hey guys welcome to lingua marina today we're gonna talk about a 30-day plan to learn english and uh what i want you to do right now is uh first of all to take out your exercise book or maybe a note in your phone in order to write things down because we're gonna go through the plan day by day i'm gonna tell you what you're gonna do and i guarantee you that if you follow this plan by the end of day 30 you would be amazed how english has become your habit and how diverse the world of english is that means that every day you can find something new and something exciting to do in english and this is the whole goal of this video so please make sure that you listen carefully please make sure you watch it up to the very end and that you write things down day zero here you start with taking a test i found a perfect free test for you from lancaster university it tests your ability to listen to write and to read in english please take this test assess where you are and write a very specific goal like what is your goal with learning english i want to take toefl test and score 100. i want to get accepted to this university or i want to reach upper intermediate by date so you need to come up with a very specific goal and for the next 30 days you're going to work on achieving this goal and you're going to work on improving your english now ideally i would love you to download something that we've prepared for you down in comments below there is a small calendar that you can download that would follow my schedule and also some sheets that you can print out and just track your progress throughout the day just write something down so on day zero i want you to write down your test result and i want you to write your goal it is very important to note your test result because you're going to compare your results at the end of this 30 day marathon day number one listening here i want you to go to ed. ted.
com they have a lot of videos most of them are like two three minute long i want you to select a topic that you're interested in and i want you to not just watch the video and by the way you can watch it with subtitles or without subtitles i would recommend to start watching without subtitles and see whether it makes sense for you but it's also very important that you choose the video that corresponds with your interest like if you're interested in psychology take that video if you're interested in geography take a geography video then if you don't understand what's going on switch on subtitles and the next thing i want you to do is to click on the think tab because some of the videos on that website have a comprehension test that means you're going to test how much you understood and some of the videos also have additional information under the dig deeper tab please explore that one and share your opinion about what you saw in the discuss tab and when you share your opinion please let others know that you came here from linguamarina channel because this way you would be able to see people who actually came from this video and are doing the same thing with you and of course if you encounter new words write them down in day one section of the pdf file or exercise book that you're using day number two speaking on day number two you need to watch my video about 8 ways to practice english the link will be below and ideally sign up for the course that is called speak like a pro 2-0 this is a three-week marathon that can boost your speaking this course was created by my friend vina who is a professional english teacher and each marathoner will have a partner to work with when choosing a partner for you will make sure they have similar interests time zone and english comprehension levels many of our previous students keep in touch with each other and i think it's a great opportunity to not only practice your english but to also build your worldwide network there are 14 lessons and three live streams where you can ask all your questions this marathon is best for those who have an intermediate level of english or higher the next batch starts on april 5th so hurry up day number three reading on this day i want you to explore a free website with news for english language learners so they basically take news from all over the world but they are adapted for english language learners the website is called breakingnewsenglish. com the news there is divided into seven levels from zero to six so you can choose the one that suits you each news has several reading comprehension tasks and audio therefore if you want you can go practice listening on that website as well day number four writing on this day i want you to write an essay again using the pdf that we gave you or an exercise book i want you to write an essay about your ideal day in five years oh my god guys this task will not only help your english but would also help you work on your goals because if your ideal day looks like oh i wake up and i have breakfast with three of my kids and you're not even married then you know what you're gonna do the next five years or your ideal day looks like waking up in a different country then you know what you're gonna do so please write a small essay about your ideal day i would say two to three hundred words that's enough to practice your writing day number five grammar on this day i want you to select one particular topic grammar topic that you're struggling with is it present perfect or present simple or conditionals and then you go to i give you two options two different websites the first website is learn english. britishcouncil.
org or if you're a teenager there is second option you can use learnenglishteens. britishcouncil. org and you type into the search bar the topic that you struggle with the most and you read the materials on that topic day number six have you been writing down the words that i told you to write down during your listening exercises on ted doing other stuff that you were doing now this is the day where you select 10 words that you think are the most useful maybe you heard them several times during your practice maybe you just realize they are super useful for your future and today i want you to highlight those words write them down once again and also create a sentence with each word and then spend around 10 minutes just looking through those maybe googling them and looking at images that are associated with those words and try to memorize them day number seven is day off but this is a day of in english so do whatever you want to do but in english watch my videos on silicon valley girl or watch a tv show on netflix or listen to music in english but take five minutes to go back to the words that you highlighted yesterday or on day six and read them once again because this would really help you memorize them day number eight listening today you're gonna listen to a song that you really like and you need to try and write down the words that you hear and then of course once you've written them down you try to sing together with a singer and only then after you've done this you go and google the actual lyrics and see how close you were if you don't like music you can listen to the podcast from bbc 6 minute learning before listening read this week's question and vocabulary after listening go back to the question and answer it the bbc also has a wonderful podcast the english will speak there you can find two three minutes podcasts where the meaning of the word is explained and examples of its use in speech are given do not forget to highlight words that you've encountered for the first time and spend at least five minutes memorizing them day number nine speaking again one of the most important parts of learning the english language you can continue practicing with your speaking buddy i hope you enrolled in the course speak like a pro to zero but i also have the whole series of videos where i teach you how to speak like a native speaker mostly american english so please watch one of the videos and start practicing your new accent day number 10 reading again and i'm gonna give you a couple new ideas where you can practice your reading you can go to a website rongchan.
com reading this set is for those of you who are just starting learning english it contains text about various topics each text has an audio and some of them have tests for checking your understanding and another website is called dreamreader.
