50 ways to improve your English

1.       Listen to MP3s.

2.      Listen to English music.

3.       Read the lyrics to a song.

4.      Sing karaoke in English.

5.       Write a film, music, hotel or book review.

6.      Only search in English.

7.       Read a book you've already read or seen the movie of in your own language.

8.      Read a translation into English.

9.      Read a book with lots of dialogue.

10.   Read English language comics.

11.   Read English language entertainment guides.

12.   Read English language magazines.

13.   Teach your children or friends some English.

14.   Have English radio on in the background while you are doing your housework.

15.   Play English language learning games.

16.   Say or think what you are doing in English as you do your daily tasks.

17.    Watch English language films with English subtitles.

18.   Watch films in your language with English subtitles.

19.   Watch English films with subtitles in your language.

20.  Watch the same film or TV episode over and over again.

21.   Read graded readers (= easy readers). 

22.  Read the whole thing with no help.

23.   Read and learn everything.

24.  Watching English children's films or TV programmes.

25.   Read English children's books.

26.  Keep a list of language to learn, e.g. a vocab list.

27.   Go through your vocab list several times every day.

28.  Convert your vocab list to English only.

29.  Label things in your house or office with post-its.

30.   Label a drawing.

31.   Keep a diary in English.

32.   Online chat.

33.   Listen to the radio news in English.

34.   Read an English language newspaper.

35.   Write fiction in English, e.g. short stories.

36.   English language exercise videos.

37.    Learn a famous speech or poem in English by heart.

38.   Use a dictionary while you are watching a movie.

39.   Learn and use the phonemic script.

40.  Learn some spelling rules.

41.   Record your own voice.

42.  Use computer pronunciation analysis.

43.   Learn as many words as you can of one category, e.g. animal words.

44.  Draw pictures of the words you want to learn.

45.   Model your accent on one particular actor. e.g. try to speak like Robert De Niro.

46.  Use an English-English dictionary.

47.   Occasionally talk to or e-mail your friends in English.

48.  Buy a speaking electronic dictionary.

49.  Switch operating system to English.

50.   Set goals.