Part 3 Make more mistakes. I know you are probably shocked but it is the truth, neuroscience backs up this claim also. Here are some pointers for you from neuroscience. 1. more information does not mean more learning. You can get to a point of what we call information over load. (Neuroscientists call it cognitive overload.) Key is to relax, take breaks more often 2 Your emotions affect your ability to learn. Be positive, be calm, be relaxed. I prefer that you are in the mood for fun and games, but if not at least be calm and relaxed, no stress. 3 Mistakes are an essential part of learning. Neuroscience has proven that mistakes and failure is essential to learning faster. Your brain needs to build a new pathway to gain the success you desire, and the fastest way to do that is to fail, and make mistakes. 4 learning style is not important. It has been found that all students learn just as much no matter what style is used to teach. 5 Our brains operate on the use it or lose it principle. Meaning all the English you are trying to learn will be lost over time if you do not use it. All the big words I learned to write my thesis are almost gone from my mind. I can recognize the words when I see them but I can tell you i never use those big words in my daily life. 6 make your learning English a social event. Find friends online or offline, and from now on never ever study English alone. I hope this helps, and I am sorry this answer is so long. Your situation is complex and needed a little more explanation I tried to keep it as short as possible. Good luck with your studies. Go out and have a good time and celebrate your achievements.

Part 2 From your question I am not sure if you are learning to speak, read, write, grammar. So let me just break this down for you. To learn the natural way, which in my opinion is the best, also according to Stephen Krashen PhD, Rod Ellis PhD, and Chomsky Phd, all leaders in second language acquisition, natural method is the best. In my experience with my students: 1 Learn to speak English at least to level 501 before you start any in depth studies into grammar 2 Learn basic grammar from listening and speaking 3 Learn to read and write once you are at level 101A or 201. (most students can already read so that is not that important) 4 almost all students skip this step. You must learn all the sounds of the alphabet, including the phonetic alphabet. With American English there are only 44 sounds so that is the good news. The bad news, some of the sounds and letter combinations do not exist in your language. You must practice the sounds of the letters and letter combinations until they become automatic. 5 Learning English and Acquiring English do not mix, Chomsky, Krashen, Ellis, all agree. In short, don't spend so much time trying to "LEARN English" spend more time experiencing, living, breathing, enjoying English. Have fun and enjoy yourself more. Next. You are most likely reading silently. I tell all my students, if you are below level 501 there is no need to read a lot because it will slow down your progress. And if you want to read. 1 read aloud. And chose a paragraph and read that quite a few times before you move on to the next one. Because the goal is three fold. First, you want to be able to read as if you are casually speaking. Secondly you want to understand what you are reading. If you read the paragraph one time it is not enough time for you to understand what you have read. Thirdly, you want to improve your pronunciation. Continue to part 3

Part 1 I understand your frustration, you are working hard, doing the things that you think need to be done and you do not see the progress you are looking for. Firstly you are too focused on your draw backs, spending too much time thinking about what is not working right for you and not enough time giving yourself credit for what you are doing well and improving in. The remedy for that is to track your progress daily. I have tracking sheets that I developed for my students and these help with keeping the student on track and helps them to see the actual results. Next and this one is a hard piece of advice to take for some students. If what you are doing, is not yielding the results you are looking for, then stop doing that. In your case you are watching videos every day, that is wonderful and a great way to learn. But you might be taking on too much TV at a time. With all my students I tell them to study only 15 minutes (maximum) at a time, then take a break for a few minutes, grab a snack, get some juice, do some exercises, play a game on your phone or tab anything to get your mind off of what you are studying. Then after a couple minutes, start your next 15 minute study session. You will learn as much as 10 times faster once you are used to this method. Think about this for a moment, how does someone learn how to swim? From a reading a book? From watching a movie? The answer is, they have to get in the water and do it. Reading, and watching will not teach you how to swim, you have to take action. Learning to speak English well is the same. You have to speak. Continue to part 2

When you study with English videos, study just one minute of the video clip. Transcribe what you hear word for word, speak what you hear word for word, then compare your transcription with the original, listen again and follow your transcript at the same time. Read out loud the correct transcript several times. If you need suitable material, then I recommend euronews.com and breakingnewsenglish.com

Well, like anything else, you simply must endure. It can feel disheartening when you seem to be making little progress but it could be that you do not notice how well you are doing. The best way is to simply keep at it. If you are having trouble, make sure what you are practicing is not too hard for you. Also, speaking with other people makes things a lot easier because you have active feedback. When you read something, read it out loud, look up all the words you don't know and constantly ask yourself if you understand what is going on. It's tough learning a language, just hang in there!