Key 3. Trust yourself.

First, you need to believe in yourself. Trust yourself. You will succeed. Just accept this as a fact. You will succeed! Don’t listen to people who say English is hard and it is almost impossible to learn and speak fast and easily. The only person you trust is you.

Start with small steps. Get results. Continue with other steps on your way to study English. You need to see the results. It is important because you need to believe in yourself. You need to believe that you can conquer English and you will succeed. Praise yourself for little gains. It is really important.

The first step for that is your own wish, a wish to speak English, a wish to be proud of yourself, a wish to become more successful and luckier for anything that you want to do; for anything you want to achieve in your life.

Be positive and attentive, be smiling and believe in yourself, because if you can’t be yourself, what are you living for? People used to say you will not succeed and all you do is wrong. Forget it. Don’t listen to those people. Stop thinking like them, you are special, you are here, reading this text; it means you are lucky and lucky enough to achieve any goals in your life.

The most important thing in life is to believe in yourself, your power, your abilities. Knowing that it is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. If you believe in yourself, you can get anything. Anything you want. We do believe in miracles, we have it every single day in our lives. Really!

Try to realize how deeply you can go into the English language World while you are listening, reading, realizing and remembering all the stuff from the texts, videos and the songs and any other materials. It is so amazing to know and feel all the moments, steps and stages like you go deeper and deeper into the ocean. You don’t feel the land anymore, but it doesn’t stop you, you are so excited to go further and feel something new. Step by step, phrase by phrase, speech by speech. At some point you can’t stop anymore because now it’s a part of you, and a part of your life, your heart and body. You can’t avoid it.

Study when you really want, when you need. But never do it if you have to. You really do not have to. That’s only your choice and nobody else’s. Take it easy. Just listen to your feelings and trust yourself.

Key 4. Listen to native speakers.

One of the best and really helpful ways to start speaking English is listening to the stories in English. You can start by reading some easy stuff like books for kids. You will find some simple phrases while reading, see basic grammar and understand the meaning. Download audio books and hold their text in front of your eyes. When you find an unknown word in the text, you should always try to guess the meaning. Try to think what this new word means. And in case if you really have no idea then go and find it in a dictionary. A paper dictionary – not an electronic one. The reason for that – you will remember this word better. Also other words will be remembered as well. Because while you are searching you’ll see other words, you could remember word position on page. It helps a lot.

Try and you will see, you will notice that as soon as you finish reading and listening your first, second or third story or book. You will see it’s a kind of (a) magic, that you will try to repeat some phrases, remember the words and you will find out it’s not so hard to find the meaning in the dictionary.

Also you will copy the pronunciation automatically. At the beginning pronunciation is not the main point to pay attention to. It will appear later. After you will listen to the natives a lot. It will come in a natural way. Also natives will correct you when you sound terribly. So don’t worry. Leave it for now.

After your first audio books when you will be able to recognize separate words switch to another audio source. It should be normal stories from ordinary people. Check youtube videos, listen to podcasts and songs, watch TV shows, original movies. Use subtitles at the beginning but turn them off afterwords. You can listen to English speakers, phrases they use, word-constructions they speak, even the slang which is very useful to know.

Start to watch some short videos, listen to some conversations. You will learn English with your ears and eyes!

You need to watch and listen to what you like, what you are passionate about. If you like planes – listen to native speakers who talk, make reviews, discuss news about planes etc. The more you watch and listen, the more you remember. You will understand more and more. Your pronunciation will improve.

The very important thing from the beginning is to read English texts with audio. Only in this case you will remember pronunciation much better. It is a significant moment. And only after that you can read. Text itself is useful only if you know how to pronounce it. In other words reading books without audio is useful only after you learned pronunciation.

Listen to song by song and stop them from time to time. Write down the words you heard on paper and try to remember them in whole sentences and phrases.

Listen to native speakers!