4 Simple, Everyday Habits To Improve Your English... Every Day!

4 daily habits that will help you to improve your English, because learning English is a marathon not a Sprint, the creating daily English have it easy and your success is inevitable as long as you set yourself up with a simple system to follow that's what we're doing right now let's get into it.

 

1. Listen to English everyday

There are lots of different ways to do this:

• Podcast with
• Audio books
• Ted Talks
• TV series
• YouTube

 

Make sure you set an achievable amount of time to do it in 5 minutes 10 minutes a day

I also want you to identify the source of your listening earl

I prefer to read well that's great awesome but I want you to try reading with audio

Practice with imitation technique that's just three simple steps

Step1.  Listen and read >>>  listen to what I say and read the words on the screen as I say them

Step 2.  Imitate me >> Be listening to what I say but then they'll be a pause so that you can repeat what I said you need to copy me exactly as you see me

Step 3.  Shadow me >>> you're going to be listening to me I'm saying what I'm saying at the same time

 

2. Pronunciation practice

you should be practicing your pronunciation everyday

• practicing you invitation
• tongue twisters
• Reading out loud
• do this pronunciation practice with your listening practice

when you're listening to the audio book that you're reading listen to then press pause then read the same paragraph again yourself while it's fresh in your mind and do your pronunciation practice doesn't have to be a lot a paragraph a day but that is a really awesome way to combine your listening your pronunciation along with reading and vocabulary building skills.

 

3. Practice speaking 

• find a speaking partner
•  Pay for a tutor
• Language exchange
• online English Community
• Immerse yourself in English

Practice speaking everyday so even if you can't make this goal happen every day  maybe you try and do it every second day maybe twice a week whatever it is set the goal and make it consistent promise yourself that you're going to see it through.

 

4. Practice Writing  

4.1. Write about your dreams in English as soon as you wake up in the morning keep a notebook beside your bed and write down your dream as soon as you wake up.

 4.2.  Write a poem or a paragraph of a story one that you can continue riding or the time over the course of a week

4.3. Review the TV series/movie that you watched

4.4. Reflect on what happened during the day so at the end today

Tips o Write Better in English

1. Start small

text messages email , Instagram , write a Facebook post,translate one of the emails,WhatsApp message, Daily Journal, 

2. Accuracy

3. Read

what kind of tone, how do they structure their writing notice, formal or informal in that type of writing you could even practiced imitating your favorite read 

4. Learn to pre- write

outline , mind map , vocabulary web, list of important vocabulary words or thoughts

5. Think in English

6. Make mistakes

mistakes are some of the best ways to learn and improve in the future; read it again, check it ,arase it, Edit it and rewrite it.

7.  Find a writing partner

 

Daily habit

Focus on a really simple daily habit 5 minutes 10 minutes of Writing practice. Remember that it does take time to create these habits, make sure you keep it short and sweet like a 10 minutes a day that's it you are much better off spending 10 minutes a day every day rather than spending one hour and then not doing anything for a whole week, it's not the amount of time that you spend studying each day it's the frequency and the consistency of showing up that's going to help you to reach her English goes faster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to Practice Speaking English Alone

1. Speak into the mirror

2. Collocation fun

3. Practice with short audios 

 4. Imitating actors

5. Send audio messages

6. Imitate the English foreigner

7. Shadowing

8. Responding

9. Describe what you are doing

10. Sing in English

11. Tongue Twisters

12. Practice idioms with Youglish

13. Immerse yourself in English

14. Goals and habits

15. Join a community

source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gpmxN5SlNM&t=779s

1. Speak in front of a mirror.

Watch the shape of your mouth and your facial expressions

2.Read aloud to yourself.

It helps you better understand how words are written in English as well as how they're spoken

Read a lot and out loud

3.Listen to spoken English and repeat it back.

Play a video with a native speaker talking in English. After each sentence, pause the video and repeat the sentence aloud. Rewind the video and listen to the native speaker again, then repeat it again yourself

4.Narrate your actions.

Say what you're doing or thinking aloud in English. As you go about your day, pretend you're a character in a novel and tell your "reader" about your every move.

5.Memorize a poem or speech and recite it.

Find a short poem or speech you love. Go line by line to memorize the passage you've chosen—just this act is already helping you become more familiar with English.  >> Storytelling. Try to use them when you speak with someone.

6.Test out tongue twisters.

Use these silly phrases to practice problematic pronunciation.

7.Record yourself speaking and play it back.

Read a passage in a book aloud, then listen to yourself speaking. Any sort of voice recorder will work for this—most smartphones have recording apps. It can be awkward to listen to your recorded voice, but it'll help you recognize issues with your pronunciation.

If you have a recording of a native English speaker reading the same passage, play your recording first, then play theirs. Note where your pronunciation differs so you'll know what you need to practice more.

8.Sing along with English lyric.

Learn the lyrics to English-language songs that you like. Popular music can be great because you'll also pick up some of the slang and casual speech that most people use in daily life.Listening to English-language music is a good way to immerse yourself in the language. Initially, you might find that you don't understand all the words. But as you continue to listen, you'll start understanding more and more.

9.Dictate in English instead of writing.

If the app shows the word you meant to say, you'll know your pronunciation is clear.How the virtual assistant understands what you've said also helps you improve your pronunciation.

10.Read English subtitles aloud.

Watch a show in English with subtitles, reading along. Try to say the words at the same time as the person on the screen (although this can be difficult if there's a lag in the subtitles). This will help you with the speed of your speech as well as your pronunciation

11.Commentate a sports broadcast.

Put the game on mute and make the play-by-play yourself in English.

12.Practice shadow reading.

Get a transcript and read along as someone is speaking. For this exercise, you'll need both a written transcript and a video of a person saying those exact words. When you start the video and the person starts speaking, speak aloud along with them using the transcript. Try to mimic their speed, rhythm, and speaking style as closely as possible.

Learn opposites / antonyms

Your brain grasps these opposites a lot easier than simply absolutely random.

Collocation fun >> Collocations are words that are commonly used together.

E.g. Heavy rain ( NOT) big rain)

Rehearse. Spaced repetition method.

Speak English Like a Native Speaker

What do you do >. wadeje do

What do you want >> wadeje wan 

What are you doing >> wadeje doin

What are you up to  >> wadeje wupto

What are you having .>> wadeje havin

Do you want a coffee >> djewana coffee

Would youlike a coffee >> wudjelika coffee

Does he like it .>> duzy like it

Wah he happy >> wuzi …

Has he called you? >> Huzi …

I am going to go >> amgonna go 

I want to go >> awonna go

Shall we go >> shwe go

I should have gone >> ashude gone

I could have gone >> akude gone

5 Tips to increase your confidence in english 

1.Small challenge + small success = More Confidence

Learn 2 idioms today , I’m gonna study for 10 minutes today

I’m gonna improve  my level over the next six mounths

Do’nt be thinking big chalenges, like  I’m gonna study for 3 hours  today

But, set yourself up to win 

2 tips:

Read just below your level 

When you’re listening take very small passages,maybe 30 seconds, and jut listen and repeat.and you can then slowly up the challenge.

I live in bali and I have lived here for 5 years >> I live in bali and I have lived here for 3 mounths.

2.Push your confort zone 

Pat Flynn >> the 3 second rule >> within three seconds you must take action.

You don’t have time to think.You just go and act.

3.Prepare well and practice lots

Confident is not a trait or a charecteristic, it’s not fixed, it’s more like a skill. It something you can develop and you must develop and bulid over time , a bit like playing the piano, the more you practice the better you get.

4.Identity

For now  + Not Yet 

I’m a beginer for now.I’m not expert yet

5.Don’t compare yourself to a native speaker

 Remeber, confidence comes with practice, and it  takes time to bulit confidence.

7 ways to Improve your Communication Skills in English

Communication , it’s a skill, it’s like a muscle that you need to develop

1.Speed, 2. Emphasis, 3. Speaking clearly, 4. Simplicity , 5. Body language, 6. communicating ideas, 7. copying others.

1.Don’t speak to fast

Speed  and fluency are not the same, use the pause before you speak and in the middle of speech 

If I had a lot of money/ I would purchase/ a majestic mansion/ on the rocky coastlines of spain

2.Emphasis

Adverb can really help you emphasize the meaning of something!

If I had a lot of money definetly  purchase  a majestic mansion

When you stress something you can increase the volume

What’s ___ about it is _____

Is spain an interesting place to live? >> Yes, What ‘s  interesting  about it is the beautiful scenery.

3.Speaking clearly

4. Simplicity 

5. Body language 

6. communicating ideas 

7. copying others

7 smart Way  to think in English

1.Seround your self with English

English moment : 10 minutes a day >> 20 >> 30 minutes a day , build up slowly

As fun and enjoyable not study time. Like Listening to Podcasts, Internet Radio, song, Reading some book, magazines, blogs, Watching TV series, Film in English 

There are 3 think you can do:

A.You can listen passively >> you’re reducing stress and pressure 

B.Repeat words you hear >> you can start to use it more fluently

C.Repeat Phrases you hear

2.Only use words you know that you already know

If you lack the vocabulary  don’t tranlate it, because it is not good for your fluency.

You must focus 100% on fluency, there are two things you can do ,number one, you can either try and find a way round it. (paraphrase), Number two,  Let Idea go ( say something else)

3.Starting small and building up with this dealy habit

Word >> Collocations >> Chunks or Phrases >> Sentences 

You can look at picture or look in around you do his as daily habit

T shirt >> Blue T shirt >> she’s wearing a T shirt

4.Talk to yourself

Talk about our plan for the day, describe an acivitty you’re doing, review wha you’ve done  today. 

5.Write in english 

Writing a shoping list , Leave message o the family, Put a ‘post it’ in english, write a diary, wrie a blog 

6.Practice with others

7.Be monolingual

Step by step practice language

Collocation fun 

Choose a topic, get some vocabulary and collocations

practice make sentences. 

present in  front the mirror

Practice with short audios

lingq.com

Listen and pick out the stressed words

Repeat the stressed words

Pick out and repeat interesting Chunks or phrases 

Try and repeat the audio/test, giving a summary,

Use your own words, not reading!

You can also Record yourself as you repeat or summarise the story /text

(record by vocaroo) 

finally go back to typescripts and compare with you said  with the original 

Imitating actors

when you watch a film so you're copying that body language that gestures that facial expressions that accent that voice that would she or copying everything

Send audio messages

Shadowing

   Repeat them but you're very close behind them

Responding

where you hear a question you've got no idea what it is you get an idea quickly and you answer right 

Describe what you are doing

In the park and you'll seeing different things you describe what you see now I suggest you start with words right so there you are out and about in the path you see bicycle Harrison Path trees bag woman owned and you're using words right and then right as you're walking around the park you make collocations little chunks of language right riding a bike a long path a cluster of trees the woman glued to her phone picnic having a picnic maybe right then you go on to make sentences this is a bit like that we mentioned earlier the prepare practice present so you're going from words to collocation two sentences right there's a man strolling in the park there's a woman riding a bike and also there are lots of trees that's a woman glued to her phone and she looks like she's about to have a picnic

Word  >> collocation >>  Senttence

Sing in English

Check out this website right lyricstraining there's lots of stuff for free and you can have a bit of fun with it let me show you reflect how it works

Practice idioms with Youglish

Input list of idiom  to youglish

Join a community

How Listen to a fast original conversat

1.Listen to a fast original conversation

we're going to be following four steps the first step is to listen to a fast original conversation clip we're going to be listening to eclipse Nathan was a native English speaker and he's going to be talking a little bit about his experience with an international public speaking organization called Toastmasters then 

2. Listen to a slow version

Number to we're going to listen to a slow version of this clip this means that hopefully in the slow version you're going to catch each word you're going to hear words that you didn't hear the first time because it was pretty fast but in the slow down version it's going to be a little bit clearer for you to hear each word

3. Write everything that you hear

step number three is to write everything that you hear whatever you hear Nathan say whatever you hear me say try to write exactly what you hear and in 

4. Check your writing

The fourth step we're going to check your writing with the original transcript you probably see oh I got that weird correct I didn't know that that's what they said but I wrote it correctly and you'll probably also see oh wow I didn't hear that at all maybe there some linking the production that you didn't know before so this is a good way to test what you know and also test what's difficult for you to that you can improve that maybe you don't write the correct word because you simply don't know it maybe it's a new vocabulary word for you

this is a good way to expand your vocabulary so they were going to be talking about three words that you're going to hear in the conversation with Nathan so hopefully those will just add to your vocabulary today is YouTube lesson is a free sample of my course

Source:

https://youtu.be/uZ8FG9Lwnhs

5 Speaking Rules you need to know!

 1. Don't study grammar too much

Studying grammar will only slow you down and confuse you. You will think about the rules when creating sentences instead of naturally saying a sentence like a native

2. Learn and study phrases

If you know 1000 words, you might not be able to say one correct sentence. But if you know 1 phrase, you can make hundreds of correct sentences. If you know 100 phrases, you will be surprised at how many correct sentences you will be able to say. Finally, when you know only a 1000 phrases, you will be almost a fluent English speaker.

3. Reading and Listening is NOT enough. Practice Speaking what you hear!

It is normal for babies and children to learn speaking first, become fluent, then start reading, then writing. So the natural order is listening, speaking, reading, then writing.

When you learn a second language, you need to read material to understand and learn it. So students is reading, listening, speaking, then writing.

4. Submerge yourself

They can speak English not because they went to an English speaking school, but because they had an environment where they can be around English speaking people constantly.

You don't have to go anywhere to become a fluent English speaker. You only need to surround yourself with English. You can do this by making rules with your existing friends that you will only speak English. You can also carry around an iPod and constantly listen to English sentences. As you can see, you can achieve results by changing what your surroundings are. Submerge yourself in English and you will learn several times faster

 even if you don't have many English speaking friends, you can constantly surround yourself in English using your MP3 player. 

5. Study correct material

A common phrase that is incorrect is, "Practice makes perfect." This is far from the truth. Practice only makes what you are practicing permanent. If you practice the incorrect sentence, you will have perfected saying the sentence incorrectly. Therefore, it is important that you study material that is commonly used by most people.So use these practice times as a time period to practice the correct material you studied. Not to learn how to say a sentence.

Summary

These are the rules that will help you achieve your goal of speaking English fluently. All the teachings and lessons on Still English  follow this method so you have the tools you need to achieve your goal right here on  Still English.

The Step By Step Instructions

1: Listen And Repeat At The Same Time

2: Finish Repeating The Whole Material

3: Record Your Voice

4: Finish Repeating The Whole Material All At Once Yet Another Time

5: Rewind And Repeat The Words You Can't Say As Many Times As You Need

6: Ignore The Meaning And Focus On Speaking

7: Finish Repeating The Whole Material For Three Times

8: Record Your English

9: Find A Different Piece Of Material And Do Action 1 To 8

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npr.org/programs/ask-me-another

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Source

The Step By Step Instructions – Let's Make You Speak Like A Native! - Ken xiao

Lesson 5: Where Are You?

 1. Speak

2. Listening

1.I'm thinking of

2.Rumor has it that

3.I'm here to

4.I have something

5.Thank you for

6.Let's say that

7.That's why

8.The point is that

9.It occurred to me that

10.I've heard that

3. Vocabulary

Meeting people

4. Lirics Song

imagine

5.Lingq 

16 - A More Exciting Job

17 - On the Highway

18 - Getting Dressed

19 - It's Time for Lunch

20 - Going to Work

 

6.  Youglish

1.I'm thinking of

2.Rumor has it that

3.I'm here to

4.I have something

5.Thank you for

6.Let's say that

7.That's why

8.The point is that

9.It occurred to me that

10.I've heard that 

7.  VOA Learning English

Level 1 - Lesson 4: what is it

8. Speaking Practice