12 effective tips to learn English fast and easy

Start speaking as soon as possible -  If you are serious about learning to speak English quickly, the evidence is clear: having regular conversations with a fluent speaker is pretty much the only way.

Start reading -  Browsing celebrity gossip on easy-reading websites like Buzzfeed, Mashable, or Unworthy. Reading a book you love in your native language in the English translation.

Make yourself accountable -  If you have great willpower, making yourself accountable could be as simple as setting an alarm on your phone to remind you to do some learning at a certain time every day.

Set more useful targets than “I will become fluent” -  In the language learning community, there is so much emphasis on “becoming fluent,” Fixating fluency suggests that there is an endpoint to learning English, a point that is always out of reach.

Keep your personal goals in mind -  There is no easy way around it: learning English fast will take serious energy. In order to stick with it, you have to have a motivation that sets your heart on fire.

Try flashcards to boost your vocabulary -  A word of warning: flashcards can be a false friend when learning English, causing you to spend too much time learning words without their context.

Learn whole sentences -  Flashcards are useful, but studies show that learning whole sentences might be even more useful. Language nerds call this technique ‘sentence mining’.

Sing along -  Listening to music with English lyrics can help you gain a better understanding of pronunciation, vocabulary and sentence structure, without feeling like studying at all.

Watch TV -  Watching TV and movies can also help you discover new accents, and try to understand them.

Listen to native English speakers (try to!) speak your language - One easy tip is to pay attention to the common mistakes English native speakers make in your home language, especially in sentence structure and grammar.

Change your phone and social media settings to English - Changing your phone settings will teach you some words which are very relevant to modern life that you won’t necessarily see on vocabulary learning websites, such as “newsfeed” and “sponsored content.”

Find a community of language learners -  When you start digging into more advanced aspects of learning English, it can be very motivating to share your insights, breakthroughs, and frustrations with other people.

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