The opposite of hypothesis

If you hypothesize that it's true, you don't learn much, but if you hypothesize that it's false, you learn a lot!

MY BACKGROUND #

My mother tongue is Chinese, everything is almost the opposite of English. I was born and grew up in China for the most of my life. I came to the UK years ago and spoke no-man-understands English initially.

But I made it in the end by making friends with international friends and hanging out with British friends. I forced myself to speak English, think in English, ridiculously I even slept talk in English ( I had a witnesses because I was travelling with my mates);
I’ve been going to a English church, living with British friends etc.

My conclusion would be for 90% of language problems it would be ultimately how you learn and what your learning habits are.

META level #

To be specific, people who can’t freely express themselves in a second langauge would have a problem with thinking skills rather than langauge skills. Because expressing yourself freely may not be a good problem to solve. Those who ask this question may not express well in their mother tounge.

You have to split any language into some categories: language, knowledge , logic culture and communication

Each of them will affect your output.

LEARNING #

On top of this, it probably requires you to do deliberate practice.

Anything related to practice would have to answer a few questions: How much time do you spend in practice or can you spend any in practicing? What goals do you have?

If you goal is to have casual conversations, then your plan would be different.

I guess one of many people's goals is to focus on communication and anything associated with work. Then what situations you need to use English highly determines the vocabulary you're about to learn.

PRACTICAL level #

I recommend anyone who wants to practice SPEAKING finds a native tutor to speak with to test different topics and apply for topic-related vocabularies.

The best frequency is to speak with a tutor for 30 minutes each week, and you need to prepare for 30 minutes before the speaking lesson.

For others, it’s a conversation, but for you it’ll be a presentation.

You need to record yourself to listen. The best would be to follow with any voice actor you prefer, or you just need to reduce your mistakes

I suggest you can listen to lots of podcasts. Of which my favourite is Luke’s English podcast. He is a British.

Sidenote:
Learn English is really hard... I’m still not able to express myself freely when it comes to complex concepts in data to my non-math colleagues ( I’m a data scientist)
Also, my Chinese gets worse cause I don’t read and speak or think in Chinese.