I can only tell you what works for me, and this might be different than the answer someone else will give you (in fact, I'm sure it will.) But here is my opinion: I think this depends on how good your English currently is. If you are just beginning to learn a language, the most important thing to do is to learn basic grammar, and basic vocabulary. English is a phonetic language, and there are only 26 letters. It will be way, way easier to learn to read English than to speak it. Once you have an understanding of how the language works -- and you seem to -- the best way to get better at speaking it is to... speak it. I know, that isn't very surprising, and it's not a magic way to improve quickly, but it's really the only way to go about it. From the moment you think you are able to do so, you should be trying to have conversations with other people. Since you're living in China now, using a program like Skype can be good for this. But, let me also give you a simple and easy exercise that might help you. You don't need anyone to do this, you just need a few spare minutes: read things out loud. Find something that is on your reading level, or just a little bit higher, and read it out loud. When we read, we tend to pass over words quickly. But by saying them out loud, your pronunciation will improve, and the more you do it, the less you will stumble. It will make your communication better. 加油！

i totally agree with Chris' excellent advice above, the only way to get better at a language is to speak it as much as possible. My French only started to improve by actually speaking it with native speakers and I learnt quickly as I already had all the grammatical knowledge and vocabulary buried in my head. JUST SPEAK, it's that simple.

And not so long ago, we asked the same question. Personally, I was a bit lazy. 算了，接下来的还是用中文吧，毕竟我的 英文很差。在这里我就不说我们课本上或是朋友推荐的那些方法了，相如什么看书虫、电影、听英文歌了什么的，我就说说从Italki我们可以怎么学习！ 在这里，你可以看到很多一起学习的人，交朋友很重要。你的中文好，全世界有很多想学习中文的外国友人，这样你就可以加他们，并相互学习。他们也用WeChat、qq、Facebook等等，但最常用的是skype，你也可以试试，但是收费，具体什么功能你可以问度娘。其次，就是这里有很大的信息资源，你自己可以经常发些小文章，很多友人会帮你修改，当然直接付钱预订课程也行，我是觉得有点贵，因为汇率还比人民币高，555~~~。坚持每天来这个平台学习，当然闲余的时候也可以帮他们修改修改中文，他们的中文是很有意思的，不开心的时候还可以逗你开心呢！ 加油吧，放假都没怎么来这儿了，记住结交朋友很重要！ O(∩_∩)O~