Learning English is a long journey

I have been learning English for 8 years but focusing on it for 2 years. English, as people say, is an international language. Although you choose to learn anything, hard work plus concentration is always vital. No matter how many years I have learnt this language, every day is new knowledge. 

Vocabulary is one of the most significant thing. Although you can listen, you can speak but you don't have a rich vocab, the topics you talk about will be limited. Everytime when I look back to the journey I have been through, I feel bad about myself because my humble English ability. Every morning I wake up with an English newspaper app like the guardian, BBC and listen to Mark Wiens, one of the well-known travel bloggers I have known these days. I realise if I don't concentrate on this language seriously, I am killing myself.

There is a big gap between how you learn to have a certificate and how you learn to become an English user. And sometimes, I get frustrated to remember all the words. I forget them easily and even when I try to read newspaper, magazines and books in English, I find it hard to remember one certain word when writing, talking. I only know it when I read it but remembering it to use it is another story. When I talk about politics, I seem to be dumb. I try to gather all the words I know: unstable, the government, the democracy, the republican, senator, constitution, conflict, muslim, feminism, racist, civil war and so on. Learning new words through each topic will help you to remember vocab more effectively. Sometimes I write some paragraphs, put each one in a topic and then analyse it. I think you need to arrange time for each skill clearly, for example: speaking 30 mitnutes one day, listening and dictating within at least 1 hour, writing an essay according to an availble topic in 1.5 hours and reading in 2 hours. I think after 1 or 2 months you will surely see the positive transformation. If you don't, let's change the strategies you use daily. Noboby is clever in setting their own plans until they fail and correct. 

Learning to master something require hard work, patience and effort. Overnight success rarely or never happens to anyone who is lazy with no vision, mission and goal for their own. You accumulate everything you learn day by day and then it becomes your own asset that nobody can steal. 

So learn and work hard to get your own feat!