In this video, I'm going to share 7 free ways to improve your English in 2024.
And #7 is my personal favorite and also the most unusual, so make sure you watch right
until the end.
Of course.
I'm Jennifer.
Welcome back to JForrest English.
Now let's get started.
Number one, watch clips on YouTube.
You've probably heard that you should use TV shows and movies to improve your English.
What I'm recommending is you use a clip of ATV show or a movie, and you can find these
for free right here on YouTube.
What's a Clip?
A clip is a shorter segment of a full TV show or a full movie.
So a clip could be 30 seconds, 3 minutes, or 13 minutes.
Why should you use clips?
Because it's more effective.
If you watch a 30 minute TV show or a two hour movie, you're going to be exposed to
a lot of English, but you probably won't remember anything specific from that TV show or movie.
If you study a 32nd clip or a three minute clip, you can improve your vocabulary and
learn a lot of grammatical structures.
Plus, because it's only 30 seconds or three minutes, you can watch it again and again
and that repetition will help with your long term memory #2 Watch Ted Talks.
What's a Ted Talk?
A Ted talk is a presentation on an educational topic, and these presentations are a maximum
of 18 minutes.
So when you watch a Ted talk, you're going to see a professional speaker share a presentation
in English, which will give you a lot of tips and advice on how to improve your public speaking
as well.
Plus, these presentations are more formal, more academic, so you'll be exposed to more
advanced vocabulary and advanced grammatical structures as well.
And because they are on specific topics, you can find Ted talks that are very interesting
and you'll learn.
At the same time, you'll enjoy watching the Ted talk, and that will make it educational
for your own purposes and for improving your English.
And as a pro tip, join the discussion in the comments, because in the comments everyone
is going to discuss that Ted talk.
Talk about what they liked about it, their opinion on that and you can read the the discussion
comments and also participate and add your perspective as well #3 read blogs.
Blogs are short articles on specific topics.
So if you have a hobby and you're a photographer, you can find a photography blog and you can
read short articles about photography.
Now.
You can find a blog for professional reasons as well.
So if you're in marketing, you can find a marketing blog or a graphic design blog.
Or, if you're a pilot, you can even find a blog for pilots.
Reading is one of the best ways to improve your vocabulary, and that's how blogs will
help you.
And because they're all very short and they're on topics that you are really interested about,
you'll really want to read them as well.
So you'll learn about interesting topics and you'll improve your vocabulary, learn advanced
grammatical structures, and you'll see your new word being used in context, which is so
important for learning.
And just like with the Ted Talks, blogs often have comment section.
So you can join the comments and you can comment on topics that are of interest to you.
But you're practicing your English at the same time #4 Listen to Music.
This one you can just listen to any music.
All of the streaming services now have playlists, so you can go onto Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube,
and just find a playlist and have it in the background so you can use this as more passive
practice.
You don't have to specifically listen to the words, listen to the lyrics, just have it
on in the background while you're checking your e-mail or doing the dishes or driving.
And your brain is learning, even if you're not paying attention to it.
Your brain is learning pronunciation.
Your brain is learning sentence structure.
Your brain is improving listening skills.
Your brain is learning a lot passively, so music is great.
For more of a passive way to learn #5, write in English.
Writing is such a great way to improve your English because you're using your vocabulary,
you're using your grammar, you're using advanced sentence structure, so it's active practice.
You're using everything that you've learned in the previous tips.
Most students don't know what to write about, so here's something you can write about every
single day.
Summarize your day.
You can imagine you're writing to a friend, your sibling, your parents, your spouse, a
Co worker, your boss, and just tell them about your day.
You don't have to send it to them, just write it.
So set aside 5 minutes or 20 minutes a day and just summarize your day.
You can answer these questions.
What did I do?
Why did I do it?
Did I like it?
What did I learn?
What would I do differently?
And every day you can simply summarize your day.
So now you have a reason to practice your writing every single day.
Number six, Find a speaking partner.
Students always tell me they want to improve their speaking skills.
But guess what?
Thousands of other students who also want to practice their speaking skills are watching
this video.
Right now, all you need to do is look in the comments section and you have hundreds of
potential speaking partners.
So right now put in the comments I want a speaking partner and then people will reply
to you.
You can reply to other people and then you can coordinate a specific day and time to
meet.
You can do this every single week.
There are many, many free resources online where you can find a speaking partner like
my language exchange.
I personally use this when I was learning French and I did find speaking partners easily.
So you can find a speaking partner as well #7 teach what you've learned.
This is my personal favorite because the best way to fully understand a concept, to fully
consider yourself an expert in a concept is if you can teach it.
If you can teach someone else how to use the present perfect, well then you my friend,
have mastered the present perfect.
But you don't have to be an expert on a topic in order to teach it.
You can teach your friend, your brother, sister, parents, Co worker, a stranger.
You can teach them one word, that's OK, but teaching them that one word reinforces it
for you.
And if you're thinking right now, I don't have anyone I could teach.
Well, guess what?
You can teach yourself.
Remember, tip #5 was to write in English.
Why not write an explanation of what you learned today in the way of teaching?
For example, you could write today.
I watched a really great YouTube video by JForrest English.
Jennifer shared seven different ways to improve my English.
Her first tip was to learn from TV clips rather than the whole show.
A clip is a smaller section of a full TV show.
Notice how you're summarizing tip #1 and you're including the definition of what a clip is,
which will make it so much more likely that you will remember what a clip is, and you
will also remember all the tips that I shared in this lesson.
So you can absolutely teach yourself every single day by summarizing what you learned.
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