Learning English 300% Faster

Sebastian Archer

 

 

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How to Think Like an English Language Master

Because Relaxing and having fun can improves your memory then Focus on making English learning fun. 

Treat English like a game – fully focus when you sit down to play, and relax at the same time. Don't avoid mistakes, try to make more mistakes, fail your way to fluency,so start making mistakes! Enjoy making them, laugh when you do. Just keep on communicating, and mistakes will naturally disappear over time.

 

Kids have tolearn languages. They are simply forced to so that they can communicate. They have real motivation. Also, children enjoy the process of learning. They have not yet been taught by bad schooling that it’s wrong to make mistakes. Children learn to speak languages in the real world. They want to express something to their mother or father or friend. They want to make a sentence right there so that someone can understand them! They learn the language purely because they want to communicate. Every new thing they learn they use in a sentence and in a real conversation immediately. And this is exactly how you should learn English from now on. And one last thing to consider. Children actually take a huge amount of time to learn any language. Think about it, they practice pretty much full time from when they are about one-and-a-half years old until they are seven years old, and older. They practice and learn several hours every day, for years. Adults, on the other hand, often spend a few hours a week practicing a language.

 

We tend to have less time to dedicate to the task. So, hour for hour, adults put less time in, but can progress faster because as adults we can study the language  with more intelligent strategy. The techniques and strategy in this book aim to help you turn into a refined English- learning machine.

 

How to Feel Great & Start Winning at English Right Now

Speaking full sentences from the very beginning when you’re learning English. learn a few very common words then immediately use them in full sentences. Repetition of the basics, with slight variations, is the key to any skill,So from the beginning, make realistic sentences. And practice the simplest structures 10,000 times, like Bruce Lee. At every level of English, make long sentences, because you can. And because that is how we speak naturally.You are instantly using the language – you are speaking English just as you will on the streets of London one day.

Study with someone who understands this, and who is intelligent enough to use these strategies to help you make these full sentences and have little conversations. We’ll talk more about how to find and train such a conversation partner later on. Every time you sit down to learn English, try to have a little conversation. And repeat and repeat and repeat.Practice the new word inside 5 or 10 or 20 different sentences. You will feel great because you are instantly using it in real spoken English! Do not feel like you have to practice lots before you begin talking in English. You can begin talking in English NOW. So just begin. Put every new word into 10 or 20 full sentences and see how good it feels. If you’re alone, speak it out loud anyway. Talk to yourself – it’s a great learning habit. Don’t be shy, no one is going to hear you. And if you’re in a café, you can pretend you’re on the phone or something.

 

l Focus on creating full, real English sentences every time you learn a new word

l Repeat the simplest, most useful English structures many times – they are the bread and butter of your language skills

l Recognize every little success, every little win – and celebrate them all!

l Stop comparing to others, unless you just love competition

 

This is how you can feel like you are winning from the very first lesson – by speaking full sentences all the time.And just as important is to notice that you are speaking a full English sentence and celebrate. Feel pleasure about it, reward yourself.

One thing you may have to do is stop comparing your English skills to other people. Comparison robs yourself of joy, and it’s completely unimportant how well other people are doing. Just stay focused on your own adventure with English, notice the little steps forward you are making every day, and celebrate them.

 

l Get out of the classroom!

l Focus on grammar last, not first

l Start speaking with native English speakers as soon as possible

 

The Three Biggest Mistakes English Learners Make

Mistake One: Learning in a big class of other students

Mistake two: Learning grammar first

Mistake Three: Speaking with non-native speakers

Many students feel like they have to prepare for a long time before they are ready to

speak English with native speakers. But the truth is the best way you learn is by speaking with native speakers, even from the very beginning.

 

How to Start Speaking with a Native Speaker Right Away

Explain to them how you want to learn,Ask them to:

1. Write down new words you learn

2. Intelligently ask you to repeat those new words in full sentences

3. Come back to those new words and phrases every now and again.

Using spaced repetition to help you remember them

4. Keep the lesson light, relaxing and fun

5. Mostly ask you how to say certain things in English, so you have to

make full sentences. And also sometimes have little conversations with

you about things that you want to talk about

6. Talk less and listen more

7. Be very patient and relaxed. Just let you lead the lesson with your

questions

8. Don’t give you all the answers. Wait patiently for you to remember

them. Maybe give you clues to help you

 

In your lessons 80% of your time should be you, the student, carefully forming sentences and learning to really enjoy it. The conversation partner or teacher should

be listening and talking less than 20% of the time. This will empower you and make

you progress very quickly in your speaking skills.

Start actually speaking English (out loud) right from the beginning

Speak English every day if possible, even for 5 minutes, even to yourself Find a native English speaker to practice with, in person or online  It’s only important that you have daily (or very regular) conversation sessions with a native speaker who understands your level, and also who realizes how you are learning – using sentences and patient, careful repetition, without too much focus on grammar. And they should help you follow the strategies in this book.

 

Train them to communicate with you in the best possible way, following the ideas in this book Even before you find a conversation partner, why not make a commitment to yourself that you will speak English every day, for at least 5 minutes. Even if it’s to  yourself. You can talk to yourself in the shower every morning. Holding two sides

to a conversation out loud. Just have fun with it. You can just describe what you see when you walk into the kitchen for breakfast. Even this little bit of practice every day can make all the difference.

 

Study a Course IN English – NOT an English Course!

Don’t go to the UK or the USA to study in an English course,Study another course – like yoga, cooking, salsa or acting – which requires you to understand and use real English all day long, Make friends with native speakers as you do, Have a conversation partner who can help you with the language of your course, in-between lessons, If you get a job in the UK or the USA, make sure you are speaking mostly with native English speakers.

 

How to Destroy Your Fear of Speaking English

Start having fun and celebrating wins to build confidence and destroy fear of speaking English , Work out why you are nervous about speaking English, start to work your way around it, Start speaking today – build competence to create confidence, Develop your curiosity to turn your focus onto other people and overcome your fear, Use phrases to control the speed of conversation, so you are more comfortable with it, Drop perfectionism, be happy with poor quality conversations, Build momentum, day by day.

 

When you are in a speaking situation don’t focus on yourself. Instead become extremely curious. Become curious about the language, the words and sentences. Become curious about the conversation, the things you are talking about. And most importantly, become extremely curious about the person you are talking to – that’s the most powerful tip of all, it’s important to control the conversation, with nice English expressions that communicate to the other person that you need a little help, and a little patience.  To control the conversation Use phrases like these regularly:

Sorry?

Sorry, can you repeat that?

Could you speak a little more slowly please?

What does ______ mean?

I don’t quite understand you

How do you say _______?

Can you explain that again please?

What do you mean?

 

Laugh at your mistakes, smile when you say something correctly, Don’t worry if it goes badly,It’s just part of life. Smile, take a break. Start again later., Build Momentum ,This is probably the most important part of destroying your fear of speaking in the long run. That is to practice English daily. Every single day, every week, you will get a little more confident, and enjoy it a little more, and feel a little less nervous.Then one day, you will simply be 100% loving it.

 

Listen to English Every Day to Boost Your Comprehension Skills

Listen to English every day, actively and passively, even if it’s in the background

Do not delay – start listening today!

Learn a subject you’re passionate about, using an English spokencourse

Watch movies you already know in English

Listen to audio books in English

 

Use Pareto 80/20 Efficiency – Stop Wasting Time on Words That Matter Less!

Focus on learning the words and phrases you will use most often in real conversation, Think Pareto Efficiency – what is the 20% of English that gives you  80% of your English speaking ability? Learn the most commonly used 100 words first, then the 300 mostcommon words, then the 1,000 most common, and so on,  Use smaller language dictionaries – they naturally focus on the most common words

Focus on learning the 20% of words that are used in 80% of English conversation. Learn the words that matter most

 

Prepare the English You Personally will Use the Most

Focus on the English words you personally will use the most in conversation, Learn the vocabulary for your hobbies and topics of passion, Predict what situations you will get into, and what topics you will discuss in English, focus on this language first. Learn phrases and expressions that help you to express yourself in the most natural way for your personality

 

Find Friendly Words in English Which You Already Know

Find the English cognates in your language (the words your language shares with English) and start using them first, Find the cognates which are also most commonly spoken in English, Put them into sentences straight away, recognize and celebrate how much English you can already express.

 

Memory Tricks to Remember New English Words

Use visual memory tricks to help memorize new vocabulary

Collect these helping images in familiar physical locations in your mind, otherwise known as building a memory palace

 

How to Use Spaced Repetition for Effortless Word Memory

Use spaced repetition techniques to memorize new words more effectively

Use Anki App to help with this

Combine this with the visual memory techniques for a very powerful memorizing system

 

The key to masterful memorization is to give your mind the information again before you forget it. Spaced repetition means timing the new information so that you are exposed to it shortly after you first learn it, then a slightly longer period after that. Then a longer period after that. And so on. For example, when you first learn a new English word, it’s ideal to remind yourself  of it 30 minutes later. Then 2 hours after that. Then one day later. Then 2 days after  that. Then you can take a one week breaks. Then you should remind yourself of it 2 weeks after that. Then a month break. Then 2 months. And so on.

 

The Power of Flashcards, Done the Right Way

50. Use flash cards to help you memory

51. Use images on your flashcards, a picture says a thousand words

 

Create SMART Goals to Double Your English Learning Speed

 

52. Use clear goals to help focus and speed up your learning

53. Create goals that are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-Bound)

54. Don’t’ take your tests too seriously, just use them to give yourself some direction, keep having fun and stay relaxed as you learn

 

How to Quickly Prepare and Master English Language Tests

55. Understand that learning English to pass a test is a different skill tolearning English so you can speak fluently, with confidence

56. Focus on mock exams – create the exact conditions you will have in the actual exam

57. Always practice like it’s the real thing, create the same pressure

58. Break down carefully the exact requirements of the result you desire

59. Record yourself, analyse your performance, use a conversation partner to get accurate feedback

 

Create a Daily Habit of English

61. Create a daily habit with your English, so it does not require willpower to learn

62. Build your habit slowly at the beginning, but commit for 30 or 40 days

 

The rocket must travel 384,000 km to the moon. But 85% of its fuel is used up in those first 2 km as it fights against gravity and leaves the Earth’s orbitputting any new behavior into your life is like making a rocket take off. Your rocket fuel is willpower. And you will need a lot of it in those first 30 or 40 days.

 

Pronunciation: Know Your Mouth, the Fast Physical

System

63. Train your brain to recognize the differences between very similar sounds in English

64. Use your muscles to learn how to make a sound – your lips, tongue and vocal chords

65. Pay attention to the rhythm of a sentence as a native speaker says it, copy this rhythm

Firstly, listen but don’t always trust your ears alone. Our brains are trained to hear similarities between sounds, so this actually works against hearing small differences. There are two ways to train yourself to hear and then recreate the different sounds. Firstly, compare very similar-sounding words like ‘where’ and ‘were’ or ‘two’ and ‘to’ or ‘this’ and ‘these’ – really, minutely, start to hear and feel the differences between them. As soon as your brain can recognize them, that fine distinction will stay with you permanently. Secondly, use your feelings and muscles to learn the sounds. Not just your ears

 

Simplify Grammar – How to Eat Grammar Books for Breakfast

Don’t overemphasize grammar, you naturally absorb a lot of it as you learn to speak, as children do

When you encounter a new piece of grammar, look for new words, new word forms, and surprises

Use flashcards to help remember grammar rules too

 

Push Yourself from Simple Practice to Real Conversational Mastery

As you practice (daily, I hope) begin to push yourself so that you are playing with the language. When you prepare for your daily practice in speaking, bring lists of topics and situations you want to talk about or role play with your conversation partner. And the key is to really throw yourself into it. Try to express things in interesting ways. Have fun with it, argue, suddenly express things with passion, go off on tangents and talk about something else suddenly – just because you thought of it. In other words, start speaking like you do in real life conversation.

 

To Sound Like a Native, Use Filler Expressions Like a Native

Learn ‘filler expressions’ early on, to sound more like a native speaker when you talk

Listen out for them in movies, and when you hear any native speakers talking – the filler expressions they use in-between the content of a sentence

Play with them, throw them into conversation when you are thinking, have fun with it

 

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Always remember that native speakers only use 1,000 to 1,500 words in normal day-to-day communication. In fact, many people use less than 1,000 words! And they can express everything they want to.  You can say almost everything you need to say in English with just 700 words. And you can just about say over 70% of all communication in English with just 300 words.

Now, don’t you think it’s a good idea to learn what those 300 words are and learn them first?

 

Don’t fear mistake

So start making mistakes! Enjoy making them, laugh when you do. Just keep on Communicating, and mistakes will naturally disappear over time. Don’t fear mistakes in English, embrace them. They are your friends. Laugh at your mistakes, smile when you say something correctly. Enjoy every little bit of communication going on. When you smile, your conversation partner will smile and relax, and you will smile and relax even more.

 

Make full sentences

Make full sentences from the very beginning when you’re learning English.

it’s a very big mistake to sit in English classes learning independent lists of words and grammar with other students. Because firstly, it’s incredibly boring, and secondly, at the end of classes like that you have not been

speaking real English.

 

Repetition with slight variations

Repetition of the basics, with slight variations, is the key to any skill

So from the beginning, make realistic sentences. And practice the simplest structures 10,000 times, like Bruce Lee.

At every level of English, make long sentences, because you can. And because that is how we speak naturally.

You are instantly using the language – you are speaking English just as you will on the streets of London one day.

Every time you sit down to learn English, try to have a little conversation. And repeat and repeat and repeat.

Practice the new word inside 5 or 10 or 20 different sentences. You will feel great because you are instantly using it in real spoken English!

Get out of the classroom! Focus on grammar last, not first, Start speaking with native English speakers as soon as possible

 

Native English Speaker Online

Find a native English speaker to practice with, in person or online.

You have websites like Italki.com – where you can find native English teachers to

teach you online for as little as $5 an hour.

Start actually speaking English (out loud) right from the beginning, Speak English every day if possible, even for 5 minutes, even to yourself, Train them to communicate with you in the best possible way,

 

Use English in your real life situations

You want to be able to use English in your real life situations, so go and get into real life situations where you have to use English to enjoy those situations. Don’t go to the UK or the USA to study in an English course. Study another course – like yoga, cooking, salsa or acting – which requires you to understand and use real English all day long, Make friends with native speakers as you do, Have a conversation partner who can help you with the language of your course, in-between lessons,  If you get a job in the UK or the USA, make sure you are speaking mostly with native English speakers.

 

Take advantage of the famous Pareto efficiency principle, that 20% of things create

80% of the results. Focus on learning the 20% of words that are used in 80% of

English conversation

 

600 commonly used words

Here are around 600 easy-to- visualize commonly used words by category;

 

Verbs: beat, bend, break, build, burn, buy, call, carry, catch, clean, close, cook,

count, cry, cut, dance, die, dig, draw, drink, drive, eat, explode, fall, feed, fight, find,

fly, follow, go, grow, hang, hear, jump, kill, kiss, laugh, learn, lie down, lift, listen,

lose, love, marry, melt, mi, stir, open, pray, pass by, pay, play, pull, push, run, see,

sell, shake, shoot, sign, sing, sit, sleep, smell, smile, speak, say, stand, stop, swim,

taste, teach, think, throw, touch, turn, wake up, walk, wash, watch, wear, win, work,

write.

 

Adjectives: alive, bad, beautiful, big, large, blind, cheap, clean, cold, cool, curved,

dark, dead, deaf, deep, dirty, dry, expensive, famous, fast, flat, female, good, happy, hard, healthy, heavy, high, hot, long, light, light, loose, loud, low, male, mean,

narrow, new, nice, nuclear, old, poor, quiet, rich, sad, shallow, short, sick, slow,small, little, soft, strong, tall, thick, thin, tight, ugly, warm, weak, wet, wide, young.

People: adult, man, woman, baby, boy, brother, child, boy, girl, crowd, daughter,

family, fan, father, friend, girl, grandfather, grandmother, human, husband, king,

man, mother, neighbour, parent, mother, father, player, person, president, queen,

sister, son, victim, wife, woman.

 

Job: actor, army, artist, author, doctor, job, lawyer, manager, patient, police, priest,

reporter, secretary, soldier, student, teacher, waiter.

 

Food: apple, banana, beef, bottle, bread, breakfast, cake, cheese, chicken, corn, cup,

dinner, egg, food, fork, knife, lemon, lunch, oil, orange, plate, pork, rice, salt, seed,

soup, spoon, sugar.

 

Drinks: coffee, beer, beverage, juice, milk, tea, water, wine.

 

Color: black, blue, light, dark, brown, gray, green, orange, pink, red, white, yellow.

 

Animal: animal, bird, cat, cow, dog, fish, horse, mouse, pig, wing.

 

Transportation: bicycle, boat, bus, car, engine, gasoline, plane, ship, ticket, tire,

train, transportation, truck.

 

Location: airport, apartment, bank, bar, bridge, building, camp, church, city, club,

country, court, farm, ground, hospital, hotel, house, library, location, market,

office, park, restaurant, room, school, space (outer space), store, shop, street/road,

theatre, town, train station, university.

 

Clothing: coat, dress, hat, pants, trousers, pocket, shirt, shoes, skirt, stain, suit, t-

shirt.

 

Home: bag, bathroom, bed, bedroom, book, box, card, ceiling, chair, door, dream,

floor, garden, gift, key, kitchen, letter, lock, needle, note, paint, page, paper, pen,

pencil, photograph, pool, ring, roof, soap, table, telephone, tool, wall, window,

yard.

 

Electronics: camera, cell phone, clock, computer, fan, lamp, laptop, network,

program, radio, screen, television.

 

Body: arm, back, beard, blood, body, bone, brain, disease, ear, eye, face, finger,

foot, hair, hand, head, heart, knee, leg, lip, mouth, neck, nose, shoulder, skin, sweat,

tear, toe, tongue, tooth, voice.

 

Nature: air, beach, Earth, fire, flower, forest, grass, heat, hill, ice, island, lake, leaf,

moon, mountain, nature, ocean, plant, rain, river, root, sand, sea, sky, snow, soil,

earth, star, sun, tree, valley, wave, wind, world.

 

Society: attack, ball, bill, contract, death, dollar, drug, election, energy, exercise,

game, God, gun, heaven, hell, magazine, marriage, medicine, money, murder,

newspaper, peace, poison, price, prison, race (ethnicity), race (sport), religion,

science, sex (the act), sex (gender), sign, sport, team, technology, war, wedding.

 

Art: art, band, instrument, musical, movie, music, song.

 

Materials: clay, copper, diamond, dust, glass, gold, material, metal, plastic, silver,

stone, wood.

 

Math/Measurements: centimeter, circle, corner, date, edge, foot, half, inch,

kilogram, meter, pound, square temperature, weight.

 

Directions: back, bottom, direction, down, east, front, inside, left, north, outside,

right, side, south, straight, top, up, west.Seasons: season, Fall (USA)/Autumn (UK), Spring, Summer, Winter.

 

Numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,

30, 31, 32, 40, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52, 60, 61, 62, 70, 71, 72, 80, 81, 82, 90, 91, 92, 100,

101, 102, 110, 111, 1000, 1001, 10000, 100000, million, billion, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, number.

 

Months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September,

October, November, December.

 

Days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

Sunday.

 

Time: afternoon, day, evening, hour, minute, month, morning, night, second, time,

week, year.

 

Once again, as you read through these categories, when other examples jump to

your mind with an image attached – add them in and memorize them too!

 

Write it all down.Then translate it

Write down a long introduction about yourself (in your native language). Pretend

you are introducing yourself to someone who is just meeting you, and you’re

saying all you can about what you love and hate, like to do in your spare time, find

interesting, talk about, joke about. Write it all down.Then translate it. Learn phrases and expressions that help you to express yourself in the most natural way for your personality

 

Spaced repetition

Use spaced repetition techniques to memorize new words more Effectively, Spaced repetition means timing the new information so that you are exposed to it shortly after you first learn it, then a slightly longer period after that. Then a longer period after that. And so on. This way the new word is always fresh and feeling recent in your mind. It might sound strange, but it truly works. Try it out

 

Use Anki App to help with this, Combine this with the visual memory techniques for a very powerful memorizing system, Use flash cards to help you memory, Use images on your flashcards, a picture says a thousand words

 

Create SMART Goals to Double Your English Learning Speed

Setting concrete goals is scientifically proven to increase your learning speed. Our brains are simply directed by goals – the more specific the goals are the better.Your mind is like a heat-seeking missile. It locks onto a goal, and it just works towards it, gradually, over time, going faster and faster. Even when you sleep, your unconscious mind is working on how to get you closer to your goal. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-Bound. You can just drop the test at any time. It’s not the real goal. The real goal is to enjoy learning English, and to speak it fluently soon. The test is just to help you get there a little bit faster.Use clear goals to help focus and speed up your learning, Create goals that are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-Bound), Don’t’ take your tests too seriously, just use them to give yourself some direction, keep having fun and stay relaxed as you learn.

 

Pareto Efficiency

Always think Pareto Efficiency, what’s the 20% I should be focusing on to give me 80% of the results I desire?

 

Mock exams

All exam preparation, from the very first day, should be taking mock exams. Get

your English teacher or conversation partner to give you 2 or 3 mock exams –

exactly the ones that you will be taking – every week. Set a timer when you do them. Have them ask you the questions in exactly the same way you will be asked in the

real thing.Record your answers, or ask your conversation partner to write down notes. Afteryou have been through it, look at the expressions you used to answer the questions. Look at what you included, and what you missed out. Think, how can I improve that? Learn the right expressions for starting an answer. Learn the perfect reply, and see what you missed out. Look at where you wasted time and where you should have spent more time. Then, do the same exam again. Record it or have them take notes. Afterwards look at what you said. What you missed out. What you could have improve upon. Go away and practice by yourself.  Then, guess what, do the exam again. Every time set the timer so you have exactly the same amount of time you will have during the exam. Keep on doing this process,again and again and again. This way, when it comes to the real thing, you will sit down and feel comfortable, like you have done it a dozen times before. Because you already have! This is how you prepare for tests and exams in English. Get straight to the point. Buy all the preparation guides and booklets and mock exams that are out there. And always practice like it’s the real thing. There’s no point preparing any other way.

 

Make it a daily habit

it’s so important to do two things. One, create a real joy in yourself for learning English as we spoke about earlier. Two, make it a daily habit. I had to talk about this point because I see that this is where so many students fall down. Truly, it is always hard to put a new habit into our lives, even one as exciting and fun as learning English rapidly. One of the keys to learning English very fast is to study it with some intensity. This means doing something every single day. Many students improve a bit, then stop for a while. Then begin again and improve a bit, and then stop for a while. Don’t learn English this way. If you follow this ‘2 steps forward, 1 step’ back approach to English it will take you two years to make 20 steps forward.

Instead, just do it every day. Take 20 steps forward in 3 months. This habit-forming

intensity is a key success-trait of the best learners in the world Please imagine a rocket, about to take off and fly into space, then travel to the moon. The rocket requires a huge amount of fuel in those first few seconds and minutes. It must travel 384,000 km to the moon. But 85% of its fuel is used up in those first 2 km as it fights against gravity and leaves the Earth’s orbit. Then, as the rocket gets further and further away it needs less and less fuel to fly, until it is just flying automatically and easily, all the way to the moon. By then the rocket has great forward momentum, and it would actually need a lot of fuel to stop, or to change direction.  All the fuel is used up in just that first little bit of the journey.

 

Now, putting any new behavior into your life is like making a rocket take off. Your

rocket fuel is willpower. And you will need a lot of it in those first 30 or 40 days. A

lot. Especially if you have not studied English or any language before. The thing is you only have a small amount of rocket fuel to use every day. You only have a little bit of will power to use every day. The best way you can use this willpower is by forcing yourself to focus only on this new action – learning English. Don’t waste your daily willpower on anything else. Make learning English the only new thing you are doing for this month. So you won’t need to spend your willpower on anything else. Make your life as easy and simple as possible for this month, apart from English.

Then every day for the first 30 or 40 days, make an English-learning ritual. Early in

the morning is best. And every day make sure you do it. Before anything else. After

the first one or two months you will see that it becomes strangely easy to keep

doing. Your rocket is now flying through space. But first, you have to take off and get there. So prepare for some daily effort in those first few weeks. Create a daily habit with your English, so it does not require willpower to learn, Build your habit slowly at the beginning, but commit for 30 or 40 days.

 

Pronunciation

One more important factor relating to pronunciation is to listen to and copy the rhythm of full sentences as native English speakers say them. This is another reason

why it’s important to learn English in full sentences right from the beginning. Because in English, just like in any language, no word stands alone. To speak English well, you have to quickly master sentences, not words. Train your brain to recognize the differences between very similar sounds in English,  Use your muscles to learn how to make a sound – your lips, tongue and vocal chords, Pay attention to the rhythm of a sentence as a native speaker says it, copy this rhythm

 

Flashcards

Use flashcards to help remember grammar rules too, Read to help your English  Read a book, where you have already seen the movie version, Aim to understand most of it, don’t worry about understanding every single word.

To become more advanced, start playing with the language, express idle thoughts in creative ways, go off on tangents in conversation, experiment Also, you might find that you really want to say one that you always use in your own language. Find out the English equivalent and start using it.

 

Filler expressions

Learn ‘filler expressions’ early on, to sound more like a native speaker when you talk, Just to clarify, these filler expressions are the words and phrases people use in- between sentences. They are the expressions that sort of, how shall I put it… help you to find the words to say. They help you to express yourself. They fill the silence.

Here are a few examples of these common phrases in English:

Sort of / kind of

How shall I put it?We’ll see, we’ll see

What’s the word I’m looking for?

It’s on the tip of my tongue

To be honest…

Actually

See what I mean?

You know…

Oh! I see

By the way…

Wow!

Erm…

I’m not sure how to put this

Of course

By all means

Please, after you

Anyway

Not at all

Believe me…

Precisely

I get you

I don’t get it

No way!You’re kidding

After all

 

 

There are plenty more, start noticing them. And start using them. It’s a shortcut to

sounding like a native English-speaker. After all, we’re not always sure what to say

either!

Listen out for them in movies, and when you hear any native speakers talking – the filler expressions they use in-between the content of a sentence, Play with them, throw them into conversation when you are thinking, have fun with it

 

21 more resources

You are such a lucky English learner, because there are so many wonderful

resources online to help speed up your learning today. We’ve already mentioned a

few amazing resources. Like Skype and Italki.com for speaking daily with native

speakers. Vis-Ed.com, Anki App and Google Images for flashcards. TuneIn.com and

Youtube.com for listening daily. Here are 21 more resources that will make your learning journey so much easier and quicker!

l My Language Exchange

l Like italki.com

l Interpals

l Duolingo.com

l BBC English Language Resource

l Ted.com

l Memrise.com

l Google Translate

l Kantaris Media Player

l Fluentu.com

l Open Language.com

l MosaLingua

l Busuu

l The Polyglot Club

l Couchsurfing

l Meetup.com

l Forvo.com

l Rhinospike.com

l Lang-8

l Benny Lewis Course & Blog

l Tim Ferriss Blog

 

You now have more powerful English-learning resources at your fingertips for little or no cost than most English-learners who spend their lives sitting in expensive courses not progressing fast. Combine these resources carefully with the techniques and strategies that you are learning in this book. Experiment and see which ones work best for you, and you will start progressing at a much faster rate. To recover your English after a break, first aim to surpass your  previous highest level of English, Give yourself 2 weeks of passive exposure – watch movies, listen, read books or comics, Get back into speaking every day, Try not to take long breaks from English in the first place!

 

Thank you for reading. I wish you good luck on your English-learning journey!