How to Learn English Fast
5 tips to learn English faster you can start using today
Many English learners ask: How to learn English fast? Here we share some tips to speed up your English learning, save time and make visible progress.
How can I learn English faster?
The quick answer is: find the best way for yourself. Finding the best way to learn a new language depending on your learning style is one thing, but is there more you could do?
There are as many ways to learn a language as there are people in the world. That sounds odd, but it could be true. Everyone learns in a slightly different way, and everyone’s motivation is probably slightly different. Yes, we are all unique, but on a more general level, we are pretty similar. That means that, even though we are unique, we still all need to do some basic things to learn. These things are common knowledge like taking lessons, making connections with native speakers and getting as close to ‘total immersion’ as possible within the structure of your life.
5 tips on how to learn English fast
Work on all 4 language skills
There is no escaping from it, you need to practise the four key skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) as much as you can. You might find that you are better or progress faster in one skill than another, but the fact is that those key skills are interconnected, and no matter which skills you study, you are helping all the other skills at the same time. But you need to work on them all so that your progress is smooth and you don’t plateau for ages and get discouraged.
Practise in order to learn English fast
What are the best ways to practise English? Practical things you can do to speed up and boost your learning are:
Surround yourself with English in every way that you can. This means watching movies in English, reading books in English, listening to music in English and writing in English.
Once you are doing all that, there are some other things that can save time and make your learning more effective.
Find similar words in your language
Most languages share quite a lot of words, (ok if you are learning Tibetan or Xhosa, this might not help) these shared words are called cognates. They are very common between European languages and any languages that have shared an area for a long time. Borrowed words are also a lot of help, for instance, Japanese is full of them.
English has borrowed words from all over the world, so look up the ones that it has in common with your language. Sometimes it is indirect, such as in Polish, which has a lot of French loanwords, which are also used in English. So you can get a head-start by finding out about that.
Learn the most common words
Learning the most common words is a great way to jump-start your English study. Actually in English and probably many other languages, over 65% of written text is made up of just 300 words. That means that if you learn the most used 300 words of English, you will be able to understand a lot of things.
Speaking practice
If you want to become fluent, you will need to speak as much as you can. This is the best way to get a good accent and put everything that you learn into practice. One must remember that speaking is the aim and origin of language. Everything that you are doing is so that you can speak. Ok, you might be an academic and only ever want to understand documents and write essays, but you are in the minority. Reading and writing is something extra, it is not the soul of a language, it is its recording.
Nowadays there are so many ways to set up exchanges or English classes on the internet. Skype or Zoom lessons can be very cost-effective, it’s just a matter of finding the best teacher. This will help you with all the skills. The big ones will be fluency and accent. You will need to tell the person what you want to concentrate on.