Как заговорить на английском до Нового года?

1. Focus on learning useful phrases, not single words.

It’s much easier to start speaking English when you’ve learnt a handful of meaningful phrases. Learning words individually won’t help you to speak fluently.

2. Don’t worry about grammar

Most native English speakers have no idea about the grammar rules of their own language. For now, just keep focusing on learning phrases and sentences. These will become useful examples for you and will make the grammar much easier for you to understand in the future.

3. Learn from what you know

Watch films and TV shows that you already love again, but this time in English with English subtitles. As you’ve already seen them, it will be easier to understand the meaning of what is being said. Try to learn one or two new phrases every time.

4. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes

Everybody makes mistakes speaking English, even native speakers! We need to make mistakes so we can learn from them. Embrace your mistakes!

5. Get to know your mirror

Your mirror is your friend. It won’t laugh at you when you make mistakes and it won’t get bored of you repeating the same phrases over and over again.

6. Practice a little bit and often

Set yourself a target of learning one new phrase every day. Give yourself five minutes in the morning, five minutes at lunch and five minutes in the evening. Stick to that, and you’ll know 30 English phrases in a month. That’s a great start!