Where to learn English

For me, it meant living in Mexico. For you, it means England. Being immersed in a culture where English is the predominant means of communication is, in all honesty, the only reasonable way of actually learning English. Anything less is not really learning English—it’s settling for second best. It’s studying on a treadmill—investing countless hours and insufferable effort into your goal of learning how to speak English, but not actually getting anywhere. And after all that investment, all you have to show for it is a bunch of textbook knowledge—but you still don’t really know how to speak English.

You can study books till you’re blue in the face (there’s a saying for your diary!)—that’s not really learning English. You can practice pronunciation for years with the best software on the planet—that’s not really learning English. There’s just something about being there for yourself—that constant relentless pounding of glib and effortless English flowing into your brain—that all the software in the world just simply cannot teach you.