How to improve your English skills

By Elvin Herrera

The domain of a language is measured in the use of English skills so it is important to ask ourselves what about our language skills as a second language? Have these already acquired in the mind or do they need more practice? If we want to know what is our level or quality of language we must focus in our listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Learning another language requires a lot of time because it is a constantly process where we are involved with several contexts of knowledge. Therefore, we will never speak, read, write or listen to English like a cracking of fingers because there some strategies that we must follow all the time, that's if we want to be recognized inside a linguistics environment of English. There are many things that we can do for improving our skills although the most important aspect of learning a language is summarized in communication, motivation with ourselves and determination for achieving goals.

We must not forget that learning English means communicate the language. Unfortunately, schools have been leaving out this important skill of learning, bilingual education systems have to start to produce English in the students and how can they do it; well, the answer is working hard in our language skills through the communication. Our environment is the first element in where we can improve all these skills; the classroom has to be a stimulating place of interactions with the language. Every single space to practice any of those linguistics competences should be our chance to improve our English. We have our classmates for speaking all the time so do it; books are around whatever site so read them, we born with a lot of imagination in our heads so use it for writing. Morever the internet offers incredible websites where we can strength all these skills; so then what are we waiting for, we should star using all these resources.

The key for realizing whatever activity is in doing it with motivation because we need stimulus to work well. When we do something that we enjoy, it is sure that we are not going to forget that experience, it will be kept in our mind and the most important part, it will be available to attach the knowledge that we acquired. Learning English has to be great, not boring and we can catch up this condition if we add our special sense of learning. Perhaps, you like listening to music so it is time to get it for learning English, the same situation if you like movies, go to watch movies in English. My point is that we can learn more if we do something that we love. Being motivated is essential for improving our skills of the language because this process of learning could be exhausting, anybody learn English immediately so we must make every situation of learning the most amazing experience of our life.

It is easy to say “I am going to speak English very well”. However, inside these words must be a lot of determination with us. Learning English has to become a habit, something that we can do everyday like our meal time, a need to continue living. Every skill of English has to be worked continuously; one skill practiced per day could result an excellent way to improve our language. Sometimes, little things make incredible results but only if we are constant in the way. Consequently, if we read, write or listen to English at least fifteen minutes every single day, at the end we will achieve great things; our quality in the language will be reflected in how we communicate with others. Just at this moment, we finally will be able to say that we speak English very well.

Learning English requires a lot of creativity and imagination, this aspect of language allows us to interact with the skills that we need to handle. The bases of teaching English has to be focused in communication, speak English is produce English accompanied of motivation which is the bases to keep going in the process of learning with a state of safety for realizing the goals that learning a second language requires form us. Listening, speaking, reading and writing are skills of English which have to be present all the time in our process of learning and only making them work very well is how we will feel the great results such as part of this beautiful communicative human expression. Accordingly, my time of putting into practice my writing skill have finished at the same time that you may have finished your daily practice in your reading skill.