6 Amazingly Free Resources To Learn and Practice English

Today's article will mainly focus on how to improve one's ability to be structurally sound and eventually become fluent in the English language, by relaying 6 tips on that matter. This article will substantially help the people whom are applying for and also those who want to use English in a productive form rather than memorizing for a test or an exam.

So let's start by focusing on the 4 branches of the IELTS test which are the listening, reading, writing and speaking.

1. Light Reading with Stumbleupon

One of the most essential things to concentrate your efforts on in the early stages of improvement is reading. Reading with no exaggeration is the key to learning all, Giving it rights to be at the top of your consideration. Now reading is categorized into 2 categories, light and heavy, if you want to mainly be reading articles, post and things related to magazines then our best bet here at Speak2Me to find such platform is stumbleupon because the core idea of said site is that it’s a surf-engine, meaning it guides you to the designated site that you want to visit according to your interests and of course the topic that you search for and in seconds stumbleupon provides you with the best outputs whether it is pictures, articles or videos about your topic in English.

Bonus: too much reading? Too boring? Comic books like Batman can be a great place to start!

2. Intense Reading with Goodreads

Meaning, that you have already surpassed the phase where you read small portions and want to enhance your reading experience and get into the most effective type of reading, which is reading in heavy amounts meaning of course BOOKS not only articles and magazines. You can use Goodreads as a book suggestion service. Taste kid also comes in handy, where you go to taste kid, tell it what you like, and it will find you similar books to read.

3. Light Listening.

In listening just as in reading we have both light and heavy and the "Lightest" things one can listen to are the videos that are, from 3 to 14 minutes long, of people who are generally successful in life simply giving talks and also the way of search is by topic, so you can pick whichever it is you like. The site is called ed.com and here's the kicker, you can also for an extra bit of help open something called English Closed Captions (CC) or more commonly known as subtitles, so whilst you're watching you can see the English words written across the screen in front of you which helps by milestones spelling wise and pronunciation-wise, especially if you find new word in any given video and want to get its spelling for the dictionary or thesaurus.

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4. Intense Listening

Concerning the heavy or intense listening, one of the most popular ways to do it is by watching English movies and series and one of the best sites that we found here at speak2me to be super effective is (123movies.to) that is because it's free, extremely easy to work with and most importantly has Subtitles or (CC). Considering that this site is not legal because you need to be paying for such services so it could be taken down but you could always find substitutes for it by searching on Google.

5.. Speaking and Writing

The last couple of things that this article will be addressing is speaking and writing. When it comes to speaking the only option is to find a native speakers to regularly communicate with and by native speaker that doesn’t mean he or she has to be American, not necessarily, but their speaking quality has to be high enough to be better than yourself or at least on the same level so you, so you could regularly fix each other's mistakes. So to find such people there is a site called (gospeaky.com) on which you will find people from all around the globe to chat with and improve your English.

Since we covered almost everything by now and we have come so close to the end of this article what a way to end better the by talking about writing, which is the hardest thing you can improve because writing in particular differs, even if you talked to a native speaker or hired a teacher they could be incapable of noticing each and every mistake in your writing because the IELTS exam has a very particular style of writing that mainly not everyone is familiar with and here is where we come in at Speak2Me. To solve your issue with the whole writing extravaganza you need to hire a professional IELTS English tutor (www.s2m.me Where the first lesson is free) to help you with your writing and correct you if you make mistakes, 6. Free Writing Correction: Then again not everyone can get a tutor so here is an alternative offer; you can visit our page on Facebook (Facebook.com/Speak2meIELTS) where Dr. Amr Ayman provides a weekly writing task and corrects it free of charge.

So there, I hope that this article has helped you out with anything that you needed and we here at Speak2Me hope that you accomplish all your hopes and dreams. Thanks for reading.