These 5 EASY HABITS will get you FLUENT in English...guaranteed!

hello my wonderful students today I'm going to share 

five daily habits to help  you become fluent in English 

welcome back to JForrest English. Of course I'm Jennifer, now 

let's get started! daily habit No. 1 

listen to native speakers this may seem like an obvious daily habit 

but let me tell you more about it I want you to listen to native speakers in 

a natural context yes right now 

you're listening to a native speaker but this isn't a natural context 

I'm not having a conversation with my friends or with my coworkers 

I'm not out in the real world I'm teaching you something 

so to improve your listening skills to learn vocabulary 

to learn sentence structure to improve your pronunciation 

you can do all of that by  listening to native speakers 

in a real context so this is native speakers on TV movies 

the news podcast and YouTube videos that  

aren't teaching you English now with this daily habit 

know that there's a big difference between active practice and passive practice 

and this daily habit is more of a passive practice you won't be actively studying the conversation 

you're going to listen to  the native speakers passively 

so you can do this when you're making breakfast getting ready 

doing your hair makeup or when you're commuting 

those are perfect times to put in your earphones listen to native speakers passively 

now don't worry even though this is passive 

you are still learning so much you're of course 

going to improve your listening  skills of real English 

fast speaking native speakers 

your brain is processing all of that advanced sentence structure 

and you're also learning new words and you're learning them in context 

so you understand how that  word is used in real speech 

and as a bonus tip make sure you find  

content that you enjoy listening to because if you enjoy the process 

you're more likely to do it daily habit No. 2 

speak for five minutes most students are language absorbers 

language learners but they're not language users 

when you open your mouth and speak you are using your grammar 

sentence structure vocabulary pronunciation 

you are using everything that you're learning it is mandatory that you speak in English 

every single day daily habits 

every single day for at least five minutes 

and let me stop you right there because you do not need a speaking partner 

you can absolutely do this on your own in your room 

without anyone around you don't need someone to hear 

the words out of your mouth in order for you to practice 

all you need to do is open your mouth and speak and you can do that anytime 

any day no matter where you live and no matter what your situation is 

to make this fun and easy for you to do I have a free resource that I know you'll love 

it's called a random question generator simply Google that 

and you will find lots of results and I'll share one of my  

favorites in the description now all you need to do is go on to this website 

you click a button and it generates a question 

you can answer that question out loud and then when you're ready for the next one 

you just click the button again and you get another question 

and you can keep clicking that button getting random questions 

answering these questions to get active 

speaking practice make it your goal to answer three questions a day 

but remember your goal isn't perfection 

your goal is simply to practice to open your mouth and start speaking 

daily habit No. 3 shadowing practice 

do you know what this is when you shadow 

it means you imitate someone and you try to match their speech exactly 

so here's how you can complete this exercise choose any audio or video 

listen to one sentence hit pause and then repeat the sentence aloud 

so let's try this right now I'll say one sentence 

what do you wanna do tonight now remember 

you should pause the video and repeat it out loud which means you're opening your mouth and speaking 

and your goal is to match what I said as closely as possible 

so I'll say it again what do you wanna do tonight 

now I said it very slowly there are controllers on every 

platform where you can reduce the speed so you can really hear those sounds 

because notice I said what do you 

what do you want to wanna 

what do you wanna do tonight so you can start it slow 

half the speed and when you're comfortable with it 

you can play it at full speed what do you wanna do tonight 

but remember you're not just listening 

you're opening your mouth and you're shadowing 

you're trying to match it as closely as possible so now I'll say it at a natural pace 

and I want you to open your mouth and shadow me 

try to say it exactly what do you wanna do tonight 

so do that for five to 10 minutes a day and you will greatly improve your listening skills 

and you'll improve your pronunciation 

and you're also practicing your speaking daily habit No. 4 

read for 10 minutes reading is one of the best ways 

to improve your overall fluency because you are learning so many different skills 

at the same time when you read 

you learn advanced grammar you learn sentence structure 

you learn vocabulary and you learn in context 

so you're not just studying one word and the definition 

you see how that word is used in a context grammar that's needed 

the sentence structure so you learn so much with this one activity 

now remember that your listening practice 

your daily habit No. 1 listening 

was more of a passive activity 

when you read this is more of an active activity 

so you can focus on what you're reading 

if you don't know a word you can look it up 

and learn that word you can notice 

what verb tense is being used in a sentence so you can turn this into more 

active practice but just like with reading 

make sure you learn with content you enjoy and also read 

content that's relevant to your daily life this will make sure that 

you're learning vocabulary that you need for 

your career or your daily life 

so if your goal is to advance your career and you work in marketing 

well then you can Google marketing blogs 

and you can find a blog to read for 

your daily habit and that way 

you're learning all vocabulary 

related to marketing that you can use 

for your daily life daily habit No. 5 

write a daily summary this is another great 

habit to get active practice 

now you're writing a daily summary but you don't 

have to show anyone this is completely private 

and when you're writing really take 

the time to make sure that your writing is both grammatically correct 

and professional so you're formatting 

your punctuation everything is correct 

so this is truly an act of practice 

and you're really thinking about everything 

you're writing so when you write 

focus on your sentence structure focus on your ver 

conjugation and focus on your word 

choices as well and try to improve it 

try to make it more advanced now 

maybe you don't know what to write about don't worry 

let me give you many suggestions 

and you can choose one or you can 

rotate between these and choose a different 

one every day you can summarize your day 

you can write about the best part 

of your day write about one thing 

you Learned today three unusual things you saw 

or heard today you can discuss a problem 

and focus on the solution 

or you can write about your favorite meal of the day 

it doesn't matter what you write about 

the point is that you're writing 

every day now you have five 

daily habits that you can do every 

day to become fluent in English 

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