Long-term study of a foreign language at school does not always lead to proficiency in it. All kinds of courses help to improve the situation, however, there may not be enough time or money to attend them. You can improve the level of a foreign language on your own, making the study useful and interesting.
Necessary
- - computer;
- - books;
- - the Internet.
Instructions
Step 1
Try to read literature in a foreign language. If your level is not high, choose adapted editions and simple genres (for example, fiction). Perhaps at first you will come across a lot of unfamiliar words, but gradually you will notice that a certain layer of the most common vocabulary is used in the text. After 1-2 books, it will become easy for you to read, and you will be able to move on to more complex works.
Step 2
Find a way to communicate with a native speaker: It's pretty easy today. Try to meet foreign friends on internet sites and communicate via skype. When traveling abroad, talk to locals whenever you can.
Step 3
Choose a foreign Internet forum of a topic of interest to you. After registering on it, first just try to read the most popular topics. Pay attention to speech patterns, abbreviations, slang, unusual colloquial expressions. Gradually start responding to posts and expressing your opinion. It is quite possible that with regular communication on such a resource, you will very soon cease to stand out from the general background and join the circle of formuchans. In addition, thanks to the forum, you can find new friends of interest who speak a foreign language.
Step 4
Make it a good habit to watch news in a foreign language every day. So you will not only learn different opinions about the events taking place in the world, but also enrich your vocabulary with the most correct and commonly used vocabulary. Be prepared for the fact that at first it will be difficult to perceive foreign announcer speech at a fast pace, but gradually you will begin to understand more and more.
