20 Powerful ideas to improve your English

These ideas are mainly for people for whom native language
is not English and want or need to improve it using current

01. What is what you like most.

For example: Learn Music,

electronic, hiking, fishing.
Write down these passions and put them in order, keep
them in a place where you can see them everyday for
example in front of your desk, on your refrigerator,
etc.

02. Identify what you need most.

What is what you need most? At this moment for example:

Understand English, Speak it correctly, make money,
write an article etc.

03. Use your passions or your needs to improve your English

When you study or practice the following ideas try to

use your passions or your needs to practice, in this
way you will optimize your time and let your
subconscious mind work.

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04. Create imaginary friends and speak with them.

This will help you to listen to yourself and to think

ahead how to say the things.

05. Listen every day.

This is important because you get familiar with the

English language and you will start to understand more
words everyday.
Here is my suggestion, watch tv on your computer, check
the following link:
www.englishimprover.com/tv

06. Write every day.

A paragraph a phrase or any sentence that you may need

from your imaginary friend or you may try to write down
something you heard, or you would like to say, it does
not have to be big, it can be short.

07. Look up for a new word every day.

When you read any phrase or information, and look for

words that you do not know, try to understand their
meaning without using a dictionary, but if after some
time you do not know what that means use a dictionary
and write down the meaning of the word, and put it in
a place where you can see it everyday until you
memorize it.
You can use www.dictionary.com

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08. Force yourself to understand a phrase.

I mean if you find something that is not very clear,

read the phrase use quotes (“”) and check in a
search engine like Google, Yahoo or others to see if
you understand their meaning.

09. Make Native English speakers friends.

Currently this is very easy to do just create an

account in Myspace, Facebook, Badoo or other social
media website where you can chat or talk directly with
other friends and tell them that you looking to improve
your English.

10. Take a grammar lesson everyday English Grammar.

For each rule in English normally exist a lot of

exceptions, so look for them and check the lesson and
the exceptions.
In the next days check your email for the rest of the
ideas

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11. Learn jokes in English.

“This little computer,” said the sales clerk,

“will do half of your job for you.”

Studying the machine, the senior VP said,

"Fine, I'll take two."

Here I have some suggestions:

http://www.the-jokes.com
http://www.jokes-best.com
http://www.coolfunnyjokes.com

This is a great way to make connection with other

people.

12. Learn Slang.

Sometimes when you are reading something difficult to

understand try google in this way, go to google and
enclose your phrase with quotes and type meaning of ""

For example Hang over, I don't know what it means just

type in google:
meaning of "hang over"

In this way you will find several responses to your

questions, you can

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13. Part of current English culture is to use a lot of
abbreviations.

Mainly by young people, but a lot of persons use

abbreviations here I will give, but they are

BF/GF Boyfriend / Girlfriend

BRB Be Right Back
CD9 Code 9 - means parents are around
GTG Got to Go
IDK I don't know
(L)MIRL (Lets) meet in real life
LOL Laugh Out Loud
MorF Male or Female
MOS Mom Over Shoulder
Noob Newbie - often an insult to somebody who
doesn't know much about
something.
NMU Not much, you?
P911 Parent Emergency
N And
ESL English as Second Language
POS Parent Over Shoulder
ASAP As soon as possible
S2R Send To Receive (pictures)
TDTM Talk Dirty To Me
Warez Pirated Software
W/E Whatever

My suggestion for this is:

http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/help-services/QuickGuides/oed-abbr.html

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14. Read History.

If you are going to be talking for people from certain

country is good idea to read some History of them,
because history is their culture and the language are
completely related

Here are some suggestions:

http://www.wikipedia.org
http://www.gutenberg.org

both of them are excellent

15. Focus on a specific area.

Let me tell you my own experience when I was starting

to learn English Some times I was able to understand
find and some other times not
Why?
People from different parts of the world speak
different, even if they only speak English

For that reason I suggest you this:

Focus to understand English from a specific area,

USA-California, USA-Texas, Australia-Queensland,
Australia-Victoria, UK-Scotland, UK-Cornwall, etc.

Once you feel comfortable, speak with people form other

places

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16. Study before sleeping.

This worked out very well for me

Just before sleeping read or listen something in
English and keep thinking about it

Remember if you find something of your passions, needs

or interests you will be improving twice

17. Ask for help at myspace, facebook, hi5, etc.

Yes if you are in one social network, like myspace,
facebook, twitter, etc.
Start to make friends from an English speaking country
and ask them for some help to correct your English
phrases, sometimes they are not going to understand
you, just keep trying

Other times the helper won't help, in that case look

for other friend, you just have to keep trying until
find a good helper and don't abuse with too many
questions
Try native English speakers for this, otherwise it
won't be so helpful and look for people above 40 years
old, they will help better

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18. Learn sayings.
Other important thing to learn are sayings or proverbs
or refrains, I collected some of them for you

Do as you would be done by

None so deaf as those who don't ear
No gain without pain
Never look a gift horse in the mouth
Never put off till tomorrow what you can today
Like father, like son - Stick of the old block
Live and let live
After storm comes a calm
Every cloud has a silver lining
Even Homer sometimes nods

19. Force yourself to use at least one of these ideas

everyday.

20. Use software to correct your English.

Currently there are many even if you are not sure how
to write a word correctly you can just type that word
in Google and it will show you the right way to write
it, if it was misspelled, you can also type almost any
word and find the correction, however this only will
correct your orthography, but not the grammar,

This is what I like most:

http://www.the-white-smoke.info

If you apply all these ideas, I promise your English will

improve.

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