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Hi Bob the Canadian here.
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In this video we are going to look at six things that you should be doing everyday to help improve your English.
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Learning English takes time and practice.
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Here are six things that you should be doing everyday to help improve your English.
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Number 1:
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You should be reading.
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I highly recommend that you read the news especially because you may already be familiar
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with what is happening in the world in your own language.
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And this allows you to make a connection when you read the news in English.
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You should also be reading a good book.
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You may want to start at kid's books, work your way up to young adult fiction, and then
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work your way up to everyday fiction.
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It also helps if you read slightly above your level.
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You don't want to read too far above your level as this becomes too difficult.
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You should also try to read books that are based on movies that you have already watched
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either in your normal language or in English.
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And last of all, and this is the hardest one.
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You should always read everything at least two or three times.
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I recommend that you read it two times right away, especially if it's a short news article,
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and then read it again later in the day or the next day.
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The second thing that you should be doing is listening.
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You should definitely listen to the news.
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Having already read the news in English, listening to the news in English will cover the same
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stories and allow you to reinforce what you have learned in your reading.
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You should also definitely be listening to music.
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Music is catchy, and it's fun to listen to and it has the added advantage of: you like
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listening to it more than one time.
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So if you listen to a good song a number of times, you start to learn the words in the song.
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I also recommend that you watch at least one short English TV show everyday.
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I find TV shows better than movies because you get to know the characters and their particular
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way of saying those words.
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And lastly, the same as with reading, you should try and listen to things more than once.
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When you're watching a YouTube video or another video, be sure to rewind and re-listen to parts
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that you've missed.
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The third thing you should be doing every day is writing.
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You should be writing at least three or four sentences every day in English.
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You should also be using some sort of online spell checker and grammar checker.
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But writing only goes so far by itself.
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You should really think about joining an online English learning group, either on Facebook
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or another website, so that other people are reading what you have written.
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This also helps to turn writing into more of a conversation, where you're encouraged
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to answer questions that other people ask.
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The fourth thing you should be doing is speaking.
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You should be speaking to help improve your pronunciation.
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You should find recordings where people demonstrate how to pronounce something and then you should
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repeat the words after them.
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You should also start to talk to yourself.
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And I know this sounds a little bit funny, but if you have an opportunity when you are
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driving in a car by yourself, or when you just have some time to yourself, you should
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try to have a pretend conversation with yourself.
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This really helps to start to bring the vocabulary and other things you have learned to the forefront of your mind.
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You should also try to record yourself speaking and then listen to it again later.
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If you record yourself speaking English and then listen to it later your ear can hear
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some of the mistakes that you have made and you can correct them later.
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The fifth thing you should be doing every day is vocabulary building.
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You should set a goal for how many English words you want to learn in a year.
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And then divide that by the number of days in the year.
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If you were to learn 3 new words in English every day, you would learn over 1000 words in a year.
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And although this isn't enough to become fluent.
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Learning 1000 words outside of your reading, listening, and other practice is just a really
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good idea to help build a solid vocabulary foundation.
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The sixth thing you should be doing is having an English conversation.
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This can be one of the hardest parts about learning English.
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But you need to find a native English speaker that you can have a short conversation with every day.
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If you can't find someone to talk to every day, at least find someone that you can talk to once a week.
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If there is no native English speakers in your area, try to look at websites like italki.com
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or preply.com to find someone who you can pay via Skype to have an English conversation.
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You can find people at very reasonable rates.
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If cost is an problem, another option is to try and find someone who wants to learn your language.
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Meet with them via Skype or in a café, spend 15 minutes speaking your language, and then
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spend 15 minutes learning English with them.
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This is a great way to learn English at no cost.
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Well that's a number of ways that you can practice English every day.
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If you do all six of these and make a real effort after a few months your progress in
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English will be incredible.
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Bob the Canadian here.
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Learn English with Bob the Canadian.
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Thank you so much for watching and have a great day.