How to build, structure the study and repetition of eng. language?

Question

IT education

Good evening everyone! I decided to improve my level in English. Goal: Technical English, be able to read literature, grammar.
One of the problems is that I haven’t studied English since school, and it’s been 3 years already, and the level at school is average. I feel that there is knowledge in my head, but I don’t know how to restore it, tighten it up.
Tell me where to start, ready straight from the bottom. I would be grateful for interesting literature!

Answer 1

If there is no way to invest money ...
Cyril, I similarly started ~ a year ago.
1) View in detail (having studied all their possibilities, and not superficially) online resources for learning English (lingualeo, powerenglish, etc.). Not all of them are paid. Many have a free option with restrictions (not all lessons and workouts are available) - suitable for the initial version. A paid annual subscription is still comparable to 1-2 visits to a tutor - you can take a chance. Unlike books, the interactivity of the courses is higher (30% of the theory, then 70% of the time for exercises with verification). Also, in addition to studying grammar and increasing vocabulary, they also have thematic cycles - English from scratch, English for an IT specialist, English for travel, etc.
2) Read the electronic documentation. We met an unfamiliar word - immediately into the personal dictionary of the online course you selected in the paragraph above. Further, as part of the course, memorize it through various training sessions. Many resources have plugins with a convenient interface for this purpose.
3) I watched films according to the following scenario. I started with cartoons, which, for obvious reasons, have better pronunciation, vocabulary is more limited, then action films, then "talking rooms":
First with subtitles in English (unfamiliar words - in the dictionary). Then after 10 days (before that time I watched other films) - the same film without subtitles. I'm trying now without subtitles.
4) Listened to adapted (reduced vocabulary, from 300 to 2000 words depending on complexity) audio books, many of them have a PDF version of the book.
5) Now I have started reading non-adapted fiction. At first it is hard, but after a dozen pages it gets easier and easier (unfamiliar words are less and less common - all the same, the authors "get used" to their vocabulary :)).
6) non-adapted artistic audiobooks are not given yet .... I
tried to spend an average of 3-4 hours a week on English.

Answer 2

1) LinguaLeo. This is an online platform for learning and practicing a foreign language, on which, according to the service, as of September 2014, 9,500,000 users are registered on it.
With the help of this site, you can study grammar, practice words, read texts, listen to audio, watch videos (all, of course, in English). There are a huge number of grammar courses for all levels of language proficiency (many of them are paid, but their price is equal to 1-3 lessons with a tutor). Written professionally with examples and tasks to test knowledge. When registering for normal training, you will need to buy an annual "gold status" for 700-1000 rubles (the price varies from day to day), which will allow you to open access to all functionality (except for some paid courses).
LinguaLeo is constantly starting cooperation with cool international online educational platforms. Recent ones: Coursera, British Council, TED. These platforms provide mainly video, in this regard, a special innovative interactive translation has been built into the video player, which allows you to quickly add words from the video to your dictionary, and then study and train them.
Upon registration, an English language proficiency test will be taken and individual study recommendations will be provided. There are a huge number of thematic sets of words to study. Moreover, you can create such sets yourself. I have been practicing this for a long time, for example, for different books I have different sets of words.
The service has mobile applications for all popular platforms.
Unique service (I have been working here since 2012). No need to spare 1000 rubles! An Education is Priceless.
There is also a convenient browser extension for lingualeo (I have chrome), which, when you click on an English word, immediately gives a translation, voices the pronunciation and allows you to add it to your dictionary for further study.
2) Duolingo. Excellent language learning service. On the desktop version of the site, you can practice grammar (no theory, just practice), as well as translate texts and upload your own. That is, if you see some interesting article on some site, then you can upload it to this site and translate it conveniently - a translation will be offered for each sentence and each word.
There are apps for iOS and Android. In mobile versions only grammar.
3)Memrise. London startup. Here you can practice words. An interval storage algorithm has been implemented . Who will study, I recommend the Upper-intermediate English course from Cambridge (here you already need to know the basic words) and a course that will help you learn these basic words.
4) Anki. An incredibly powerful and free program (windows, mac, android, paid for iOS) that uses the spaced repetition technique discussed in the previous paragraph. Everything can be customized :)
Very cool service. With the help of the interval algorithm, words are remembered very well even if at first you do not know them at all.
See an unfamiliar word, add it, write a translation, add pronunciation, and an example of use.
4) Cambridge - English Grammar in Use. This is an application based on the famous book. Here is a complete grammar course (there is a British pronunciation of examples - very good). There is also an app for iOS. It costs ~ 600 rubles. Completely in English. And for its implementation, I recommend going through the basic words (you can use paragraph 3).
5) BBC Learning Language. An excellent site created specifically for learning English. You can choose the level of knowledge. There you will find courses, videos, podcasts.
Yes, that's right, podcasts.
6) Podcasts. There are at least 3 decent English learning podcasts out there.
ESL Podcast is the best podcast ever (IMHO). Two types of releases: dialogue and conversations on specific topics.
6 Minute English is part of the BBC Learning Language project. Also a very cool podcast.
British Council - listen to podcasts, watch videos, everything.
Grammar Girl, The English We Speak, ...
7) YouTube videos and channels. I like the group of channels from the engvid site the most. They talk interestingly about different things: grammar, pronunciation, idioms, phrasal verbs, and much more. On the site, you can choose videos according to the level of language proficiency. If you sign up for lingualeo, they have a special section in cooperation with engvid with that interactive player that I wrote about earlier. I really like these videos.
Video - ororo.tv. Here you can watch different series and cartoons, but more than an hour a day is paid. I haven't used this service very often lately.
8) Recently I learned about such a learning opportunity. The name of the creator of this system is AJ Hoge. And the system itself is called Effortless English System.
First, he has a podcast. You can listen here. And, if you have an Android or iOS device, then you can download some kind of podcast player there, find this podcast and many others there, and listen there. It's called Effortless English Podcast.
Secondly, he has courses that are described on the site (rating from 180 reviews 4.73/5 - cool).
Here you can watch a video of who this course is aimed at. I don’t know what level you have in terms of knowledge of words and grammar (it can be raised with the help of the previous points, memrise is good for words, for everything else lingualeo), but it should suit you anyway (like me), because spoken English is very difficult to develop without speaking with native speakers, but here it should be very cool.
The podcast is free, and you can find the courses themselves on popular trackers. More precisely here. And there is also a link to Power English. So I want to start it, but so far I have only listened to podcasts.
General recommendations:
I recommend doing English every day. Allocate at least 20 minutes (an hour is better).
In addition to special services, you can read books in English (available on the LinguaLeo website). To begin with, you can read children's fairy tales (simple grammar and words), then move on to popular books, the plot of which you know and read more than once - to those that you like the most. I like the Harry Potter series of books and I re-read it in English. I also downloaded audiobooks for this series and it's very cool to listen to and read at the same time - it turns out that two skills are being trained at once. As I said, there is this series on lingualeo and I read there - it’s convenient, you see an unfamiliar word, poked at it and it was added to the dictionary, and then you can go through it in various trainings (word - translation, translation - word, collect the word from letters, listening, and others). By the way, interval training was also added to lingualeo, but it’s a little worse,
Moreover, I recommend that you read the news in English (better of course British) - The Guardian, The Telegraph; but American ones can be, for example, Business Insider.
And, of course, read the thematic literature. There will be vocabulary necessary in the profession.

Answer 3

1. You go to a tutor
2. You read documentation and technical books in English (with a dictionary)
2. You read any books you are interested in in English (with a dictionary)
3. You watch films in English (with and without English subtitles)

Answer 4

Imagine what opportunities await you when you become fluent in English. Determining why you really need it can be the most difficult thing, but without this it is difficult to truly motivate yourself.

Answer 5

I'll add a couple of tips:
1) https://www.verbling.com/community - an opportunity to practice the language in audio chats with foreigners. There are few of those who have English as their native language, mostly the same language learners from all over the world (many from Latin America and the Middle East), but a very worthwhile free service for training.
2) Courses on coursera.org , udacity.com , edx.org - combine two things - and learn the topics you are interested in and learn English. Personally, after going through a series of courses, I began to perceive the language by ear much easier.

Answer 6

if you are seriously engaged in something technical, then English itself will catch up with you.
I mean programming, electronics, management, design and so on ...
in each of the areas you need to know specific terms, and they are mostly in English