1. Study English with Friends
Meet friends and study English together.

You can repeat your English vocabulary, do your homework together and help each other with English grammar. And why not try one of our games on ego4u. Studying with friends simply is much more fun.

It’s also a good oportunity to exchange ideas on studying in general. Maybe your friends have found out about a good way of studying more effectively. Or, who knows, maybe you can advise your friends on this?

2. Study English every Day
How many English words can I learn per day?

10 English words or phrases per day aren’t too many, are they? Just give it a try. You will find that you can learn them in next to no time.

So why not take a little time each day (Monday to Friday) to learn 10 new words?

Use the weekend to revise what you have learned during the past week(s). This way you’ll enrich your English vocabulary by 50 new words per week. (That’s 200 new English words after a month!)

3. Targets
Set small, achievable targets, e.g.:

* learn 10 new English words or phrases every day, Mondays to Fridays (repeat on Saturdays, relax on Sundays)
* unlearn one typical mistake before the next test (see our backlog analysis)
* study 15 minutes every day
* read the lyrics of an English song every week and try to understand its main content
* read and try to understand one short English text every week
* study English on ego4u every day ;o)
* …

Reaching your target step by step is much better than setting a huge target that you cannot achieve. Easy does it … and keeps your motivation up.

4. Learn English through Movies
Thanks to DVD, watching films in English has become an easy thing to do.

Choose your favourite film – you’ve watched that film a dozen times and probably know all the dialogues off by heart in your native language. So following the story will be easy for you.

Have paper and pen ready as you may want to jot down useful words or phrases that you wish to learn. English subtitles might be useful for that (although they might differ from what is actually being said).

If you are not used to watching films in English, choose a only few episodes – at the beginning it isn’t easy to concentrate on listening to the foreign language for a long time.

5. Learn English through Songs
Vocabulary needs to be revised again and again. Well, what could be better than studying vocabulary by listening to your favourite songs?

Read the lyrics first and try to understand them. You don’t have to translate the lyrics word by word, just try to find out what the song is all about. (Note: ‘Rap’ might not be practical as those songs usually contain slang words that not even ‘ordinary’ English native speakers know.)

Pick some words or phrases from the song that you would like to learn. If necessary, look up their exact meaning in a dictionary. A dictionary might also be useful to find other interesting phrases with the word.

Now, to learn the vocabulary, all you have to do is listening to the song again and again (that shouldn’t be a problem if it’s one of your favourite songs).

I would like to add... by using english in our daily conversation or by using when we mail our friends with our phone we can improve our english greatly (that works with me)

the key to study a language is proper environment. You can accelerate your language skill by setting tips from gray. Although, these steps also can be applied for another language.

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I agree with you, sometimes I do that as well. and really help me to improve my vocabulary as well as building sentences.

I also applied these tips when practiced German and Japanese and it worked like a charm but since this is an English forum so I write tips on learning English

English is actually not quite difficult to study, but it's tough to master it.
Currently I stay at a place where people speaks non proper English (with weird accent) and it affected me as well. My English quite messed up because I stayed here too long. I guess environment will decides what you learn.

Cheers.

nice tips, i will practice it. i have a bad grammar and i need to learn more for my better english skill.

that s a good tips
May I add one tips??
My tips it just simple: Practice your english (write and read) in HERE, Chat Life.
Am I right, guys??

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I've to agree with you, my English improving a lot by posting here since I forced to write English each time I post here

Hi Gray, thanks for the tips, I usually don't set any target for myself, that'll be some pressure, I don't like pressure, hehe... And 4 and 5 tips are also my ways, I watch lots of Hollywood movies, original English speaking, with Chinese sub title on the screen, improve my listening and learn new words at the same time, hehe... I have hundreds of English pop songs, help me a lot, I also like singing them, hehe...

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Those are great tips, really applicative. For me, the practice is the most important thing to do. Learning language is just like we absorb many things that need to be out, so if we don't let it out, it won't make us get use with it. "Just Let It Out!! Speak, Speak, Write, Write, if You have to Speak to Yourself with English.."

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Hi NaDhAre, I do agree with you, learning language needs lots of practice, think about our past, when we were young children, we kept listening and speaking, then we got able to use the language well as others, hehe... The more we practise, the more freely we feel with the language, hehe...

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