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If you want to become a fluent English speaker, maybe you should take some advice. There are four basic (基础的) skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills, you should first learn the skills of reading and listening.

Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the strange words and so on. There is no need for you to care too much about grammar or try to understand all the strange words you come across. It’s enough if you can recognize (识别) the words when you see them next time. It would be better to prepare a notebook for yourself so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.

As for listening, there are two choices. Besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only care about your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs (输入) in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening. For listening, you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy to understand. Or if you are good at listening, you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and you’d better take some notes.

If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and reading will improve quickly, and you can be a fluent English speaker one day.