You could watch English TV sitcoms such as Friends. For each episode you could write down some words and/or expressions you don't know and look them up and try to actively use them in your writing and speaking. Here's a nice website you could look at as well: http://www.eslnotes.com/ It has guides on several movies that gives you a lot of information including vocabulary and cultural references. What you could also do is look up transcripts from episodes of TV shows you've watched. This could come in handy when you don't know the spelling of some of the words you're not familiar with. I also don't know if you've heard about the English phonetic alphabet? Like pinyin, this is a transcription system of written symbols that people use for the pronunciation of words. If you can learn this alphabet by heart (watch out: there are a number of different ones out there) then you could start doing exercises to improve your pronunciation. What you could also do is take it one symbol at a time and go from there. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/ http://audio-class.ru/english-phonetics.html This is also a nice website for you to practice your pronunciation out loud: http://www.trainyouraccent.com/ Remember: give yourself time! Keep practicing and keep asking questions. Be inquisitive, you'll get there!