17 Ways to Practice English Daily for Free | Go Natural English

Hello, welcome back to go natural English the difference between a fluent English speaker and someone who is

struggling to speak English is

Clear the key is consistency

That means using English a little bit each day in this English tip lesson. I'm going to share

17 ways that you can use English

Every day for free and they don't take a long time now you don't need to do all

17 of these every single day you can pick and choose

Start with one that you find interesting and then when you want more ideas to do something different you can revisit

This video make sure you watch all the way to the end because I'm going to tell you how you can learn

English with me

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Now let's begin with number one. It is so important to

Not wait until your English class or your English tutoring session to use English

We need to find ways to

Immerse you in English each day

That means consuming contents in English one simple thing that you can do right now while you're watching

YouTube videos is to turn the captions or subtitles on in English

just click on the settings and turn the CC on and that way you can read and

Watch this lesson at the same time

The more inputs the better having subtitles on doesn't hurt your English

You're simply able to exercise your reading skills and your listening skills at the same time

you might try watching for the first time with the subtitles on and then the second time put the subtitles off and

See how much you understand or if you want to challenge you can reverse that and watch the first time with no subtitles

See how much you understand and then watch the video again a second time with the captions on

Now on that note of consuming English a little bit each day. I highly recommend that you listen to a daily

Podcast now if you like to stay up to date on world events

The perfect podcast for you is the daily from The New York Times

It's about 20 minutes long, which is perfect. It's not too long

Not too overwhelming and 20 minutes for me fits

Perfectly in my routine going to the gym or commuting to work

Or if you walk a dog or need to do some chores at home 20 minutes is a great length of time

So I recommend starting with the daily

It might be a little bit advanced because it's meant for native English speakers. So if it is too difficult

don't give up just

Revisit it in

a few weeks and see if it's easier to understand a big mistake that a lot of English learners make is that you

Consume a lot of English materials, which is good

But you stop there just because you can understand what you're listening to or what you're reading

Doesn't make you fluent in English fluency means that you're able to communicate

Your ideas in English through writing or speaking

So make sure that when you are consuming materials, you're also writing and speaking to

Practice speaking. You could Shadow the podcast you're listening to or this video right now

For writing you could write some notes on what you listen to what did you learn?

What was interesting or were there any new words that you'd like to look up afterwards? So make sure that you're not only

Reading or listening to English that you're also speaking and writing another big mistake

A lot of English learners have that's keeping them from fluency is lack of vocabulary

We need to build your vocabulary a little bit each day

So think about how you could add new to your vocabulary one way that I love doing

This is looking at the word of the day on the merriam-webster

dictionary

Website so each day. It's simple they give you a new word

That's usually a little advanced and you can write it down and try using it in your journal in your own

Sentence another mistake that English learners often make is trying to translate

Everything in your head when you're speaking

However to improve your writing skills

you should translate and

Actually, it can be a really good exercise for you to try

translating from English to your native language and really observe make note of how the

languages express the same ideas

Sometimes very differently

If you would like a fun exercise to translate from English to your native language

Try translating this video. There's a link in the description

here on YouTube to

Translate this video and once you do that

Your name will appear in the description as well as a thank you. A lot of you might use social media

Maybe you use Facebook or Instagram or Twitter?

On social media don't just be an observer

fine accounts to follow or

friends who speak English and take time to

comments in

English on their posts or join a conversation in a group

this is a really important way for you to develop your English skills because

Writing for me was a great way for me to work on my Spanish skills. I remember when I was learning Spanish

I would follow

accounts on

Facebook that

spoke Spanish and I would comment on their posts in Spanish and it was a great feeling to see that people could

Understand what I was trying to say. It's simple it's easy

It's fast and its really good for shy learners. If you don't feel quite ready to speak with native speakers

Try using English on social media a little each day

Okay one mistake is to constantly focus on learning new things. It's great to learn new vocabulary

expressions phrases grammar, but

It is actually even more important to review what you've already learned it can take

20 times seeing the same word for you to understand and remember

The meaning the pronunciation and how to use it in your own sentences

Actively. So remember to review and be patient with yourself because really almost no one even native

speakers

Remember a word after the first time they see it. We need to repeat and review

many many times

The next tip might seem a little

woowoo, or

difference but I think it's really important to

Envision yourself as a fluent confident English speaker. It's like meditation or

visualization or

affirmations

Take a minute each day. Close your eyes and imagine

Yourself in a situation where you're speaking English fluently

Maybe you're giving a presentation in English

Or maybe you're at a dinner with friends or coworkers and you're having a great conversation

in English

I want you to see yourself in that situation in your mind

Because this helps to prepare you to make you feel familiar and therefore more confident when these

Situations occur in real life. So use the power of your mind

to improve your English fluency in order to create a new reality where you are a

Fluent confident English speaker, we have to envision it first before it becomes reality

Next don't wait for someone to start a conversation with you in English

No native English speaker is going to come knocking on your door to start a conversation with you

You need to be the instigator start a conversation with someone in English today

it could be someone in person if you're so lucky to live in a place with other native English speakers, or

It could be on social media online and it doesn't have to be with native English speakers. It could be with any

English speaker at all

Next don't depend on other people to tell you when you're making

mistakes

Each day. You can try speaking English

It could be free speaking

If you're more advanced where you just speak whatever is on your minds

or it could be shadowing another material that you're listening to simply copying what you hear and

Record yourself. This is so helpful

If you record yourself

You can listen, you can playback your speaking and notice where you might be making mistakes

Or maybe where your pronunciation is a little off and that is the first step to improving your English skills

Here's another tip for actually using English in real life

think of a websites a product a service that you use

where it's an english-speaking company and

you can actually

contact their support

Maybe you have a question about the product or the service a lot of websites nowadays have chats for customer service

So you could actually practice your English

while you're asking questions about a product or service you're interested in and some businesses still have

Old-fashioned phone lines so you could go ahead and practice your English for telephone calls

By calling a company that's of interest to you

Next you've probably heard this many times before but listen to music every day in English and don't just listen

Sing enjoy yourself put emotion into this song because emotion

feelings

movement dancing will help you to improve your English because these are all ways that help our body and our

Mine's to remember words and in many songs. You can pick up new vocabulary

so choose a song that you enjoy learn the lyrics sing it dance it and

Enjoy using English if you have no idea where to start

I will share that one of my current favorite artists is SIA. So I recommend that you start there

Next I have a personal tip to share. Hope you don't mind

but if you live in a city and where there's tourism you could look at taking a tour where

People would be speaking English with english-speaking tourists

I recently did this with an Airbnb experience where I did a historical walking tour in

English as a participant and this was a really fun way to use English in real life

Of course, I don't need to practice my English because I'm a native speaker

But I could imagine that doing something like this in English could really help you and I've done other Airbnb

Experiences where the leader and the group we're speaking Portuguese and that really helped me to develop my language skills as well

Next don't try to do everything

Don't try to become fluent in English

right away just

Break down your goals into smaller steps and choose one small thing each day

in fact

Give yourself a deadline make an appointment with yourself each day to practice English

so this is more of a strategic tip or a

motivational tip to help you with your to help you with your discipline when I

Really want to improve my skills in an area or I really want to get something done

I actually make an appointment with myself using Google Calendar

to do that thing to use

Portuguese to practice Portuguese to read a little bit

So this is more of a strategic tip

But you can use this to make sure that you don't forget or you don't or you don't

Oh, I don't have time today maybe tomorrow

Create the time don't just depend on outside sources for English. I talked a lot about listening to podcasts

music writing in your journal

Looking up a word of a day and many other things but you can actually use English in your own mind throughout the day

Try creating sentences. Oh, right

now I am eating lunch and then I'm going to go to the gym or

Whatever is happening in your day. You could describe people that you're seeing

Oh, that woman has a really beautiful dress

And so you're actually narrating your day in English

The next tip that's related is when you go to bed at night before you sleep try

Recapping or summarizing your day in English. So oh, I woke up at 6 a.m

Then I had breakfast and so on and this will really help your fluency

Do this each night before bed and you might be surprised that pretty soon you'll start dreaming in English

Our second-to-last tip is that you at home can label different objects around your house

so this will help you to improve your vocabulary when you actually put a sticky notes on an item at home and

Label it with the correct vocabulary. That way you're seeing English everywhere you go

finally last but not least perhaps my favorite way to use English each day is to think about how you could use English to

help

Someone or to make someone's day a little bit better. Could you give someone a compliment?

Could you tell them that they look nice today or?

That they have a nice dress on or their hair looks nice

Maybe like their earrings just saying or could you offer to help someone maybe?

You see someone who's struggling who needs help to do something and you can offer to help in

English I still remember years ago when I was living in Japan and I was inside a subway station

Completely lost I had no idea

where I

Had no idea how to get where I was going and a very nice Japanese woman

stopped and offered to help me with directions and it was so simple, but so nice I really

felt like

People were there to help me and so perhaps you could help another English speaker today or make them feel good with the compliments

Whoo?

All right, that was 17 tips for using English on a daily basis to improve your fluency

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