4. Switching to make all notes in a planner in English.

This is one of those little things that make a big difference in the end. If you stop using your native language when planning your daily tasks and making notes to remind yourself of things to do, you’ll be another step closer to think in English and achieve complete English fluency in long term.

There’s quite a lot going on in every person’s life and we all make some sort of notes. Post-it notes on the edge of a PC monitor at work; notes on the fridge at home to remind something your Mum, notes in your daily planner when making a Christmas gifts.

You see – if you do it all in English, eventually you’ll be forced to find any relevant term and expression that you might not know yet and it’s going to make you into a really effective English user down the line.

Probably it is the conventional wisdom to use your native language as medium through which you learn and improve English.

It’s a hundred times more efficient and natural, however, to switch to English completely and do away with using your mother’s tongue to facilitate a complete English immersion and much faster improvement in terms of English fluency!

5. Enjoying your hobbies through the English language.

We all have some sort of a hobby – be it playing poker, fitness, model ship building or some obscure hobby niche I can’t even think of!

Regardless of your specific area of interests, in this day and age you simply have no excuses not to use English websites, blogs or magazines to enjoy your hobby!

Doing WHAT YOU LIKE through English is probably the best way to immerse yourself into the English language because you’ll develop a strong emotional link between your activities and relevant English terms, expressions and phrases.

If you’re big into the fitness and nutrition field, for instance, stop looking up relevant information in your native language online. Start using English websites or buy specialty literature and you’ll develop great relevant English vocabulary in a couple months, no joking!

I was big into wellbeing and meditation a while ago – and I bought a good few books about meditation, yoga, Pilates and such. Initially I had to learn dozens of new words and expressions and it was a little bit difficult to enjoy reading it because there was so much to learn. In a few weeks, however, I had developed a fairly good understanding of terms such as ‘manifestation’, ‘affirmations’, ‘adopt a posture’ and similar so I could fully enjoy my hobby using the English language.

You also have to look beyond your immediate life routine and see the benefit of becoming comfortable using English in a specific area of life as a potential career opportunity in the future.

What if your today’s hobby becomes your future job? What if your highly developed specialty English vocabulary comes in handy when going for a job interview that lands you a position you’ve always dreamt of?

1.2. Four ways of active English immersion for foreign English speakers

So here’s the countdown of 4 most effective ways of active English immersion – if you combine them all you can essentially create your own unique English speaking environment!