How I learned English (and you can learn new langages)
It all started at a techno party.
During the party someone asked me if I speak English and I answered yes.
It was 5am and we were in a club, I thought maybe he will say “you are pretty” or “do you have a light? “ and I understand and can answer that.
Well, I was wrong, we will talk for 30 minutes that day and become friends.
After that, as we talk together, I had the need to think in English for being ready to talk with them. Being fluent in English was a wish I had for a long time. But I’d never take the time to learn and improve it.
Now, thanks to having met 3 people from the USA, it was time!
I buy a exercise book to learn more vocabulary, grammar and conjunctions (I struggle a lot with the last two).
I buy an English book on a subject I know by heart. The first English book I read is “The subtle art of not giving a fuck” by Mark Manson (yes, cliché).
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I listen to my series in English, at the beginning with French subtitles and afterwards with English subtitles. And now without!
I write every day in English about my day in a little notebook, like really little, but it’s enough to think 5 minutes a day in English. And it’s a good start to create a routine. Sometimes I read the text on google translate to check how my pronunciation is.
I follow some certification on Coursera in English. Actually, I am on the class “The Strategy of Content Marketing” from the University of California, Davis. This way, I listen to native speakers talk about a topic I am working on. And I also improve my skills in my job.
I also wrote and read content here. Thanks to this platform, I can read about a lot of different topics and learn a lot of new words and see the construction of the sentence. At the same time, I do my Internet research in English in general.
Step by step, English is taking a bigger place in my life and thanks to this, I’m learning this language really fast.
In the future, I would like to take some classes for practice and be a correct teacher, so that I can really progress faster than ever.
PS: I am talking about speaking with native people in this text. You can force destiny and join some Facebook group of people who are from the country who speak the language you want to learn AND who live in your country. I am in the Facebook group “Americans living in France”. This way I can help them and improve my English. I am also on Bumble BFF, thanks to that I can match for met new people in a friendly way.
Other more common tips:
If you search on Google, you can find some application for speak with people all over the world, but I don’t have like it.
You can ask ChatGPT to speak with you or teach you languages too.
You can install app like Duolingo, Babbel or Lingoda to learn languages.
