In this English lesson, I'm going to
talk about five things that you can
do today to improve your English learning.
Are you ready for number one?
It's right here in my hand and it's get a journal.
Get a journal and use a journal.
By get a journal, I mean go to
a bookstore and buy one of these.
And by use a journal, I mean this.
Inside of a journal, you will have lots of pages
and some of them will even have dates on them.
You can use a journal to write down
the new words that you learned that day.
You can use a journal to write
down what you're planning to do tomorrow.
You can use a journal to
practice some writing each day.
And then when you go back and look at what you've
done after a week or two, you'll be really impressed.
And you can use a journal to make little drawings.
Sometimes when you're learning a language,
making little drawings of words you're
learning is very, very helpful.
So recommendation number one from Bob
the Canadian get a journal.
I don't know if you can see this one says 2024.
This is actually Jen's journal for the flower farm.
But I mean, they're multi use.
If you get a journal, you can
use it for your English learning.
And I do think one of the biggest values with a journal
is when you look at it at the end of a month
or the end of a year, you can look at it and
be impressed with all the work that you did.
So recommendation number one, get a journal.
The second thing I recommend you do
to improve your English learning today is
to tell someone that you're learning English.
When you learn English, sometimes it's
easy to keep it a secret.
It's easy to do it by yourself at night
and not tell anyone that you're actually doing it.
But you should tell someone.
Tell a friend, tell your brother, tell your sister,
tell your Mom, tell your dad, tell someone at
work, tell someone that you are learning English.
The reason I recommend this is because if you
tell someone, then that person's going to ask you
how it's going every once in a while.
Every once in a while they'll say,
hey, how's your English learning coming along?
How are things going with your English learning?
And then you'll need to kind of report to them.
So it holds you accountable.
In English, when we say someone holds
you accountable, it means they ask you
about your progress on something you're doing.
So if you tell someone that you're learning English,
they will hold you accountable a little bit every
once in a while, hopefully in a nice way,
they'll ask you how your English learning is going.
So recommendation number two, tell
someone that you're learning English.
Recommendation number three, set reminders.
Set reminders in creative ways, like don't set an
alarm clock to go off the same time every
day to tell you to study English, although that
might work well, but set reminders in different ways.
Maybe subscribe to someone's YouTube channel and click
the bell notification so you get notified whenever
they put out a new English video.
Maybe use something like Duolingo or another app where
the owl on Duolingo will remind you if you
don't practice your English for a few days.
Maybe do something simple like just have a calendar.
And on the calendar, write what you're going to do each
day of the week so that it reminds you what to
do. If you just learn English whenever you feel like it.
If you don't have reminders or external things telling
you to study, you might forget to do it.
So do things that remind you that you need to study.
Maybe subscribe.
Maybe use something like Duolingo or
maybe something simple like a calendar.
Recommendation number four, get involved with
an English speaking community online.
Be active in that community.
This could be as simple as finding a
computer game that you can play where you
can interact with other English speaking players.
Maybe via text chat or voice chat.
Maybe you can do this.
Find an English teacher on
YouTube who does live lessons.
Watch the live lesson on YouTube and interact
with other learners in the chat while you're
listening to the lesson. In English, of course.
Or do something as simple as
leave a comment below a video.
Even if the Youtuber doesn't respond, the act
of writing that comment is the first part
of a conversation and maybe they will respond,
or maybe other people in the
comments will respond to you.
Or if you can find a game that has
a discord server or some other method of communicating
with other people and join it. On Facebook, you
can often find English learner groups.
Find a group that's active where you
can practice your English speaking skills.
So number four, be active in some
kind of English speaking community online.
Whatever you think would be most enjoyable for you.
Number five, set challenges for yourself.
These can be daily challenges or weekly challenges or
monthly challenges, but create little goals that you need
to reach each day, each week, or each month.
It can be something like this.
Learn the 500 most common English words
this month, or speak in the past
tense for five minutes straight today.
Or maybe learn ten new adjectives to describe people
and use them in written sentences before the end
of the day. When you create little challenges for
yourself, it just helps you progress because you get
a little bit of excitement every time you finish
one of your challenges.
When you reach your goal, you'll be
happy that you accomplished that goal.
So number five, set some challenges.
Here's another one for you.
Listen to a new English song every day this week.
Be as creative as you can be when you
set these challenges, and if you want, you can
even give yourself a little reward whenever you reach
the end of a challenge and you accomplish it.
So number five, set some challenges
and have fun with it.
Well, hey, thank you so much
for watching this little English lesson
about five things you can do
today to improve your English learning.
Hopefully you can put all five of these into practice
this week and hopefully it does help you. Remember
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