Improve Your English: From Upper Intermediate To Advanced With 5 Tips 

My English level is B2. I don't read books, but sometimes i read online articles, and hardly ever newspapers. Now I'm going to start reading books to improve my English. Thanks 👍

Why when non natives learn fluently to speak English they sounds more clear and flow better .. then many English' natives speaker. 🤔🤔

I 've taught english as a second language for over 35 years and I've practiced these tips throughout the years and they really work. I love your accent and admire how much enthusiasm you have towards english learning and how you project that enthusiasm to all your viewers. So, thank you for your energy you have to promote english learning to the world. Keep it up girl.

I have attained similar results literally by doing almost all what you've already mentioned way before I stumbled upon this video: Shadowing, watching with English subs, reading, translating the word, checking its context, talking to myself (as crazy as that might sound lmao). My spoken English leveled up ever since. Now I feel more confident, more at ease, and definitely more open to talking (although I'm an introvert). So yeah! Your advice is very practical and I recommend every person watching this to actually try it... you'd be surprised!

This year I was hired by a company where everyone speaks English. Before that, I wasn't confident speaking English, but now I feel confident speaking English. I made lots of mistakes speaking English for many reasons but the biggest reason was that I was afraid of being judged. So guys, make mistakes and don't worry about being judged, for sure you are gonna improve your fluency in speaking without any translation in your native language, I'm proof of that. If you don't have who to practice with, don't worry you can practice with yourself, just stay steady and everything will be fine.

I really don't understand why people unliked it! It's rare to see a video like that one. Your video is very realistic et not only the same advice that we can find in other videos. Especially the first tip, "Shadowing", is something that I've been practiced for a long time, but I've rarely seen someone talking about that. Congratulations!

You have an amazing American pronunciation, it's even difficult to admit that your native language is Russian. It was a great pleasure for me to listen to you.

Hi Rudmila, firstly, as an English teacher and native speaker from the UK, I have to say that your tips are excellent. I have made similar recommendations to some of your tips here. I will share this video with my upper-intermediate level learners. You are obviously a very disciplined at self-study and your motivation to put in the hard yards must have been a key factor in achieving your superb level of fluency and pronunciation in English. If I had heard you speak before knowing about this video, I would have said you were American without a shadow of a doubt. You've probably noticed that I'm using some idiomatic phrases, so how have you approached learning this aspect of English language? Regarding speaking to people who have strong regional accents, this would be a challenge for many native soeakers too. It's all about getting used to the different pronunciation of some vowel sounds and individual words and phrases. English communication is also strongly affected by intonation and stress, which you have absolutely nailed to perfection. In this video. Now here is another question for you, I hope you don't mind. How many hours of practice have you put into studying and improving your English from when you first began to learn English? My guess is that it would probably be around 10,000 hours, depending on a person's mother tongue and efficiency at learning. For example, studying and practising the four language skills of speaking, writing, reading and listening; this requires a lot of practice and repetition. To dedicate 10,000 hours to this could equate to an average of 1.82 hours everyday over 15 years. Many students of English may not appreciate this when they first start out, so the key is having a clear objective to drive you and practise as often as time permits, not just going to English classes or paying for English teachers and/or courses.

Tip 1: start watching friends (But they speak fast 😭)and try to speak like your favourite character. Tip 2: Start Reading Novels(A boring subject to me 😅) whether it takes extra time. Tip 3: Start using a dictionary (google translater, as I am using for writing it 😂) whenever you find difficulties in understanding. Tip 4: start writing everything in English (like a sorry letter to your x- girlfriend 😂). Tip 5: start talking with native( but how to make a friend 😅😂 ) speakers on social media like skype Here I would like to add one more tip. Tip 6: start using Grammarly keyboard. It checks your grammar and suggests your correct sentences while you type on a phone.

Thanks for pieces of advice. I am an upper intermediate and I partly agree with you. You are totally right when you say the best way to improve your speaking skills and get rid of your native language accent is by shadowing or repeating what natives say. On the other hand, I don't totally agree with you when you say we must translate to our native language when we are reading and we don't understand something, I have always used a monolingual dictionary to look up for the meaning of new words, it not only helps you to understand the meaning of the word, but also helps you to learn new words at the same time. Thanks a million, and I really hope I can step up my game and be an advanced user of the language someday. 😁

Hi Radmila, you know, I don't mind translating, but one technique I learned and used with many of my students was "breaking the mirror". In this case, you want to explore the different possibilities of a word or expression in as many situations as possible. For example, you can use an adjective like "hard", then you can think of possible uses for it, like hard table, hard day, hard working man (which is an adverb, in fact), and so on. You can also explore some techniques, such as strong collocations, fixed or semi-fixed expressions, phrasal verbs, etc. This is just a suggestion. But I loved your video and took many notes, so I can give some of your tips to my students. Thank you for the video.

These videos are really helpful, I watch them with my friends on Voicely whenever we practice English. We all agree that we learned more from RU-vid videos than from the English "lessons" we have at school

Instead of translating unknown words into the native language, I would recommend defining the word in the target language. This should not be too difficult for an intermediate learner and would produce greater benefits.

Sou brasileiro e espero um dia aprender Inglês. Obrigado pelas dicas, amei! I'm Brazilian and I hope to learn English one day. Thanks for the tips, I loved it!

Feel so easy to understand the words that came out from your mouth,,,,Cheers 👍

Really. You're fantastic. I love your way. Same here thanks so much

I'm from Nicaragua and I'm I'm really astonished for English Accent, taking into account your original country. Congratulations! I really enjoyed this video. Keep going so!

I will put every tip in practice for 6 months and then I will go back here to talk about my results.

I don't know why most non-native RU-vidrs offering English studying contents see "speaking like an American" as some kind of ultimate goal. I think being able to say exactly what you mean articulately (which not many can do even in their native tongue) is a lot more important than sounding like an American in popular TV shows.

I am supposed to learn British English because I live in England but I couldn't resist the temptation to subscribe to this RU-vid channel ..... you are awesome!

She is so smart that she speaks literally perfect American English as a native Russian!

Hi! I'm a first year BS Psychology student here in the Philippines. After I finish my undergrad, I'm planning to study abroad for my further studies. My English level is upper intermediate. Eventhough, I understand the english language perfectly, it's still hard for me to speak in english. Your advices seems very effective and I'm planning to practice them. Hopefully they'll work for me. Thank you for your video.

Thank you this can helps me to improve my english accent

Thank you Radmila. I'm from Ukraine myself, came to United States at 21. You are fantastic. Your accent pretty much nonexistent. You achieved nearly impossible. Awesome work!!!

I highly recommend practice watching speaking tests, either from Cambridge or any other YT channel and try to answer the questions the interviewer is asking to the guys before they answer (and then, once you finishe, check the guys' answer and compare it to yours)...and as last, what I do is try to give a second answer after the guys said their reply, contrasting their pov (that way is like if you were interacting with them). Hope this could help anyone here! :D

I focused on your t-shirt. "how you doing" is Joey as character in the best tv show "friends"

Girl, your pronunciation is much greater than at most of American native speaking bloggers.

As a History student I make some researches in English instead of my native language, Portuguese. It helps me to improve my vocabulary, not just in this field but in sofisticated, unusual an beautiful words that unfortunatelly are not used anymore in our days.

The good thing of wearing a mask is that I can speak to myself in English without anybody noticing it

Wow i loved this lesson you're an excellent teacher

Literally, everything I have ever done. Thank you for sharing. I, myself, am a C1+ level learner of the English language and I do follow an American Accent with its dialect. North American to be exact. And by the way, something I have done to be able to do that is watching the same movie over 100 times. Yes 100 Times. I was just copying and imitating the actors' monologues and dialogues (dialogs). By imitating, I mean complete feeling-copying, intonation-copying ... literally everything I was able to see.

What a beautiful and insightful woman. I also thought you were an English native speaker. Congratulations! and thanks for give me motivation.

I started to write my diary, so I hope to get a great english level as you have one day. Thank you for your advice.

Thanks for your tips & technique to speak English language fluently.

Hi Radmila! It's very helpful your video, I mean your advices are so interesting and I can see you are a model, your English is very good, fluent and you have a very natural accent, congrats!

you’re so fluent! i love to learn with you, pls make more videos about english! i’d like to watch it. also you deserve a lot of viewers and subscribers!

This is awesome! This will help so many people! Watching movies in subtitles is a great idea!

I am a begginer but i understand what you said. Very clearly

This is so important!!!!! Upper intermediaters have so much less resources and experience shared to help guide us go through this phase. Thank you so much!

You dont memorize separate words, you have to memorize the whole sentence! Thus you will know in which context to use it.

Thank you so much for this video! I actually did the same in order to learn german by myself and it was crazy how fast I learned it .

What a beautiful teacher.

Uallll your English is amazing, I’ve been living in England for about 4 and a half years and I just found your video to improve my English level. Thanks for the tips and congrats for your achievement !

Indeed a very helpful lesson for learning English in a comprehensive way. Thanks.

Oh Great, before watching this I really thought you were from United States. You have great accent. 👏👏👏

if I had a teacher like you in front of me I would not have skipped a single class even in Sunday. And my English would get better and better and better ......

I tried all of them the best one is talking with Urself

Great tips, Radmila! Thank you so much.=) I need to keep writing my journal. I know it's useful but couldn't make it a habit yet.

Hi, I've been using that strategy for almost 1 month, and honestly, it really helped me a lot. As a matter of fact, I wasn't getting your strategy for me to learn English, It was just a coincidence that we have the same strategy. I was just kinda thinking at that time if what strategy or those things that would gonna improve my English fluency. but yeah thank you also for this video because it also gave me hope to continue this strategy, and yeah the outcome of it were beneficial.

Thanks for your tips and i Will apply it.. let's goooo

Your accent is great. I'm from Brazil. Thank you for the tips!

2:17 fast forward there. That's when the video starts

I loved this video thank you for sharing. I'm intermediate and I think all of it will help me a lot from now on. How was your schedule to do all this things? I'm mean how many time spend in all this activities? How long it lasts for you to achieve such amazing level? You are an inspiration for me. Hugs from Brazil🇧🇷

Is so satisfying be able to understand everything she saying without needing subtitles😭

I live to listen your lesson frankly to your experience to get higher education

Since last 10 years I was watching RU-vid for those who are expressing their knowledge about learning English language. This video is the best of them, even if they were teachers in schools or professors in universities. Your advices came from experience and real results, not only theories like others. About my self, I am preparing for IELTS next month, and I hope to get band 6.! But the miracle is what I sow in my daughter, she started watching English songs in RU-vid since she was 2 years old, now she is 6, and she is speaking English like native, with British accent.! By the way, we did not live in any country that speak English, and I did not get her to school, or help her by any way, except an open plan of internet ... and an tablet. How you can explain that ?.

The only character I can shadowing is Groot

I think the tip about repeat things is very useful. Thanks

Your English is 99.9% there. Almost perfect, but some tiny details reveal non-native origins. Excellent!

Oh I'm from Ukraine too, I thought you were native Your pronunciation is perfect 😍

I love your T-shirt, i am also a F.R.I.E.N.D.S fan.

Great tips! I started shadowing, and see a huge level in my comprehension. Heard another crestor mentioning journaling. I cant wait, french is the language of love.

the tip from you about translating the new words immediately when you come across it, this is what quite different from other tutors

Hi. I love your ideas and I have used these methods like shadowing, diary writing, reading original English books, but I didn't stick to it for a long time. So I am kind of stuck in the upper intermediate level.

Awesome tips, hopefully you'll help me to improve my English skills.

Hi Radmila. It is nice to meet you! thanks for sharing all these tips. I followed you from Panama!

El 90% de las profesoras de inglés en RU-vid son hermosas, creo que ese es el truco para que los que estudiamos inglés entremos a ver los videos.

Damn! I love hearing Russian-speaking English with their accent. You`re almost an American speaker ;)

Офигеть, доже не догадался, что ты от сюда. Классная харизма, а подачи инфы тоже не че так. В общем, ты ооочень красивая!!! ;)

Thank you so much Miss Radmila . Your awesome Thank you again . Good morning.

Finally I've found useful tips! I was so frustrated about my English recently. Thank you do much!

best english practice tip: try to rap "rap god" while reading the lyrics and hearing the beat.

Thanks for your tips, they’re really useful. I’ve already done some of them, but I’ll try to read more and keep a diary. (:

Thank you for your these tips ! translating words : search for the meaning of them in english and try to understand them by looking at different sentences !

She is pleasant to watch. She is not as annoying as Marina Mogilko.))

I loved this video. You won a new subscribe hahaha but let me ask: why did you stop to make new videos? New follower from Brazil 🇧🇷 by the way, I love Russian. My third favorite language

Спасибо за советы, Радмила. У тебя очень хороший акцент! Едва заметно, что английский - это не родной язык. Но точно не бросается в глаза русский акцент )

Thanks to this method I can understand 90% of what they say even without subtitles

I don't know how I got here, but your advice is interesting, thanks.

Молодец какая, даже не скажешь, что английский не родной )

Це відчуття коли ти думала що ця дівчина американка,а вона каже що з України! ШОК ! Я теж так хочу

Regarding improving vocabulary and writing, Grammarly is a great resource.

Before watching this video I already have my notebook, I wrote all I could from my books and like to investigate too, try to speak a lot with people and myself too, obviously need always someone that is correcting any mistakes you may have. I am new but now I love this channel, her English is incredible

You're really good at English. You're astonishing.I wrote diary too and it really helped me to structure sentences, think in English .

Really don't know anymore if I'm watching this channel because the learning stuff ...o because I'm in love !😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

So good all the tips you show us, I really believe it will help all the students to achieve the advanced level in English. But at least in my case the most dificult tip for following is to communicate with English speakers because its difficult to find one

Btw, what popped up in my mind which I will be getting used to remember is her smile and how she was confidently talking ♥️ I appreciate you 🤗

I'm more into British accent but your accent is about to change my mind 🤍

Your english is unbelivebly good

Awesome Beautiful teacher😁 Her style of teaching goes smoothly with her tenderness

I am a first subscriber you can't know how much I enjoyed this video, and I think you put really benefits videos, which may help me to reach advance level , and besides I have been talking to many girls from Ukraine , but I won't going to lie they are absolutely amazing ,they make me love the country .

I'm doin fine! I'm doin fine my friend!

SUCH A BRILLIANT CONTENT!!!有史以來最有用幫學外文影片沒有之一!!!

very useful tips which help me a lot.

Hi there, I'm polish and have to say,I'm so impressed with Ur accent. You sound very smart and very pretty too. Someone might think that you from U.S honest to God you're good. Brilliant stuff. X.

First time I watched your lesson today and I liked

Holly molly! When you said you are from Ukraine I didn't believe at first. You don't even have Russian accent, and your pronunciation is so clear and sounds like native English. For 2 years of studying I've met only one person with the same pronunciation. I believe my speech will be as good and clear as yours. thanks for advice and приветик с Украины! :)

Nice to know, thanks a lot for shearing :3

I have been living in Australia for 5 years but my English is still not good. I will follow your methods for a year and see how it goes.

I'm also using the same tips and i watched the whole video just for getting more words to my vocabulary and then i speak English without taking a lot of time of thinking before and i think it's really help if u keep listening to people talkin in english ,with time u would speak faster