Is your English good but not as good as you’d lượt thích it đồ sộ be?
Do you feel you’re not making as much progress as you used to?
The same happened đồ sộ bủ.
When I got đồ sộ a high level of English, everything slowed down and it felt lượt thích I was not advancing anymore.
Yes, I could communicate well and make myself understood. Yes, I could participate in conversations and understand others, native speakers included.
But I wasn’t 100% happy about my English. There was still something I hadn’t mastered that made bủ think that my English was somehow incomplete.
Sound familiar?
Maybe you’d lượt thích đồ sộ use more idiomatic language instead of always using the same old words. Maybe you can’t build sophisticated sentences.
Perhaps you can’t come up with the most accurate word when having a conversation and get stuck.
In my case, my Italian accent and my relatively limited vocabulary were the two main things that kept bủ awake at night.
I wish I’d known this little formula đồ sộ keep improving my English:
further progress = specific problem + focused practice
Translated, this means that if you’re not very specific about what you want đồ sộ improve, you can’t direct your focus toward specific actions that will help you make further progress.
Be vague about what you would lượt thích đồ sộ improve and you’ll be likely đồ sộ waste your time doing things that won’t actually contribute đồ sộ the achievement of your goal in any considerable way.
Let’s say you want đồ sộ be able đồ sộ write longer and more expressive sentences.
This is a very specific goal.
What would most help đồ sộ accomplish it, participating in general conversation classes or spending time analyzing beautifully crafted sentences you’ve come across in a book that you like?
So hone in on 1 area you want đồ sộ improve and stay laser-focused on that only.
Want đồ sộ grow your vocabulary? Make this your sole priority. Everything you bởi must aim at growing your vocabulary. Forget about pronunciation or grammar.
For example, if you know you’re going đồ sộ have a conversation in English, phối yourself the goal of coming out of that conversation with at least 1 new expression.
Watching a movie? Set yourself the goal of having at least 5 new expressions noted down by the over of it.
Direct all your actions and energy towards 1 single language goal.
Proudly ignore all the rest.
This is one way đồ sộ keep improving at more advanced levels. I talk about this in this YouTube đoạn phim on my channel.
Another way is to do a SWOT analysis of your English.