The most important thing you must bear in mind is that reading and
listening are inputs whereas speaking and writing are outputs. In other
words, if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you
should first master the skills of reading and listening. There are some
ways that you can do so, which I will try to summarize.
1) Reading
Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that
you must think about the structure, unfamiliar words etc as you read.
There is no need that you stick to some complicated grammar structures
or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the
fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever
you see them for example in other passages or books is enough. It would
be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the
important words or structures in it. To begin reading, I recommend the
Penguin Readers books. They are classified by level of difficulty.
2) Listening
As for listening, there are two options:
Aside from reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes.
You can only concentrate on your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening.
I myself prefer the latter because when you are skillful and native-like
at reading, your listening skill grows automatically. Since you have
lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is
going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.
For listening I recommend cartoons or some movies that are specially
made for children. Their languages are easy and do not contain
complicated phrases or slang terms. Or if you are good at listening you
can listen to VOA or BBC programs broadcasted every day. Again the thing
to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some
notes.
If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will
improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort
they will become perfect.
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