This is the active side of language learning – exploring, playing, listening, and repeating.

Avoid sitting next to friends if you know they will distract you. Turning off your cell phone will also help make sure you are paying attention to your teacher.

This is how you carry a homework planner at all times. Entering homework, projects, tests and assignments as soon as they are assigned will make sure they aren’t forgotten about.

Expose yourself to as many songs, series, documentaries, accents and conversations as possible. This will help you understand how English sounds in different countries and how it is spoken by different people.

This encourages an interactive environment to keep you engaged. This gives you a chance to test your knowledge with others, quiz each other on the content, and help boost each other’s confidence.

The best study spot is one that is quiet, well-lit, and in a low-traffic area. Make sure there is a clear workspace to study and write on.

This is using English by using emotion, exaggeration, repetition and practice. Be inspired by your favorite actors and do the same?

This helps move material learned from short-term memory into long-term memory, which will help next time you have a big test.

Think of new expressions as a unit that you can’t separate. Allow yourself to forget about grammar or the meaning of each word until the expression starts to feel natural.

If there is one thing your brain enjoys, it is feeling useful. Our brains dislike wasting time with information we don’t use. (Maybe that’s why you keep forgetting the English words you tried learning yesterday!)