1-Move in with an English-speaking roommate
2-Date an English-speaking person:
3-Smile. No matter what people are saying: just smile. People will feel good talking to you and in time you may be able to catch a word or two. Remember: Adjust your smile to their mood to avoid detection. If you see they are serious aim at a sort of melancholic smile. Also change your smile every so often unless you want to be taken for a retard.
4-Dump the classes.
They only help at a basic level you will never use in daily life. The first time you pick up a phone and you don’t understand a single word, you realize how much money you spent for nothing.
5-Read tons of crappy literature:
The crappier, the more useful it is in real life. Avoid 19th century British literature. Although brilliant, you may end up referring to your key as a skeleton key and describing people’s age as three and twenty. And believe me, people will laugh. My personal recommendation: chick lit. Americans for basic English; British ones for a touch of shallow chic vocabulary (where else would one learn the word ‘naf’?)
6-Question the knowledge you acquired in your home country:
No matter how many Latinos say it's correct, the word denankiu does not exist in English. Stay away from foreign friends if needed until you acquire a decent amount or REAL English words.
7-Do not even bother with the infamous ‘th”:
unless you are a truly gifted linguist. If you are French, please, forget it even exists.
8-Don’t look for rules:
Most languages have pronunciation rules. English doesn’t. Don’t think that ‘u’ and ‘o’ together are pronounced as ‘uo’. The resulting sound may be ‘uu’ or ‘oo’ or ‘ou’ or just silent. Don’t complain, you got it easy on the verbs department.
9-Visualize:
To improve your pronunciation, imagine a crazy queen standing in the background enunciating, “The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain.” DO NOT replace the queen with Eliza Doolittle, You may end up speaking with a cockney accent.
i hope this tips help you
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