{"id":28002,"date":"2019-12-27T12:15:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T12:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=28002"},"modified":"2019-12-27T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T12:15:13","slug":"how-to-achieve-native-english-fluency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/how-to-achieve-native-english-fluency\/","title":{"rendered":"How to achieve native-like English fluency in 45 minutes a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Let me start by saying that consistency is the key! Additionally, consistency leads to English fluency.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will hear this phrase a lot from me because consistency is definitely the answer to such questions as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I learn a foreign language?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I improve my English grammar?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can I learn more English words?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I practice basic English conversation questions?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foreign language doesn&#8217;t come easy to everyone, but hard work and persistence pay off.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why do you need to practice grammar every day?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you know that many adults struggle to achieve native-like fluency of a language, while <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-the-baby-brain-can-learn-two-languages-at-the-same-time-57470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">babies are born ready to learn several languages<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baby brain is born to identify every sound that they hear, and after a while, they concentrate on the ones they hear the most. Their tongues and mouths are prepared to pronounce almost every sound without an accent. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a while of living by one language, our brains get used to speaking it and struggles with acquiring native-like speech of another one.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That happens because of the consistency of parent-child communication (hearing of words, phrases, sounds, etc.).\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;re not a baby, but you can borrow their method of learning and start consistent (daily in this case) practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Tips and tricks to use every day to improve your grammar<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make time for grammar rules.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;re learning grammar, you&#8217;ll need a companion book that will help you find rules and practice them.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;re already studying English at school or with a private tutor, grammar books will help you revise the material, which is excellent! If you&#8217;re all by yourself, keep the book to you and force yourself to learn and revise the rules as much as you can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Learn English fluency with apps\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;re a smartphone user, you can download <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/tag\/7-apps-help-anyone-improve-english-grammar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English grammar apps <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and practice learning daily while on public transport, just sitting around or trying to pass some time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Repeat sentences every day, several times<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most natural tricks you can do to learn to hear a sentence (if it&#8217;s correct or not) is to repeat it to yourself many times.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Time by time, the sentence (and the words) that you hear becomes normal and natural to your ear. English fluency seems to be within the horizon.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Listen to a video every day, several times<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This trick might sound a bit similar to the previous one. Instead of repeating sentences yourself, take a video that you find exciting or relaxing, and listen to it over and over again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Practice chatting with someone\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A pen pal is such an old concept, but I romanticize it too much not to include it in this list.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can find someone to chat with on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English Forums<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, social media, or other online platforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Write and translate in English<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experience comes from practice. If you want to learn to write better English, you should start writing now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Write whatever you&#8217;re thinking down<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Write something down in your language and translate it in English<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Express your feelings in English and write them down<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Use a highlighter<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s a must-do trick for me. Anytime you find something complicated for you, and you find yourself stuck with the same mistake, highlight that part, to make it visually more noticeable for you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>How to plan English fluency in 45 minutes a day?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowing that you need to study for 45 minutes every day is not enough. You might end up with some extra minutes, not knowing what to practice next.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Planning is essential if you&#8217;re serious about improving your grammar.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will give you a template guide, and you can fill in the minutes with your favorite activities.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, we need to separate 45 minutes into sections of time, meaning that you will have five separate 9-minute windows to study by different methods. (or nine separate 5-minute windows; three separate 15-minute windows, etc.).\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See if this plan works for you:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First nine minutes, you will <\/span><b>practice learning grammar rules.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take your first nine minutes to learn or revise one grammar rule. You can take it up a notch and learn more than one, but since we&#8217;re studying every day, it&#8217;s not necessary to stress yourself with extra material.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">learn the rules<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">practice it in written exercises\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">practice it in spoken activities\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">highlight the fundamental principles\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Second nine minutes, you will translate text into English.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Come up with a text, take something from the book, ask a friend or a tutor to give you something to practice with. Sit down and start translating it.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You might need someone to overlook the mistakes. You can use Grammarly (an online English grammar tool), or ask a friend or a tutor on English Forums to take a look at your work.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Third, nine minutes, you will spend by watching a video.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choose a video of the week and watch it every day for the next seven days. I know, it might be tiring, there&#8217;s no suspense and nothing new to learn, but you&#8217;ll be getting used to English fluency with the correct grammar.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Fourth, nine minutes, you will spend by talking to yourself or a friend.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find a friend to practice the sentences that fall into the category of those days&#8217; grammar subject.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you can&#8217;t find someone to practice with, sit down, and repeat the sentences to yourself.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Fifth, nine minutes, you will learn new words.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;d like to keep the most interesting one as the last activity to keep the suspense.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learning new words can be hard but also rewarding and exciting. You will later find it helpful when you practice building new sentences.<\/span><br \/>\nVisit English language learning websites to take a language <em>proficiency test<\/em>, chat with learner communities, and improve your foreign language skills!<br \/>\nSome suggestions from the community give you great encouragement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know you are kinda fluent when you are listening to this video and reading comments at the same time and still being able to understand both.<br \/>\nWhen you accidentally speak the language you\u2019re learning, with your friends or family, you&#8217;re making great progress!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep up the good work, follow the plan, and you will achieve your goals. Forty-five minutes a day is enough to learn something firmly and don&#8217;t overstress the brain. English fluency, here I come!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start by saying that consistency is the key! 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