilities. Many overload your brain with too much complex information. And it is to this is not yet ready. Try to objectively assess your level of English, for example, in a test on the Internet.
31. Rate your real level of reading. Many scholars argue that people learn best stuff when they realize almost all of the reading. If the page of text appeared one or two unfamiliar words - this is normal level. If you do not understand three or more words on each page, you should switch to something lighter.
32. Read literary adaptation. These are books that are specially written for learners of English. Famous works especially lexical and grammatical simpler for people with a certain level of knowledge. However, it is sometimes difficult to find a book to read that is not only useful, but also interesting.
33. Read all without any help. Although the use of vocabulary and promotes the study of new words, but the constant interruption of reading for translation research can completely discourage the desire to read in English. If you read without any assistance, guessing about the meaning of unfamiliar words in context by the end of the book you will be able to experience all the pleasure of reading in a foreign language.
34. Read and study everything. This can be very challenging. But just imagine what pleasure you get after reading the book to the end! You feel that you know every word in it and that the acquired lexicon yet you will certainly come in handy.
35. See English-language children's movies or TV shows. Many things certainly seem strange to you (the mass of animal names; the sounds that they make; children's names), but at the expense of simple words and the narrative structure of all will become clear.
36. Read children's books in English. They are written in a simple language, than adult books. In addition, they have a lot of colorful pictures that help to understand the plot, cheer up, thus motivating you to continue to read.
37. Keep a list of what you need to study, for example, make a list words. Even if you have enough time to sometimes jump around in the list, the mere fact of its existence - is one more step on the path to learning English.
38. Take a walk through your list of words several times a day. If you are not entirely comfortable or uncomfortable to put a checkmark already learned words, while in transport on the way to work, then you may score them in a list on the phone. A good alternative will also be an audio recording of the words. This activity may seem useless, but it is not so. At the time of writing or pronouncing words you one way or another they will remember.
39. Keep your list of words to study exclusively in English. The bottom line is that you have ceased to translate words from English into your native language. How to do it? There are plenty of ways. For example, you can maintain a list of synonyms, such as "high" and "tall"; a list of antonyms - "high" and "low", and others.
40. Cross out and remove. Deletion and removal of words, sentences or even whole pages that you have already learned, can be a great motivator.
41. Throw out everything and start over. Very often, half-read books, cooked weight, but unexplored material are strong demotivator. People just throw their studies. To avoid this, we recommend you start all over again.
42. Attach stickers with the names of objects in the workplace and at home. You can write the names of the things around you on pieces of paper and pasted them everywhere. Thus, they will always be in front of your eyes, it will quickly remember designate objects.
43. Sign things in the photographs. This is a great alternative for those who do not have to hang labels with the names of things in English to the real items. You can take photos of things and to sign them.
44. Get personal diary in English. This is a good way to use English on a daily basis, describing everything that happens to you. Thus, you can greatly expand your vocabulary.
45. Online chat. This is the best way to improve your spoken words to those who have no other way to communicate in English.
46. Listen to the radio news in English. You can ease the task of pre-reading the news. Also, you can first read the news or listen to a message in their own language.
47. Read the news in English. On the Internet a huge number of English-language news sites - all at your disposal.
48. Write short stories in English. It is suitable for those who believe keeping a personal journal describing routine events are very dull affair. Unleash your imagination and write about everything that just come to mind.
49. Watch the video with English-language set of physical exercises and occupy them. It is a well affect not only your knowledge of English, but also your health.
50. Teach-known poems in English. This will help you play the intonation of English speech. In addition, you can use the already memorized grammatical expression in everyday life.
51. Drink a little before starting to speak English. This will give you confidence and make it fluent. You will understand that it is normal can communicate in a foreign language.
52. Use a dictionary while watching a movie. In films often use the same words. So that by the end of the show you exactly fill up your vocabulary.
53. Learn and use the phonetic transcription. Record speech with the transcription. This will help you not only to learn the correct spelling, but also to improve pronunciation.
54. Learn a few rules of pronunciation. Many people think that pronunciation in English completely random. But in fact, most of the words are read by certain rules.
55. Record your own voice. This is a wonderful way to hear and correct his mistakes, especially for those whose mispronunciation no one correct.
56. Use a computer analysis of pronunciation. This may be for you more interesting and productive employment than just voice recording on tape.
57. Examine the maximum number of words from one category (eg, wildlife). This will not only expand your vocabulary, but also facilitate the memorization process through semantic relations, established in your head.
58. Relax abroad. This is not only a good opportunity to practice English in a situation where you can not use another language, but also a great motivation to improve your English in a few weeks or months before trip.
59. Create drawings to the words you want to learn. In particular, if you are creative. It's much more interesting than just write words and their translations.
60. Get a girlfriend or boyfriend, a foreigner. Agree date with conversations in English - it's a great motivator to improve their knowledge.
61. Organize training on the tandem principle. The idea is that you can play the role of the teacher of your mother tongue, as well as English Learners. In both cases, you speak in English, but this is a very good practice.
62. Sign up for the exam in English. Even if you do not need it. The fee for the exam such as TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS or FCE, can serve as a great motivator for a more serious study of the language.
63. Simulate your accent. Select the actor - such as Robert De Niro - and try to talk like him. It was not his voice, of course, and try to copy the pronunciation.
64. Use a monolingual English dictionary. Begin to use instead of bilingual dictionaries monolingual. This will help you to stop to translate words in your head while you are talking or listening. In addition, you vocabulary with new words that you encounter while using the dictionary.
65. Communicate or send emails to your friends in English. To many it may seem strange or embarrassing. But if you react to this venture, as a kind of club of English, then all at once it becomes easier.
66. Go to the English or Irish bars. Menu, TV shows, magazines - all in a foreign language. And also a good chance to meet foreigners and practice their conversational English.
67. Buy electronic phrase. Although many electronic dictionaries are not as good as paper, yet they have one great feature - they reproduce the words.
68. Study the word lists of your electronic dictionary. Look at the last 30 words you looked in my dictionary. Remove one of them ones that you feel are absolutely useless. The rest through several times per day.
69. Change the OS language to English. Changing the language on the phone, computer, video camera and so on. D. English cause to use it on a daily basis.
70. Set goals. Decide how many hours you want to spend on training, how many words you want to learn or what grade you want to get on the exam.