Pretty regularly someone will ask me to put subtitles or captions on these here videos.

If you want to improve in English quickly, you need to do LESS, not more.

Question someone asked:

“My friend has been taught English very ineffectively for almost two years. How can his English improve to a conversational level without changing school?”

Fact: many of the problems you THINK you have with English aren’t the real problem at all.

Walk down any British high-street and you’ll see things like:

“We have the “cheapest” prices in town”

… which does nothing other than prove a lot of native speakers are TERRIBLE at English.

I see it all the time:

People waste time “practising” English with partners and conversation teachers, then wonder why they can’t speak English well in the real, fast-paced, high-pressure situations they actually need to use English.