How to improve English to understand a real talk of native speakers? I'd like to begin with my story about my discoveries being related to learning English. I used to think and believe that I knew English not bad and I could easily understand native speakers' talk. What my negative impression watching my favourite film or video in original was I could hardly understand what they were talking about. I'm trying to focus on idioms and phrasal verbs at the moment, however I come to conclusion that it's a waste of time. "Why?"- you can ask me. The thing is I want everything as quickly as it can be possible. Unfortunately, my motivation of learning English from time to time fail. It would be awesome to remember and practising all materials in reality you've learnt before. So, the problem is laziness. Most people like to confirm that they don't mind to know some foreign language though, but nobody wants to make efforts for doing this. So neither do I sadly.