Improving English Learning

5 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY

TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH LEARNING

BOB THE CANADIAN
YouTube Channel
Jan. 9, 2024

In this English lesson, Bob will teach us 5 things that we can start doing today that will help improve our English learning. We might be surprised at how easy it can be to make our learning go a bit better. These suggestions are quite straightforward, and Bob guarantees we will find them helpful. 😉

⌛ Remember: Always watch the video three times. Twice today with English subtitles on, and once tomorrow with the English subtitles off. This will reinforce the English we have learned!

EXPRESSIONS FROM THE VIDEO

1. GET A JOURNAL
Use a journal (a yearbook) to write down the new words that you learn day by day, to practice some writing each day, to make little drawings (as a “picture dictionary” to help you improve your vocabulary).

2. TELL SOMEONE THAT YOU’RE LEARNING ENGLISH
If you tell someone, that person is going to ask you how your learning is going every once in a while, he/she will hold you accountable a little bit every once in a while. In English, when we say someone holds you accountable, it means they ask you about your progress on something you’re doing.

3. SET REMINDERS
Use the bell notification (on English YouTube channels, for example), use something like Duolingo or another app to remind you haven’t practiced English for the last few days. You can also use something simple like a calendar. If you just learn English whenever you feel like it, if you don’t have reminders or external things telling you to study, you might forget to do it.

4. GET INVOLVED WITH AN ENGLISH SPEAKING COMMUNITY ONLINE
Be active in that community: find a computer game that you can play where you can interact with other English speaking players (via text or voice chat); find an English teacher on YouTube who does live lessons (you can interact – in English, of course – with other learners in the chat while you’re listening to the lesson, or simply you can leave a comment below the video).

5. SET CHALLENGES FOR YOURSELF
Create little goals that you need to reach each day, each week, or each month (for example, learning the 500 most common English words this month; speaking in the past tense for five minutes straight today; learning ten new adjectives to describe people and using them in written sentences before the end of the day). Creating little challenges for yourself just helps you progress because you get a little bit excitement every time you finish one of your challenges – when you reach a goal, you’ll feel happy that you accomplished that goal.

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