speaking, reading and writing.read a book in English for an hour every day, analyzing the grammar in sentences and looking up words in an English dictionary listen to an audiobook or other recording in English,stopping it frequently, trying to understand what is being said,and trying to imitate the speaker's pronunciation carefully write an e-mail message in English,using a dictionary or a Web search every 20 seconds to make sure every word is correct, and taking 5 minutes to write one sentence.