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Side question: how did you improve your english? Was it deliberate practice or just something you get better at

• namaemuta 10y ago
  I don't know about him but, when you have a certain skill level in English, the best way for me to improve is by reading tons of books in English. That's the way you learn vocabulary/expressions you usually don't use and how to use them properly.
• armandososa 10y ago
  Most of the media I consume (movies, series, articles, books, podcast) have been in English for the past ~10 years and it did not help much my communication abilities. I actually have a vast vocabulary (sometimes people mock me for using fancy words) but I still struggle writing "natural" english because, for the most part, I still have to translate from Spanish (or Mexican, rather :P) to English in real time. As for spoken communication, what I needed was a boost of confidence. In my last job I always avoided talking to people because I was too self-conscious of my accent and constant pauses for real-time-translating. Then, one day, a friend noticed it and said to me: "Dude, don't worry about your accent. I live in Manhattan, everybody has an accent here and it's no big deal." And I was like, "yeah". And just like that I started speaking more and slowly became better at it. So, it was confidence for me.