SIX IDEAS AND RITUALS TO HELP YOU LEARN OR IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH

Integrate language learning into your life

• make sure you do it for the right reason
• are you passionate about the UK/USA and English culture?
• remember, without passion for your chosen language, it will be difficult to find the motivation required to work towards your goal

Make it an absolute priority

• make language learning a habit
• start implementing a new set of routines in your everyday life, in order to make this habit stick
• dedicate yourself to the one task and give it your all

Break the task down into smaller, achievable goals

• sit down with a pen and paper and create some achievable objectives
• give yourself a set time frame for wanting to attain fluency and make note of what you wish to have accomplished by specific dates along the way

Set challenges to inspire yourself

• create mini goals in your path towards achieving fluency
• give yourself 2-3 days to add ten new words to your vocabulary list every day or learn 20 irregular verbs a week
• try doing the entire lecture from scratch within 1 week
• after your English session, print out the worksheets, read everything aloud and complete all written exercises in full sentences

Keep yourself accountable: make your mission public

• consider starting a blog, announce your goal on FB or email friends and family members to tell them about your progress
• outline your mission and set an end date for achieving your goal
• put aside a time every week – say every Friday night, to update everyone about your progress

Keep your commitments minimal

• focus your attention solely on the one task
• don’t begin learning a language amidst training for a marathon, learning how to meditate and finally starting work on that novel you’ve always dreamed of writing