English in a year?

Question

Career in IT

Good afternoon / evening / morning / night or something else, because of the free time I want to improve my English, at the moment I know about 1200 + - 300 words, I know how to build simple sentences, read and speak, but it’s hard to perceive by ear, I have from 15 to 25 hours a week, Mon-Fri I study layout after classes, the remaining 2 hours for English, + a couple of hours in the morning, on Saturday and Sunday the days are completely free, what needs to be changed in my plan?
1) Finally finish all Duolingo tutorials
2) ...
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What literature can be read on the road? 4-6 hours every 2 weeks

Answer 1

Good evening.
It may turn out to be useful...
I am not a professional in the field of organizing foreign language teaching, but in my practice I rely on common sense and personal comfort (or, equivalently, the absence of internal discomfort when studying). Therefore, exclusively from my own experience, I will share a simple piece of advice, but at first a little bit of a subjective theory.
I noticed such a thing behind me - when I started reading, it took me some short time to "gain momentum". Those. at the beginning of reading, I kind of “slowed down”, “stumbling” on certain words / phrases / turns ... It took about 3-4 minutes, I guess. After that, I picked up a natural rhythm for myself and read already quite freely.
This is what I mean ... When I tried to read, for example, by the method of Ilya Frank (the essence of the method is that the text is divided into blocks: first, a block of text accompanied by a translation, after that, a block of text is repeated without translation), or read along the way look in the dictionary to translate a new unfamiliar word - these options caused me some discomfort in the sense that they "teared" this very rhythm / flow of reading and did not allow me to immerse myself in it, which is necessary for a more natural perception of what was read and a smooth development conversational pace.
Therefore, I thought about such an option that would allow me not to be distracted from reading and at the same time understand what I read as much as possible ...
Now the simple advice itself:Is there a book whose plot you know almost perfectly? Find the English version and read.
PS I, for example, read "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas :)

Answer 2

I have this link:

1. Lingvist.io (vocabulary)
   
2. Lingualeo (vocabulary and theory courses)
   
3. Songs on YouTube with text (pumps the perception of English by ear)
   
4. Book (Harry Potter in my case), read aloud
   
5. netflix movies, TED TALKS, articles
   

Answer 3

I already asked a similar question, now I will share my experience)
1. Translate all your surroundings into English: OS, phone, VK, Google services, etc.
2. I really like Lingvist.io, I run 150-200 words every day. The site is good because there you can listen and repeat after the robot and somehow train your pronunciation. pieces 500 words for 2 months added to the vocabulary here, honestly. highley recommend 3.
Switch to English-language music, translate the tracks you like, listen preferably with headphones and follow the words, and then open the text and compare
your eyes will catch on, it's not bad already)
5. Switch to English-language content on YouTube.
6. Add a translator to bookmarks and drive in ALL incomprehensible words there.
7. I sometimes arrange an interview for myself, ask and answer questions in English.
8. Try to write in English - statuses, on the wall, on Twitter - where you live, you will see that you don’t know anything at all, and you will have to climb into the forums to find out the rules, how this or that construction is written.
maybe something from the list will come in handy, I’ll add on my own that books don’t come to me. I can read even more or less serious work, but it doesn’t give pleasure, I don’t want to force it.
learning grammar yourself is also a disastrous thing, I don’t have money for courses / rehearsal, but if you have it, pull it up, I think it will help a lot if you are overwhelmed with systematized knowledge and tasks.

Answer 4

listen to podcasts. There are podcasts by levels from easy to hard.
more difficult - TED videos
can still take a couple of lessons from a tutor (there are options for 500 rubles per hour. You are looking for teachers on Skype from the regions on Avito) will answer your questions
www.efl.ru here your question has already been discussed 100500 times, full of advice, but you can ask it there too.

Answer 5

Here I described in detail how to teach
upworkest.ru/neobhodimyj-uroven-anglijskogo-i-kak-...

Answer 6

Go to native speakers for a year))

Answer 7

Studied English at school for 9 years
At university for 2 years
No result! Do you know why? Because Language is not only memorization of words. Memorizing words is a waste of time. Everywhere right after the alphabet they push the grammar! You will remember how you yourself learned to speak Russian - at first you listened and listened to everything and then imitated. And they didn’t start right away with the grammar of the present simple, fiuche pastes, and so on)). I advise first a long LISTENING, then IMITATION and EXACT SPEAKING, and then reading interesting (!!!) books in English with a translator and understanding later in context!
Personally, I myself am at the reading stage, I am already making successful presentations on IS and IS in English) and I speak almost like a native speaker, with a minimum accent.
Good luck
PS: Zamyatkin method. Try it. only 85 bucks, I think your language courses will take you 85 bucks a month)

Answer 8

As a self-taught person, I also faced the problem of listening
. Series and films helped, at first I watched with subs, then without.
When there are no problems with TV, try listening to music in English, something simple like the Beatles, then you can do something more complicated. If it's difficult, then turn on the text and sing :)
Books, newspapers, etc. also help.

Answer 9

I changed all the interfaces a long time ago. More precisely, not Russified.
How much time did I save on this ...
I also bought subscriptions to puzzle English. I signed up for a bunch of interactive courses; I'll see what's more interesting. The rules scare me the most. I still mess around with a lot of things. Words, as for me, can be learned on the bus through some kind of application like cards.
I would advise changing the entire environment to English. You can also turn on the BBC on TV for the background, instead of Kiselevshchina

Answer 10

To google translator.
There is an interesting Instant Translate plugin, it will give the translation of any word in the text, you just need to click on it 2 times with the mouse. Well, or select a piece of text and translate through the context menu.
Convenient, no need to switch to another tab, copy text, and so on.

Answer 11

Now I will outline the coolest (verified by personal experience) way to learn English.
Vocabulary:
Install google translater and put it on the main screen of your smartphone for easy access.
As you live, you constantly meet unfamiliar words in English, just with each new
word, hammer it into the translator, the history of the translated words will remain there.
When the word limit in Google runs out, transfer all the words to a notepad on your computer and save your database in this way.
Then sit down and try to remember all the words, you can get into this notebook a couple of times a week.
As you translate words, you will also improve writing.
Also translate all your gadgets and environment into English, read and watch content in English.
As for grammar, there is a channel on YouTube "English as if by notes". There you will learn all tenses for one or two + the structure of sentence construction.
On the Internet, you yourself google about commas, prepositions (at, in, on ...) and articles.
Then reasonable questions will arise, such as: how does during differ from while and from within? They say the translation is almost the same. And there will be enough such situations, you can google it all.
To start speaking confidently, you just need to speak. And the confidence of your speech directly depends on your vocabulary, so prioritize. The only site where you can almost immediately connect and talk is speaking24.com. Do not be shy and talk about any topic, there are people just like you.

Answer 12

But what about PalTalk?

Answer 13

1. Lingualeo is a great site for learning English.
2. Since it is difficult for you to perceive by ear, start watching children's cartoons in English, gradually begin to get used to listening, later switch to simple series / sitcoms.

Answer 14

By myself I know that the main thing is to be interesting , even if it is not entirely clear.
To improve listening comprehension it is good to constantly listen to something - movies / series / radio. I prefer series (especially where there are already 7-8 seasons, so for a long time :)).
If you watch it, then at first I turned on subtitles, but after a couple of months I noticed that they were bothering me and I went on without them.
But just as often, I just turn on something to just go in the background and do other things at the same time.
The same with reading, the main thing is to find something that is interesting and then the whole process is easier and more fun. And not only books, but also articles, blogs, etc. The latter are also interesting in that they contain everyday language in a modern form.
Ps At first, try not to cling to specific words or phrases, but simply understand the essence. So you don’t have to constantly interrupt for translations and the vocabulary somehow imperceptibly replenishes itself)).