5 ways to improve your English every day Learn English Daily
hello everyone and welcome back to
english with lucy now since i’ve been
having a little bit of criticism
constructive criticism over my really
really long introductions i’ve decided
to get straight into the video so today
i’m going to be teaching you five ways
that you can learn english on a daily
basis so you know in my last video I
spoke about immersion immersing yourself
in the English language I’m going to be
showing you some ways you can do that on
a daily basis I know there are a lot of
videos on the Internet they’re talking
about ways that you can fit English into
your everyday life but honestly when I
watch them I sometimes think duh yeah
obviously of course I’m going to watch
movies listen to the radio and read
books like that that’s pretty obvious so
I wanted to talk to you about some other
ways that you might not have thought of
before
we’ll see you might have heard of some
of them but I often think that the best
ideas are the simple ones that just
simply hadn’t occurred to you yet
so hopefully I’m going to give you some
of those today the long introductions
with little updates about my my life and
my silly stories but we try something
new anyway let’s get started the first
tip is switch everything to English now
you know when you look at your friends
phone and you’re looking for something
and you say oi Tom why is this in French
and they say ah sorry I’m just trying to
learn French your friends a very clever
person but we can take that a step
further so by switching all of your
gadgets I’m talking your phone your TV
your microwave your computer your tablet
everything into English or the language
that you are learning you will be just a
step closer to immersion it will also
remind you on a daily basis that you are
learning English because it’s easy to
forget that you’re learning a language I
often forget that I’m learning Italian
until I see a pizza or an apple spritz
and I think
haven’t studied everything today no it
doesn’t have to stop there something
that I like to do is when I buy a new
piece of furniture or I buy a new you
know hair product or something you know
you have all of the instructions in
every single language I try to only read
the instructions in the language that
I’m learning and try and work out what
they mean and see if I learn some new
vocabulary on the way so again this
isn’t groundbreaking stuff but it’s a
nice way of incorporating English into
your everyday life you know if I’m
reading the nutritional information on a
packet of cereal I’ll read it in Italian
before I read it in English just to see
how they would word something and you
can really look into it you can see how
in your language it’s written in a
certain word order but then in English
it’s a different word order it’s really
quite interesting so try that one out
now the next one learn a skill now we
always talk about the four English
skills don’t we listening reading
speaking writing that’s what we’re
always examined on in our tests at
school I’m not talking about practicing
one of these skills in English I’m
talking about another skill like a hobby
take a hobby and learn it in English I
personally find it very very boring to
sit down with a book and learn and
dedicate myself I’m much more likely to
learn a language if I’m doing something
I enjoy and I spoke about this in my how
I learnt Spanish video the thing I
enjoyed was my ex-boyfriend not that in
joint MA yes the thing I enjoyed was
conversing with my ex-boyfriend so I was
doing that in the language I was
learning but I didn’t even realize it at
the time I was really really improving
with Spanish skills and you can do this
too with English something I’m really
interested in is cooking so I like to
take Italian dishes and read Italian
recipes and follow Italian instructions
and watch Italian recipe videos if I
make an Italian dish once a week then
that’s about an hour and a half or an
hour of Italian immersion every week so
that’s a really nice way of
incorporating the language into your
everyday or your weekly life maybe you
could set out an
laughs night where you try to make an
English or American or Australian dish
our food really really isn’t that bad
especially our puddings and our cake if
I have a recipe to recommend to you I
would say try making brownies which is
an American recipe or sticky toffee
pudding which is I think I’m pretty sure
it’s an English recipe we always have it
at English dinner parties but there were
loads of skills that you could learn
strictly in English you could learn to
knit in English you could play board
games in English as long as it’s
something consistent that you do on a
daily or weekly basis in English you’re
so much more likely to take it seriously
because it’s something that you
genuinely enjoy tip number three is use
an app or program on a daily basis to
improve your English so it’s all very
well attending a language course or a
language school once a week twice a week
but something else that’s really really
helpful is doing a little bit every day
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scaring I always talk about multitasking
because multitasking has changed my life
I was never productive I never got
anything done I would always prioritize
my leisure time over my work and once I
learned to multitask I realized that I
could have leisure time and do the
things I was obliged to do at the same
time and you can do this too I want you
to learn to multitask effectively and
use that to improve your English so
think of the mundane tasks that you do
every day
obviously commuting is a big thing going
on public transport for me something
that takes a massive massive chunk out
of my day is it’s my hair and makeup I
have to be on camera I like to look a
certain way on camera so I have to spend
a little while doing my hair and doing
my makeup and I find it really really
boring
I enjoy hair and makeup but every single
day it feels like such a waste of time
so I started watching educational videos
whilst I was doing my hair and makeup
because I didn’t have to concentrate
100% on what I was doing and so for me
the thing I’m learning at the moment is
about filming and video production I’m
trying to make my quality better I’m
really really trying and so that’s very
time consuming and I have to watch whole
videos to learn one small skill so I’ll
have them on whilst I’m doing my hair
and makeup and I’m learning something
whilst doing something I have to do but
another really really cool thing is that
I’ll see a video that’s maybe 30 minutes
long and I will challenge myself to
complete my hair and makeup in those 30
minutes so you’re saving time you’re
doing something you have to do and we’re
learning something new do it with
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can really really transform your
productivity as it did with mine now
number five is something that can
improve your grammar your vocabulary
your pronunciation your speaking you’re
listening you’re writing you’re reading
it can genuinely improve everything and
this is
identifying where you are lacking this
is something that you will have heard me
mention before in videos but I’m
reiterating it and repeating it because
I think it’s so so so important you
might have heard me say before don’t
wait for somebody to educate you educate
yourself don’t sit in the classroom and
wait for a teacher to teach you the
present simple teach it to yourself and
identifying where you are lacking really
plays a big part in this on a daily
basis if you’re using a little bit of
your English language and you see that
you’re really you can’t use the
conditional write it down and make a
note that that day you are going to
study what you don’t understand the next
day if you were listening to the news
and they were talking about a storm and
you really couldn’t understand what they
were saying that day you have to study
storm vocabulary the next day if you’re
having a conversation with somebody from
Scotland and you’re really struggling to
understand their pronunciation that day
you have to revise Scottish
pronunciation and then instead of being
in a classroom of 30 people who are all
studying the same thing you could call
it one-size-fits-all one teacher is
giving knowledge to everyone some may
need it some may not you are taking in
the knowledge that you need nothing more
and nothing less and day by day you will
start improving so much more quickly
than your peers so I do think that
number five is my favorite tip actually
in English identifying where you’re
lacking and then educating yourself
there are all the resources in the world
on the internet you can have private
teachers you can use grammar videos like
the ones on Abba English you’ve got
YouTube here there are loads of fabulous
native teachers here and just ready to
explain things to you if you have a
question it’s highly likely that tens of
thousands of people before you have also
had the same question the real question
is finding the answer and you should be
able to find it because it will be there
right guys that’s it for today’s lesson
I hope you enjoyed it I hope you learnt
something
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