15 Things You Can Do To Improve Your English

•  Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Be confident. People can only correct your mistakes when  they hear you make them.
• Surround yourself in English. Put yourself in an all English speaking environment where you can learn passively. The best way to learn is through speaking.
•  Practise every day. Make yourself a study plan. Decide how much time a week you are going to spend studying and stick to it. Establish a routine.
•  Tell your family and friends about your study plan. Get them to push you to study and also  don’t let them interrupt you.
• Practise the 4 core skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. They all need to be worked on for you to improve.
• Keep a notebook of new words you learn. Use them in sentences and try to say them at least 3 times when you speak.
• Do a lesson at least once a day.
• Memorisation of lists is one of the most common ways of learning vocabulary for a test. It’s only a good exercise for short term studying because you often do not retain the information that you have learned for a test.
•  Use your body clock. If you’re not a morning person, study in the afternoon.
• You will find words easier to remember if you try to remember an example sentence using that word rather the word on its own.
•  Plan to take a test. You’ll find that you work harder when you need to study for something.
• Saying that, it’s better not to study just to take a test. Think of the bigger picture. What can you do when you have a good command of English? How will the quality of your life improve?
• Give yourself a long term goal. Focus on working towards it.
• Give yourself short term goals too and reward yourself when you achieve each one.
• 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.