and in today's lesson we are going to talk about six things that you need to do

every day in order to improve your

English communication skills so if you have ever had that feeling

where you're about to get into a conversation and

freeze up or that really what you hear in your head

doesn't come out of your mouth then this lesson is for you!

And really the best part is that you don't need to go live

in an English-speaking country you can create your own immersion experience

wherever you are in the world so I promise you that if

you do these six things every single day you are going to notice

a huge transformation in your ability to confidently

communicate in English.

So let's get into it but quickly before

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Alright so this first one is really fantastic because it will help you with

all the other five tips that I have for you today.

So all the other five are actually going to be about

different things that you can do to learn and study that will help you

improve daily and one of the easiest way to make

different habits like this effortless is by connecting them to your already

existing daily routines.

Now although there's a lot of different

lessons out there about the same topic of different things that you should do

every day in English I haven't really seen any other teachers

talk about the importance of routines.

Now this is really about your mindset

for learning English, for me personally I really like planning

out my days and my weeks on Google Calendars now if you get in

the habit of planning out your days and your weeks and maybe even your years

it can be a really life-changing thing for you because all

of a sudden you're in control of where your life's going,

you get to design exactly what you want to happen in your life.

I actually use a guide from a website called Live Your Legend which is really

fantastic and it's also free, I will link that down in the description below.

Now I work a lot and so for me this is really essential to be able to fit in

all the important priorities around my work that's things like

exercising, meditating, cooking, doing other things

around the house, studying and currently i'm actually

learning how to sing.

Now you know just like brushing your

teeth or showering learning English should become something that is

non-negotiable, that you do every single day even if

it's just 10 minutes so of course to do this it becomes

really important to know your already existing daily routines.

So basically what i'm going to do to help you figure this out

is to ask you some different questions, now you can just think this in your head

but you might also want to actually get a piece of paper and write it down

because this will really help you to start thinking about your daily planning.

So first off,

All right now that you have that in your

mind or maybe even on paper it's going to help you a lot to think

about how you can fit the next five activities

into your everyday life now as an English learner listening is

essential you need to do it at least

twice as much as you speak

but the great news is is that listening is super convenient to fit in throughout

your day and there's so many different ways to do

it that you're guaranteed to find some way that you love

so definitely one way that maybe you're already doing is learning with music

now of course it's not enough to just listen to music on the radio in English

while you're driving to work you actually need to actively learn why

you're listening to music so of course you need to learn with the

lyrics now i really like Spotify because with most popular music they

show you the lyrics on screen while you're listening

so you probably can't do this in your car but maybe if you take the bus to

work or if you're somewhere else where you're

sitting and can listen at the same time this is a really fantastic way to learn

and then you can test yourself by going to LyricsTraining or downloading the

app on your phone and then of course once you've actually

learned the lyrics of a song then a really fantastic way to kind of

improve your English on the go is to listen to it while you're doing

other things just have it on in the background.

Now the next thing that you could do is listening to the radio or listening to

an audio book and if you're not already you

should definitely give listening to podcasts a try

a really great place to start could be with our own RealLife English podcast

which is a really great way for you to learn with kind of lessons like this

but it's more through informal native conversations between me

and Andrea your other fluency coach and Justin

so you can find that and subscribe on Spotify,

Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio or anywhere else where you listen to podcasts.

So i'll be sure to link that up here and down in the description below.

Anyways this is exactly why we did that exercise at the beginning

because now you can take a look at your schedule and think of what convenient

moments do you have

where you could be listening to things

in English.

So maybe while you're preparing your

breakfast in the morning you could be listening to the news on the radio in English.

you could listen to an audiobook while

you're in your car on the way to work or you could even listen to songs while

you're in the shower and sing along and this is a great way to improve your pronunciation.

So as you can see if you're creative

there's a million and one ways to improve your listening

and it's really convenient so if you do this then you can actually add

hours every day of english listening and really take your skills to the next level.

And by the way a really fantastic way to

build your listening habit and to take your English comprehension

vocabulary pronunciation and confidence to the next level

is with our RealLife Native Immersion course

now in this 41 week course you will learn with episodes of our podcast

and it's really a great way to expose yourself

to native English as it is spoken in the real world.

Plus you get PDF power lessons, vocabulary memorization software,

access to our fluency circle global community and so much more

and you can try for free right now with our Power Learning Week

simply click up here or down description below to learn more and sign up.

And on a final note do things because you enjoy them

don't just go and start listening to the radio in English because i suggested it to you.

If it's not already something you enjoy

doing in your native language because the most probable thing is that

if you start some new habit but you don't really enjoy it then

you're probably going to give up after a short amount of time.

So choose things that you already like doing

and that way you'll have fun,

you'll make it convenient

and you're really going to see a huge impact on your English.

Alright so we have talked about building

routines, we've talked about building different convenient habits

into your day, now let's talk about how you can develop some other habits that

will really help take your English to the next level.

I have a few suggestions for you but then I want you to get kind of creative

and think of other things that you could do.

So my first tip for you is actually journaling,

now various studies have shown the benefits of journaling

for things like reflection stress relief and increased gratitude

now as an English learner if you start doing this in English it's a really

great way to start practicing your writing every single day

and don't worry so much about mistakes most learners think that that might make

their English worse, it will not, really the important thing

to focus on is the actual daily habit of it the

actual practice of writing and one thing that you could

actually try doing is once you've built a habit of this

then go back like two weeks or so and look at the mistakes that you made then

kind of from the lens of what you've learned since

then and you can probably find some mistakes that you've made and correct

them yourself now another really great idea could be

getting a teacher because they can actually correct it for you

and they'll also hold you accountable to maintaining that habit.

Now my recommendation for you to get started with this

is to just start small by writing down three things every day that you're

grateful for, you could do this while you're having

breakfast in the morning or coffee or you could even do this just before bed

but i guarantee if you start doing this after a few days you're going to notice

that you're more positive and happy throughout your entire day.

So the next thing is meditation this is

one of my own personal favorite habits that has made such a huge impact on my

own life, now one benefit of meditation is that it

helps to make you more present now obviously the benefit of this is

that you enjoy every moment more, now of course it won't be all the time

at first it takes a little while to feel the effects of meditation

but if you do actually make a daily practice of this I guarantee

that you're going to notice it's just made a huge difference on your life.

It can also help you to be less reactive now this means you know with people that

you work with or your family members then maybe you won't be so quick to get

angry about things you'll be able to reflect on them more

and see other people's point of view more this is really helpful when you're

learning another language and you're more exposed to people who

have different points of views they're from other different cultural

backgrounds, also different studies have shown that

this helps to reduce stress and of course for you as an English

learner one of the most important benefits

is that it helps to improve your focus so that when you actually study English

you'll get more benefit from it.

Now some of the most successful people

that you can think of swear by meditation

just to give you a few examples Lady Gaga, Will Smith,

Katy Perry and Bill Gates are just a few names of people

who practice meditation every day and rave about the benefits of it.

So if you want to try meditation and feel its benefits then I'll definitely

link a couple resources down below, like two of my favorite apps that have

definitely helped me a lot Inside Timer and Waking Up and the great

thing about both of these is they are guided meditations in English which is

another great way to practice your listening

and finally we actually have an article on our blog explaining to you how

meditation can help your English so go check that out.

Now the other habit that you can try building is chatting using apps like

Whatsapp, Telegram or others and joining different

groups to practice your english now i talked about in the introversion

lesson that i made a couple weeks ago that this is just a really great way for

you to lower the bar and get some confidence communicating.

Now this is really fantastic too because you can just do it during a five-minute

break at work while you're having your coffee

just jump on the app and read some messages and respond and you'll be

getting a little bit of your English practice in.

Now I might be biased but the Fluency Circle community is probably one of the

best places where you can practice your English by chatting

now we have groups on both Facebook and Telegram

and this is included with all of our courses such as the ReaLife Native Immersion course

that i told you about before.

Next our TV series, now if you're like the average person you probably already

watch at least some TV so why not actually practice your

English while you do this now i'm not going to get into too many

tips for you here we can definitely do another video on

that but we already have a fantastic resource