How to improve your English just by using your computer If you’re knowledge worker or a digital artist or somebody else who spend lot of time in front of computer then you can speedup passive English learning by these simple tweaks: 1. Set the system language to English. You already familiar with all menus and button names. So it will be easy for you figure out which button to press. In return your English will be improving automatically while you do your stuff on computer. Also all software designed for English interface first. And often translations are made without context so when you see the translated menu items you have to guess what it was originally to understand what that feature do. And in some languages terms are so verbose that they breaks the UI or just do not fit in the available place. So, set the system language to English. Do it on all your devices. It may be difficult at the beginning but you will get used to it quickly. 2. Setup Google search to show results in English (and strive to do searches in English too). 3. If you use Mac then you can see definition of any word just by triple-tapping on it. Or by selecting the word and pressing Command+Control+D shortcut. Or by choosing Look Up “...” in the context menu. Avoid using translations. Read dictionary definition first. If you can read that notebook entry you will be able to guess the meaning of the word for sure. 4. Also you can make your Mac pronounce words for you. Or even read any text at loud! I just set up my Mac to do it yesterday. It’s a bit complicated and I’ll describe how to do it next time.