Non-native English speakers of dev.to how do you keep your English skills sharp!

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I have seen that dev.to has a pretty big global community, so I would like to ask all the non-native English speakers in here, how do you maintain your English skills and what do you do to improve it?.

In my case, I'm using blogging in dev.to as a tool to improve mainly my writing skills, one of the things I use and highly recommend to anyone is Grammarly!, they have a really nice chrome extension to check your grammar.

Comments

[Pachi 🥑]

I read a lot in English. A bit of everything really, from articles in tech, to romance books.
I also write at least one post a week, in English.
Watch movies/shows in English. Never dubbed, sometimes I use subtitle if they talk to low or too fast.

[FidelVe]

I'm on that at least one post a week bandwagon also, I think is a great way to keep learning and not letting my English rust.

[Lulu]

I subscribed Youtube channel named Daily English Conversation.
And is there any way to speaking fluently?🤒

[Efrat]

I answer questions on stackoverflow

[Zorex Salvo]

I am thinking internally in English.

[Ibrahim Imran]

Uhhhh this is gonna be awkward but I've kinda forgotten my own language and now only remember English.........

[Yury]

reading and writing is easy to practice. there's so many articles and books in english that you'll never run out of something to read. speaking and listening can be hard to keep sharp though. even if 95% of my work emails are in english, speaking doesn't come up as often. and somehow youtube videos and playing games in english didn't prepare me to listening to real people talking in real life. most of my thoughts during a short trip to ireland were "maybe i should learn a sign language and lip reading and pretend to be deaf because i don't understand people unless they are speaking directly to me anyway"

[SaraRF22]

I guess for us non-native speakers watching movies, listening to songs , reading books , and some conversation courses , also reading programming blogs especially for dev terms. But I think you need to learn express your thoughts in English by writing and speaking to improve your language skills.

[Zohar Peled]

I read and write a lot in English - I'm an active member here in Dev.To and in Stackoverflow, I write almost all my work-related emails in English, I maintain a professional blog in English (though I don't post there as much as I would like to) - so I get to practice reading and writing English a lot. I've been doing that for quite some time now so me English skills are pretty good.

[Vijay Koushik, S. 👨🏽‍💻]

I read English newspapers. They help me how to place the content in a way it's clear for the reader to understand.

[Vlad Anghel]

I think reading works best for me, especially fiction. Sometimes after I read, I realize I use words in my speech that I had no idea I know.

[Bertil Muth]

I watch shows in English, often with subtitles. I read books and articles, and write articles. I used to look up almost every word I didn’t know when I was younger, but I am getting a bit lazy about that :-) Teaching Training courses and talking with native speakers help as well.