How TO Break Through the English Learning Plateau

Question 1

Enjoy the process:

Answer 1

· Enjoy the process and journey of learning English Language.

· Focus on small achievements.

Question 2

Best way to improve English:

Answer 2

· Make English a part of your daily life.

Question 3

Spaced Repetition:

Answer 3

· Spaced Repetition is must to master a language. Apply spaced repetition on vocabulary, grammar, structure, expression etc.

Question 4

Become an active learner/listener/Reader/Speaker:

Answer 4

· Don’t just want videos and listen to podcasts in English thinking that everything will be absorbed itself. You will have to make an active effort and make your brain work to learn.

Question 5

Laziness/familiarities/Challenge/Comples/Comfortable:

Answer 5

· You are using your go-to grammar as a crutch. This means when you get to the intermediate level you get structures in your muscle memory and you always use them only. So make more complex sentences that you can try writing 1st and do it for 5 minutes daily and you can write anything that you like. Doing so will help you identify the difficulties or sentences that you do not know how to express so just look up for the same. These are small opportunities but they do wonders. You can also try to construct complex sentences while speaking if you can

· Challenge yourself to extend your learning - Learn new words and incorporate them in your daily life and also try to remember the other words which are similar to the new word.

· Challenge: Challenge yourself and pick more difficult content for yourself to read and listen this will aid you to hone your writing and speaking skills.

· Challenge yourself, Step out of the comfort zone. Try to speak about the topic that you are not/less familiar with. Incorporate new and complex vocabulary and grammar structures.

· Stop doing the same thing and start doing things differently. Change things up.

· Don’t be comfortable, challenge yourself with everything. Change your way of learning things. Coz now you are comfortable with everything like speaking listening etc.

· Challenge yourself in speaking as well because you speak normal words and sentence every day and to get better you need to challenge yourself.

Tyr pick up the topic that are not familiar and speak about them to come out your comfort zone

Question 6

Listening:

Answer 6

· You are using too much shallow processing in listening. It meaning you are just listening to the familiar words and not paying head to the grammatical pattern and vocabulary. Start paying attention to listening by keeping a language notebook and pay more attention and become a better active listener. Try to catch how they say things and what vocab and grammatical format they use. Note down all your observations, and curiosity etc in the journal.

Question 7

Input:

Answer 7

· Your input should be from variety of books, speaker, podcast etc. It will help you in vocabulary and grammar structures.

Question 8

How to take reading skills from B1 to C2

Answer 8

· Read the content that you are not familiar with and try to guess the meaning of the words that you are not familiar with. This will enable you to fathom the context of the conversation.

· Reading as much as possible. You can read transcript of your favorite series.

Question 9

How to take listening skills from B1 to C2

Answer 9

· Listen the content that you are less/not familiar with and pay close attention to the new words, grammar rules and pronunciation.

· While listening, make an honest effort to comprehend everything like different accent.

· And also pay close attention to how well-spoken people of English language apply advanced grammar rules.

Question 10

How to take writing skills from B1 to C2

Answer 10

· Whatever you read and listen to, apply all that on writhing. Your observation, advanced words, advanced grammar rules etc. which all that down.

· Write your heart out. Play with sentence structure and be/get more creative.

Question 11

How to take speaking skills from B1 to C2

Answer 11

· Incorporate all the advanced words and grammar rules in your daily life conversation. Also use synonyms of all the words and sentences that you have to avoid repetition.

Question 12

You not getting enough corrective feedback:

Answer 12

· Let people know that you want to be corrected.

Question 13

Change things:

Answer 13

· You need to change thing a bit. Change your learning pattern or something else because you brain gets used to the same thing that you have been doing over a period of time as you get used to any exercise so you need to change the exercise.

· Watch different speakers, channels, podcasts etc.

Question 14

Set a GOAL:

Answer 14

· Set a GOAL that requires you to work harder. (like take some kind of English test etc.)

Question 15

Take Notes Actively:

Answer 15

· Let’s say, while a conversation, you struggled with making sentences because you did not have right glossary and sentences. To avoid such awkward situations, you better note down the correct words and the sentences that you could have used in the conversation and keep learning them until you are at home in them.

· While watching, reading or listening to something, you encounter a word or grammar rule to which you are a complete stranger, note that right then and there and make sure that thing stick to your mind forever.

· Keep a note book while watching or listening so that you can take down the words and sentence when encountered one.

· Take down notes of the errors you make and try to remove them.

· Learn the words and expression that you struggle with while speaking.

Question 16

Shadowing:

Answer 16

· Start shadowing to improve your accent, understanding the correct use of words and sentence. You can watch friends again and shadow them as they are the real life conversations.

· Shadowing real life expression etc. from podcasts, tedtalks, interviews etc.

Question 17

Learn vocabulary in a context:

Answer 17

· Words that you learn, learn them in a context so that you can remember them, otherwise will not be able to use the words.

· Don’t learn single word, learn a phrase instead.

· Don’t learn words and rules separately as this increases the learning curve and long plateau. Try to learn them in context, expression and sentences that you can incorporate in your daily use.

· You may use a word in a wrong situation/context that’s why you should read or ask Chat GPT for the correct use of words.

Question 18

Vocabulary in variety:

Answer 18

· Make a diverse vocabulary for diverse topic to discuss or talk about. Like Politics, Atmosphere, Science etc.

Question 19

Don’t dwell on mistakes:

Answer 19

· Don’t spend your time on miner mistakes like on a team or in a team, this will only prevent you from speaking. So just speak without hesitation.

· Don’t fear from committing mistakes and being judged. You will reach C1 or C2 level only by speaking so do not fear or hesitate.

Question 20

Understanding Different Accents:

Answer 20

· To be able to understand all kinds of accents, you need to listen to variety of speakers from. You can listen to Tadtalks, podcasts etc.

Question 21

Always Track your progress:

Answer 21

· Track your progress.

· Video record and voice record yourself.

Question 22

Native content:

Answer 22

· Use more Native content.