5 SIMPLE HABITS that helped me become FLUENT in English

come from a simple Russian family and we never traveled abroad together there are so many people

on YouTube who show by example that you can learn English by yourself and you can become advanced

in English by yourself even if you don't have an opportunity to travel to an English-speaking

country I've realized recently that oftentimes we create hurdles for ourselves when in reality we

have this vast field of opportunities and right now because of the internet and YouTube we have

so much more opportunities so in this video I want to share five simple habits that help me improve

my English and become a fluent speaker start my day with listening to something in English when

I was a college student in Russia I had to wake up super early every single morning and catch a

train to go to college while I was on the train I had an hour to kill yeah it was pretty intense so

what I would do is I would listen to something in English I would either listen to a podcast

in English or I would watch a YouTube video in English if you really think about it this

simple habit didn't take any of my time because I use this principle of habit stacking I tied

my new habit of English learning of listening to something in English to something I already did on

a regular basis I knew that I had to go to college five times a week so it was a lot easier for me to

you know tie this habit of listening to something in English to my commute because I knew it was

happening you know because I had to go to college I had to attend all my classes and now this habit

is so ingrained into my routine that every time I call an Uber I'm not a college student anymore so

I don't have to go to class every single morning but every time I call an Uber maybe I have to go

to the gym for example I always want to listen to something in English I want to listen to a podcast

guys or I want to watch a YouTube video because for me when I'm going somewhere that's the time

when I can listen to something in English and work on my listening skills revise my vocabulary cards

every day I started creating online flashcards for the first time in 2020 and since then I've been a

huge fan of the space for petition technology has helped me a lot it really helped me when I was in

college and I had to learn Chinese because the Chinese language was my major believe it or not

I feel like right now my Chinese is definitely a lot worse because I don't practice it regularly

because right now all my time is dedicated to Spanish obviously Spanish and English but

because my English is already pretty good I can actually use English to learn Spanish and that's

exactly what I did when I was in college I used English to learn Chinese and obviously I had to

somehow memorize new words and to be honest at the very beginning I actually use paper flashcards I

just bought a stack of Post-its and I would actually like write every single word and its

translation but then I realized that for me personally it was not very effective because

I wanted to add a picture and I'm not very good at painting or drawing so I didn't actually want

to do it myself and that's how I came across SRS space repetition system and I'm using this

technology the system even right now the approach I'm using right now is I dedicate one day per week

for adding all of the new flash cards because I don't have enough time to do it every single day

because I have a job I have to work I have to go to the gym you know take care of my physical and

mental health and sometimes I don't have enough time to do that like to create all of the new

flashcards so that's why I prefer to do it on the weekend and then during the week I revise all the

flashcards usually it's like 20 to 50 flashcards every single day unless I skip a day obviously you