My way of learning As I found this website, I promised to myself to make notes from time to time for better progressing in not speaking skills only. Besides, I watch serials in english, I think that's a wonderful way to reach almost native level. I have a note book, when I hear or see some interesting common prhrases which are original and have no straight analogs in Russian, I write it down there. For me it's not so hard to percept english speech, I understand 70 % of it, the rest 30 % concerns some special terms and words that I've never seen somewhere in a school or university program. That's an interesting journey in a foreign language, I really enjoy it.