Talk with my roommate Yesterday, I and my new roommate talked more than one hour.She one year younger than me, came from Beijing same to my boyfriend. In order to improve her english skill , She came to British for one year, which it caused lower salary and long distance with her newlywed husband. However, After she was staying british for 2 weeks, She found not any improvement of english due to working and living with chinease people. So she is sad. I recommended she should have some hobbies and take part in local activites, or move out dormitory to live with local briton. After that, you could know many new friends and immerge in english environment. Except those, it's same important that you should spend the rest time to study it, learning grammar, remembering words, reciteing sentence and pattern of specific expression. I recommended the italki and 51talk to her which I was using. In addtion, She accepted the invitation to go to church with me this sunday. Good luck.