Learning strategy #2 I wrote several days ago about my strategy to learn English. It was very simple. I spend two hours per day on learning: half-hour for reading/listening, half-hour for writing articles like this one, and whole hour for speaking with language partners from italki. Did it work? Well... when I was writing about the perfect strategy, I started with setting goals. My goal was to improve my speaking English. I read a lot of articles about learning new languages, and I created my strategy based on them. But English it’s not a NEW language for me, I practice it for several years already. Moreover, I wrong estimated my English level. I found out, that I can have a normal conversation in English for about hour without making any bigger mistakes. After a two weeks of learning due my strategy I don’t feel that I made any bigger progress. So I have to change it. I skip to read articles about moving from intermediate to advanced level of language proficiency and some rules repeats: - reading newspapers, listen podcasts, watching movies with “higher level” of English - lessons with professional teachers (that would correct all mistakes and find out my weaknesses) - practice accent and intonation (e.g. with youtube video) I have to change my goal too. It’s not enough to say, that I want to speak fluent in English (because I already achieve that). To make progress I need to set more ambitious and measurable goal. I’m thinking about getting certificate C1 or C2. I have some ideas what to do, but I need a time to think about it:: - get some professional lessons on italki - get some preparation for C1 with some e-learning courses - get fluentu account with articles and videos on high language level If you have any ideas or your own experience in getting advanced, please share in comments.