17 Ways to Practice English Daily for Free | Go Natural English

Hello, welcome back to go natural English the difference between a fluent English speaker and someone who is struggling to speak English is Clear the key is consistency That means using English a little bit each day in this English tip lesson. I'm going to share 17 ways that you can use English Every day for free and they don't take a long time now you don't need to do all 17 of these every single day you can pick and choose Start with one that you find interesting and then when you want more ideas to do something different you can revisit This video make sure you watch all the way to the end because I'm going to tell you how you can learn English with me Becoming my students in my complete English fluency program the link to pre-register For information and to get a notification when enrollment opens again is in the description Now let's begin with number one. It is so important to Not wait until your English class or your English tutoring session to use English We need to find ways to Immerse you in English each day That means consuming contents in English one simple thing that you can do right now while you're watching YouTube videos is to turn the captions or subtitles on in English just click on the settings and turn the CC on and that way you can read and Watch this lesson at the same time The more inputs the better having subtitles on doesn't hurt your English You're simply able to exercise your reading skills and your listening skills at the same time you might try watching for the first time with the subtitles on and then the second time put the subtitles off and See how much you understand or if you want to challenge you can reverse that and watch the first time with no subtitles See how much you understand and then watch the video again a second time with the captions on Now on that note of consuming English a little bit each day. I highly recommend that you listen to a daily Podcast now if you like to stay up to date on world events The perfect podcast for you is the daily from The New York Times It's about 20 minutes long, which is perfect. It's not too long Not too overwhelming and 20 minutes for me fits Perfectly in my routine going to the gym or commuting to work Or if you walk a dog or need to do some chores at home 20 minutes is a great length of time So I recommend starting with the daily It might be a little bit advanced because it's meant for native English speakers. So if it is too difficult don't give up just Revisit it in a few weeks and see if it's easier to understand a big mistake that a lot of English learners make is that you Consume a lot of English materials, which is good But you stop there just because you can understand what you're listening to or what you're reading Doesn't make you fluent in English fluency means that you're able to communicate Your ideas in English through writing or speaking So make sure that when you are consuming materials, you're also writing and speaking to Practice speaking. You could Shadow the podcast you're listening to or this video right now For writing you could write some notes on what you listen to what did you learn? What was interesting or were there any new words that you'd like to look up afterwards? So make sure that you're not only Reading or listening to English that you're also speaking and writing another big mistake A lot of English learners have that's keeping them from fluency is lack of vocabulary We need to build your vocabulary a little bit each day So think about how you could add new to your vocabulary one way that I love doing This is looking at the word of the day on the merriam-webster dictionary Website so each day. It's simple they give you a new word That's usually a little advanced and you can write it down and try using it in your journal in your own Sentence another mistake that English learners often make is trying to translate Everything in your head when you're speaking However to improve your writing skills you should translate and Actually, it can be a really good exercise for you to try translating from English to your native language and really observe make note of how the languages express the same ideas Sometimes very differently If you would like a fun exercise to translate from English to your native language Try translating this video. There's a link in the description here on YouTube to Translate this video and once you do that Your name will appear in the description as well as a thank you. A lot of you might use social media Maybe you use Facebook or Instagram or Twitter? On social media don't just be an observer fine accounts to follow or friends who speak English and take time to comments in English on their posts or join a conversation in a group this is a really important way for you to develop your English skills because Writing for me was a great way for me to work on my Spanish skills. I remember when I was learning Spanish I would follow accounts on Facebook that spoke Spanish and I would comment on their posts in Spanish and it was a great feeling to see that people could Understand what I was trying to say. It's simple it's easy It's fast and its really good for shy learners. If you don't feel quite ready to speak with native speakers Try using English on social media a little each day Okay one mistake is to constantly focus on learning new things. It's great to learn new vocabulary expressions phrases grammar, but It is actually even more important to review what you've already learned it can take 20 times seeing the same word for you to understand and remember The meaning the pronunciation and how to use it in your own sentences Actively. So remember to review and be patient with yourself because really almost no one even native speakers Remember a word after the first time they see it. We need to repeat and review many many times The next tip might seem a little woowoo, or difference but I think it's really important to Envision yourself as a fluent confident English speaker. It's like meditation or visualization or affirmations Take a minute each day. Close your eyes and imagine Yourself in a situation where you're speaking English fluently Maybe you're giving a presentation in English Or maybe you're at a dinner with friends or coworkers and you're having a great conversation in English I want you to see yourself in that situation in your mind Because this helps to prepare you to make you feel familiar and therefore more confident when these Situations occur in real life. So use the power of your mind to improve your English fluency in order to create a new reality where you are a Fluent confident English speaker, we have to envision it first before it becomes reality Next don't wait for someone to start a conversation with you in English No native English speaker is going to come knocking on your door to start a conversation with you You need to be the instigator start a conversation with someone in English today it could be someone in person if you're so lucky to live in a place with other native English speakers, or It could be on social media online and it doesn't have to be with native English speakers. It could be with any English speaker at all Next don't depend on other people to tell you when you're making mistakes Each day. You can try speaking English It could be free speaking If you're more advanced where you just speak whatever is on your minds or it could be shadowing another material that you're listening to simply copying what you hear and Record yourself. This is so helpful If you record yourself You can listen, you can playback your speaking and notice where you might be making mistakes Or maybe where your pronunciation is a little off and that is the first step to improving your English skills Here's another tip for actually using English in real life think of a websites a product a service that you use where it's an english-speaking company and you can actually contact their support Maybe you have a question about the product or the service a lot of websites nowadays have chats for customer service So you could actually practice your English while you're asking questions about a product or service you're interested in and some businesses still have Old-fashioned phone lines so you could go ahead and practice your English for telephone calls By calling a company that's of interest to you Next you've probably heard this many times before but listen to music every day in English and don't just listen Sing enjoy yourself put emotion into this song because emotion feelings movement dancing will help you to improve your English because these are all ways that help our body and our Mine's to remember words and in many songs. You can pick up new vocabulary so choose a song that you enjoy learn the lyrics sing it dance it and Enjoy using English if you have no idea where to start I will share that one of my current favorite artists is SIA. So I recommend that you start there Next I have a personal tip to share. Hope you don't mind but if you live in a city and where there's tourism you could look at taking a tour where People would be speaking English with english-speaking tourists I recently did this with an Airbnb experience where I did a historical walking tour in English as a participant and this was a really fun way to use English in real life Of course, I don't need to practice my English because I'm a native speaker But I could imagine that doing something like this in English could really help you and I've done other Airbnb Experiences where the leader and the group we're speaking Portuguese and that really helped me to develop my language skills as well Next don't try to do everything Don't try to become fluent in English right away just Break down your goals into smaller steps and choose one small thing each day in fact Give yourself a deadline make an appointment with yourself each day to practice English so this is more of a strategic tip or a motivational tip to help you with your to help you with your discipline when I Really want to improve my skills in an area or I really want to get something done I actually make an appointment with myself using Google Calendar to do that thing to use Portuguese to practice Portuguese to read a little bit So this is more of a strategic tip But you can use this to make sure that you don't forget or you don't or you don't Oh, I don't have time today maybe tomorrow Create the time don't just depend on outside sources for English. I talked a lot about listening to podcasts music writing in your journal Looking up a word of a day and many other things but you can actually use English in your own mind throughout the day Try creating sentences. Oh, right now I am eating lunch and then I'm going to go to the gym or Whatever is happening in your day. You could describe people that you're seeing Oh, that woman has a really beautiful dress And so you're actually narrating your day in English The next tip that's related is when you go to bed at night before you sleep try Recapping or summarizing your day in English. So oh, I woke up at 6 a.m Then I had breakfast and so on and this will really help your fluency Do this each night before bed and you might be surprised that pretty soon you'll start dreaming in English Our second-to-last tip is that you at home can label different objects around your house so this will help you to improve your vocabulary when you actually put a sticky notes on an item at home and Label it with the correct vocabulary. That way you're seeing English everywhere you go finally last but not least perhaps my favorite way to use English each day is to think about how you could use English to help Someone or to make someone's day a little bit better. Could you give someone a compliment? Could you tell them that they look nice today or? That they have a nice dress on or their hair looks nice Maybe like their earrings just saying or could you offer to help someone maybe? You see someone who's struggling who needs help to do something and you can offer to help in English I still remember years ago when I was living in Japan and I was inside a subway station Completely lost I had no idea where I Had no idea how to get where I was going and a very nice Japanese woman stopped and offered to help me with directions and it was so simple, but so nice I really felt like People were there to help me and so perhaps you could help another English speaker today or make them feel good with the compliments Whoo? All right, that was 17 tips for using English on a daily basis to improve your fluency Confidence and speaking skills now I promised that I would tell you about how to be my student So if you would like a guide if you would like someone to help you each day to correct your English Someone to show you what to study and what to do each day, then you should get more information You should pre-register for my complete English fluency course You can do that by clicking the link in the description at gonaturalenglish.com slash Registration when you sign up for more information i'll tell you everything about the go natural English method How the course works the price and all the details make sure to sign up to get more information today because I only open the course a few times a year and only for a few days of Enrollment. So it's really important that you get the information you need in order to become my students Thanks so much for joining me here on YouTube and I hope to see you in the pre-registration if you do sign up for Pre-registration. I'll be sending you an email soon. If you have any questions, you can just hit reply and Directly ask me yourself Thanks so much for watching and I'll talk to you soon. Bye for now

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Length: 17min 37sec (1057 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 05 2019