Over the past year I have improved my spoken English immensely, here's how: - I took about 30 lessons of one-on-one tutoring through Skype. It really helps to

Over the past year I have improved my spoken English immensely, here's how: - I took about 30 lessons of one-on-one tutoring through Skype. It really helps to have someone who is paid to hear your bad English, and to have the patience to point to you the mistakes that you are making. This costs about 20€ per hour, but it is worth it. - Read out loud. There was a period of about a month where I did this at least one hour per day. I read books, articles, even RFCs. It does wonders. - Made a good use of the "pronounce feature" that most dictionaries have nowadays. - Saw youtube videos on pronunciation and common mistakes. I also wrote a lot, about 2000 words per day (I wrote a AutoHotKey script to count number of times I hit space on any given day). Perhaps 2000 words is too much, and it tends to favor verbosity over succinctness. But you will get a LOT of practice. It also helps to read/hear good writers/speakers. I don't like movies/tv so much, as they have a low speech to time ratio.