60+ ways to improve your English / 60+ things you can do to improve your English

Have a read of the below list and we are sure you will find a lot of helpful tips to improve your English :

1. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Be confident.
2. Surround yourself in English. Put yourself in an all English speaking environment where you can learn passively.
3. Practise every day. Make yourself a study plan. 
4. Tell your family and friends about your study plan. Get them to push you to study and also don’t let them interrupt you.
5. Practise the 4 core skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. They all need to be worked on for you to improve.
6. Keep a notebook of new words you learn. Use them in sentences and try to say them at least 3 times when you speak.
7. Do a lesson at least once a day.
8. Use your body clock. If you’re not a morning person, study in the afternoon.
9. Plan to take a test. You’ll find that you work harder when you need to study for something.
10. Give yourself a long term goal. Focus on working towards it.
11. Give yourself short term goals too and reward yourself when you achieve each one.
12. 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.
13. Figure out how you learn. It can be by memorising, reading, speaking, summarising or other methods. Find out how you study best. It can be in a quiet place by yourself or with a group.
14. Get help! If you don’t understand something you’ve got to ask someone. Ask your teacher, classmates or friends for help.
15. Review and review and review! Make sure that you take the time to review things you have studied in the past.
16. 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.
17. Don’t be in such a hurry to move up a level. Concentrate on the level you are at now.
18. Watching TV gives you the chance to hear something correctly the first time. This is better for high-level students. It can be great practice for speaking to native English speakers so you don’t have to ask them to repeat themselves!
19. Newspapers are a good place to find passive constructs. Read through an article and see if you can find the passive sentences.
20. Read for the general meaning first. Don’t worry about understanding every word, then go back and look up new words.
21. For a word you don’t understand in a sentence, look at the other words around it. They will give you a hint. Try to guess the meaning from the context.
22. When you learn a new word, think of all its other forms: Beautiful (adjective),beauty (noun), beautifully (adverb).
23. Learn prefixes (dis-, un-, re-) and suffixes (-ly, -ment, -ful), these will help you to figure out the meaning of words and build your vocabulary.
24. Use English whenever you can. It’s as simple as that!
25. 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!
26. You can’t learn English from a book. Like driving a car, you can only learn through doing it.
27. The most natural way to learn grammar is through talking.
28. To become a better writer brainstorm as many ideas and thoughts onto paper without worrying about grammar or spelling. Then think about the structure. After that, write your piece using good grammar and spelling. Finally, read it through or give it to someone else to check for mistakes.
29. Sing your heart out! Show the world your beautiful voice! Learn English songs and sing along with them to improve fluency.
30. Get a penfriend or use chat rooms, forums and community sites. If you can’t speak to someone in English, this is the next best thing.
31. Nobody likes to hear their own voice, but be brave and try it! Record your voice and listen to your pronunciation and intonation. It will help you to identify your problem areas.
32. English dictionary as it will help you to keep thinking in English and not translating.
33. If an English dictionary seems scary, there are learner’s dictionaries for English students of your level.
34. Don’t become too reliant on your dictionary. Your dictionary should be an aid, not your main teacher. Try to guess the meaning of words rather than going straight for your dictionary.
35. Don’t give up! Stay positive! Sometimes you will feel that you aren’t learning quickly enough. Everyone feels like this, don’t worry about it. You’ll get there in the end.
36. Enjoy it! We learn more when we are having fun!
37. If you get nervous when speaking, take two deep breaths before you say something. You’ll speak better when you feel relaxed.
38. You are never too young or too old to start learning English. Don’t make excuses not to learn. What are you waiting for?
39. Procrastination can stop you from being successful. To stop procrastinating, it’s important you understand if your procrastinating is to avoid studying, or if it is your bad habit.
40. If you haven’t gotten the results you wanted yet, it’s not because you’re bad at languages, it’s because you haven’t found your own special way of learning yet.
41. Don’t worry about making your accent perfect. It’s an important part of your cultural identity to keep your accent. Native English speakers enjoy hearing English spoken with an accent.
42. There are many types of English: British, American and so on. None of these is wrong or not as important. English is English.
43. Instead, be aware of the differences in American and British English and use your words accordingly.For example: Elevator (US) / Lift (British).
44. You can’t ignore phrasal verbs (two words verbs), there are hundreds of them in English and they’re widely used. The more you focus on their meaning, the more you’ll be able to guess the meaning of new ones. You’ll start to recognise their patterns.
45. Use your intuition. Go with your gut feeling, you’ll be surprised how often your first guess is the right guess. Like we said before, be confident.
46. Gather your thoughts. Take a second to think about what you’re going to say. You know the grammar, but maybe you don’t use it correctly when you speak.
47. Meet new people. Make the effort to mix with English speakers in your town. You could join a club or go to bars where foreigners hang out.
48. Be the person to start conversations in English. Try to keep the conversations moving and use listening words (‘really?’ / ‘go on…’/ ‘what happened then?’) Don’t wait for others to speak to you. Get in there!
49. Debate. Discuss topics in a group. Each person should choose a viewpoint (even if you don’t agree with it) and debate it within the group. Focus on the person who is talking. Concentrate on the speaker with your ears and eyes.
50. It’s not enough to only learn English words. You can teach a parrot English words but that doesn’t mean it can speak English! You still need to have an understanding of grammar.
51. Verb tenses are used by English speakers to talk about the timing of actions. You might not have the same expressions in your own language. It’s important that you know these tenses and when to use them.
52. English has many irregular verbs. You should drill yourself on them.
53. Keep it up! If you take a break from speaking English, you will find that your level decreases and all your hard work have been wasted.
54. in mind that it takes longer to improve when our level is high. Usually, the fastest progress is made when we are beginners. Don’t think that you’re suddenly not learning anymore, it’s just less noticeable progress.
55. Idioms can be difficult to memorise, but they are great fun to use and they’ll make your English more colourful.
56. Make use of the internet. It’s full of resources to help you learn: BBC Learning English; learnenglish.ecenglish.com
57. Think about your strong and weak points. Write down which areas you want to improve on and work on improving them. Of course, don’t ignore your strong points. Congratulate yourself on how well you’ve done!
58. Unlearn your mistakes. You probably make the same grammar mistakes over and over again. Use English tests results as a study tool. Go over your mistakes and choose one or two that you want to focus on. Use your favourite grammar book to check the rules.
59. For fluency, try image training. Before you go to that restaurant think through what the waiter is likely to say to you. Think of what phrases you are going to use.
60. The easiest one — Sleep! You’ll learn more after a good night’s sleep. You’ll be able to concentrate more.
61. Take an English course in an English speaking country.
62. Have you thought about getting a job or doing an internship abroad?
63. Get yourself a qualified teacher. Who wants to learn the wrong things?
64. Nobody can learn all of the English languages. No need to worry about trying. A useful shortcut to learning is that in English we have lots of words that have the same pronunciation, but a different spelling and meaning.
65. When you are on your English course, be prepared for your class. Do your homework as soon as possible and hand it in on time. Review your notes and your last lesson a few minutes before the class.
66. Don’t get distracted in class. Focus on the lesson, don’t stare out of the window. Don’t be late, arrive a few minutes before starting the lesson. Don’t sit next to people who won’t speak to you in English.
67. Find a comfortable, peaceful place for quiet study. You need a place where you can focus 100%.

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