Name: Are You Really Improving Your English?
Uploaded: 2020-04-06T05:23:35.000Z
Duration: 6 min 26 s
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Hey, everyone, welcome to the Monthly Review, the monthly show on language learning where you discover new learning strategies, motivational tips, study tools and resource is, by the way, all the lessons and bonuses you're about to see can be downloaded for free on our website.

So click the link in the description right now to sign up for your free lifetime account.

Okay, today's topic is, Are you improving?

Am I actually getting better with my target language?

If you want to know how to check and see if you've improved or not, then keep watching.

Today you'll learn why assessment can mean the difference between fluency and failure.

How to assess your language skills even if your learning on your own and much more.

But first, listen up here this month, New lessons and resource is first, the writing.

With this cheat sheet, you'll be able to keep a diary in your target language and talk about your day inside.

You'll find phrases for common daily activities from morning tonight seconds.

If you love travel, then you'll love our brand new travel words and phrases, pdf e book Learn all the must know travel phrases downloaded for free right now.

Third must know words and phrases for your resume.

If you want to write your resume in your target language than this, next one minute lesson is for you.

Forth the top 12 April Fool's raises one of prank others and speak more of your target language.

Then you'll walk this April Fool's phrase list.

Fifth must know vocab for doing laundry If you need language for practical situations like doing laundry than this one minute lesson is for you, you'll learn how to say washing machine detergents, softener and much more to get your free resource is click the link in the description below.

Right now, they're yours to keep forever.

So have you ever wondered, Um, I actually improving with my target language?

Feeling like you're not improving can hurt your motivation.

On the flip side, if you notice yourself understanding more of the language than before, you can feel good, and that can fuel your motivation to keep going.

But it's not easy to spot your improvement.

It's not like going to the gym where you can see your muscles in the mirror.

What's assessment wth E easiest example of assessment is a test.

If you go to a language class, you'll get a test on the first day.

The goal of the assessment test is to understand where your language level is, and any tests after that is a way to see how much you've improved.

This is ongoing assessment, so assessment is checking where you are now and how far you've come with your language.

Learning assessment lets you see where you've improved and helped you find what you need to work on.

If you're serious about learning a language, it's one of the best things you can do to stay on track.

Stay motivated, correct your mistakes and reach fluency.

But assessing yourself is also hard if you're learning on your own, So what can you do?

Here's how you can assess your language skills whether you're learning with our program or not.

If you're a premium plus user, retake the assessment test.

Technically, you can only take this once, but if you get in touch with our support team will give you the link.

If you're using any other resource, find a way to test yourself.

Takes online quizzes anything that forces you to test your language skills.

An easier way to self assess your language level is to revisit old lessons.

You can do this with any program you're learning with.

If you truly made progress, then you should be able to understand the lesson.

If not, then you know that you need to review them some more.

Also something you could do with any language resource.

If you're using our program, try lessons from a higher level.

If you're a lower intermediate, try upper intermediate lessons.

If you don't understand anything, that's fine.

But if you do, then that's a good sign that you've improved and are ready for harder lessons.

For reading, check out our extensive reading books.

These are available for all levels from absolute beginner to advanced.

You can re read old ones or try harder ones to see where your current level is you'll find these books in our lesson library.

This will help you assess your reading and comprehension skills.

For speaking, use our voice recording tool.

If you could easily repeat the lines from the conversation, that's a good sign.

Or, if you're using another program, try to shadow the provided conversations.

If you can do it without a problem, then you've made progress and are ready to go to the next level.

Try and copy out our lesson dialogue by hand.

The point here is to see if you can write smoothly or not as a way of assessing your writing.

You can also take a picture of your writing and send it to your premium plus teacher.

If you're a premium plus member, you can ask your teacher to send you weekly assignments based on your knees, whether for reading, writing, speaking or listening.

And they'll provide you feedback so you can see where you are with each skill.

So to recap one, take our assessment test.

Three try harder lessons for Use our extensive reading books for reading.

Six right out dialogues by hand and seven.

Remember, the point of assessment is not to pass or fail, but to see where you've improved and where you need to work.

So thank you for watching this episode of monthly review.

Next time we'll talk about the easiest way to start writing.

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