how to improve english

Various versions of the English language exist. Begin by identifying the category you fall into and start by improving the clarity of your speech.

Grab that pad of Post Its you have laying around that you rarely ever use and start labeling the things around you. Even if you already know the simple stuff, do it anyway. Just thinking of these things in English before you think of it in your native tongue will get you thinking faster and when it takes less effort, you ll feel the progress you re making.

As you go about your day, there s bound to be some English words that you run into that you don t fully understand. This is when you whip out your handy dandy notebook! Scribble down the word and then when you go home, you can look it up. Instead of thinking, Gosh, what was that word I saw on the menu at the cafe? you ll flip right to the page and learn a new word. If that s a little 2003 for you, just whip out your smartphone. Start a note (or whatever app you want to use) that s dedicated to new English words. Then every so often you can refer back to it and make sure you remember them all.

If you have a few friends who are great at speaking English, hang out with them! Invite them over to dinner! So, your home becomes an English hub. Find a tutor to do some one on one with. Do a language exchange, where you can teach them your language and they can teach you theirs. Immerse yourself in it as much as you can! What it boils down to is that you must avoid your native language as much as possible. It s tempting to get home from work and sit down, turn on your TV, and revert back to your native tongue with those you live with. Don t do it! Set time aside to speak English every night, even if it s just for an hour. Keep the TV to English, keep the radio to English, keep everything to English as much as possible.

They are attractive, they tend to have many short articles or simple plot lines, and they come in many subjects (science, literature, self improvement). But more importantly, they are well illustrated. The pictures will allow you to understand many words without having to use a dictionary.

Everyone has their own learning style. Some people learn with their hands, some with their eyes, some with their ears, and some are a combination of the three. Your best friend may be able to recite English poetry after hearing it once when you need to see it to understand. Once you figure out how you learn, you can cater your studying habits to your abilities. And what s more, you can stop wasting time on methods that don t work for you. If your teacher talks and talks and you remember nothing, you can start taking notes. If you re reading a book and can t remember a thing, you can start reading it aloud to yourself. There s ways around everything.

Even English speakers could stand to learn root words! Since there are so many words in this dang language (around 750,000 in certain methods of counting way more than other comparable languages), learning root words can help cut you to the chase. When you see it, if you know the root word, you may not even have to look it up