There are many Italki groups for learning English. Here are 2 groups for Chinese speakers learning English: To improve your English Group: Click onto: http://www.italki.com/groups/English/254. English Writing Group: http://www.italki.com/groups/3116 Italki English Skype Chat group http://www.italki.com/groups/740/topic/9312.htm Italki Skype Conversation Club http://www.italki.com/groups/1804/topic/39157.htm

There's a difference between reading books (like novels) and reading textbooks. Textbooks are useful if you want to study the language from a linguistic point-of-view. If you want to learn to speak the language then reading materials made for natives is what you want. Also watching movies is great, I prefer watching tv-series for language learning because you end up getting a lot more content. But basically as Jkduzz said they aren't enough. You need as much exposure as you can get. Try to immerse yourself in as much English as possible. Meet and make friends with native speakers, grow your vocabulary and slowly integrate more native-materials into your environment.

Both, but they aren't enough. To learn English, you must supplement as much as you can into your diet. Watch English movies and practice speaking the lines you hear. Read English books aloud and hear how the words sound together. Speak to English natives to form new ideas in English. Do English word-games to increase your vocabulary. Not one activity will help you any more than the other; most people learn best when using as many possible methods as they can. Keep challenging yourself to learn a little English, and you'll find you end up learning a lot more than you expected.