 This is Dr. Nancy. I teach negotiation and influence to help engineers and International professionals to get control of your life and the career. I've been in the US for 10 years. I give presentations like once per month in conferences and different kind of workshops and People ask me this question all the time. Why your English is so good? And all is speaking my English is not better than anybody from other non-English speaking country. What I believe what I did differently is that I was sincere about investing in myself So today I'm going to share with you the strategies that helps me to improve my English. First of all I want to remove the conception of oh you have language talent. Here is the thing Something about me. I came to the United States with $800 in my pocket I was here to study engineering and I became the youngest engineering PhD I was always the best in my class about those like technology stuff I was the worst in my English skills. I should I share with you my GRE score? Solo. Basically my GRE was solo. I'm gonna share with you the five things It's going to make a difference in my life. And first of all Also the most critical part shamelessly ask your American co-worker to correct your English When you engage with your American co-workers, why they would like to help you? You need to be a fun person. For example Okay, now guys follow me. We're doing the Chinese training right now. We're learning four words Now follow me. Beautiful meal Mei Rui Mei Mei Rui Beautiful girl Mei Ngyu Mei Ngyu Mei Ngyu Beautiful fish Mei Rui Mei Rui Mei Rui Mei Rui Awesome Finally beautiful cow Mei Ngyu Mei Ngyu Mei Ngyu So in the future we walk in the road in China Make sure we call any beautiful girl. Do not super any other words by accent How to say beautiful girl in Chinese Mei Ngyu No those beautiful cow From interaction they start to understand our culture and start to help each other out. So most of time They don't really want to learn Chinese But after they understand where you come from, they start to have sympathy start to trust you start to help you out So those are the fundamental of relationship building how to influence others I recommend everybody learning those skillset as well so that you can make more people Help you out and help you to improve And second thing I did was I invest time and money to study a course called advanced English pronunciation So it's a systematic training to teach you how to say ah or in American way And through there I think it was like two months training. I was able to Learn what's the right way the best way of course everybody Learn how to pronounce those basic words back in China back in home country But the person who taught you are not English speaker in general So recommend learning it from an English speaker in the u.s. Taking a class And I already collected a list of classes Which I believe could be very helpful the similar classes I've taken before So you should do your own or do diligence. I will link those links down below. Feel free to Comment down below. Let me see what other courses you discover and get my opinion as well And third is that I also had private tutoring Besides taking group classes I would just hire or find some ways to get somebody to do one-on-one training with me Always like bring in the writing copies To somebody who's an English speaker and have him or her to watch me crack me over there on the spot so the way you see it is like When you learn English it's similar to learning those math problems think about when we learn those math problems back in China You take group training with lots of people and you also do homework And in addition you also start to hire private tutor if you have extra money you want to do more So same thing as English. That's why I encourage everybody to spend some time and money to invest in group classes And also individual one-on-one training as well. That's the best way to get a maximum outcome number four I would go to American bars I'm serious. I was just there to hand out with my American classmate American co-workers Where do Americans go? They go to bars and they start to pick up You just listen you learn and bar What's because so loud and people a little bit drunk tipsy You can barely hear anything But if you're able to capture and help have a conversation in a bar setting, you're a golden And number five is the app So the app is something helps you to do homework Which I recommend is something called English central I believe it's free version to get access to lots of videos And in addition if you want to do advanced features, it's 15 dollars per month This is not a sponsored video. This is the app. I personally use I find it really really useful So on this app, you're able to do assessment of your English level And they give you a one minute two minutes video have you to follow it Then you gradually improve your English. So practice is equal to the homework So find your own app as well. Feel free to link any other apps you have using in the comment down below And I can give you my opinion of those apps. See those are right app for you or not The most important message you want to deliver to everybody is that it is important to invest in yourself This is the only investment You will have guaranteed return if you invest in yourself And in addition if you believe that English is an important skill set to improve to master you better spend time and money I know lots of people spend money on buying an LV bag or whatever That's part of your life if you believe that career advancement or improving certain type of soft skills important It's not just sitting home and practice once per day anything you need to see any significant improvement You need to spend the time and dedication tell yourself. My goal is improve this I'm going to get all kind of resources to help me out either to be group training Could be one-on-one training any kind of training and you got to do it again and again If you want to improve your English start to do the five things I tell you today Believe me, it will give you a best return. Hi, this is dr. Nancy If you like videos like this, please consider giving me a Sum up and leave a comment down below Because I really appreciate that you give me feedback It's going to be my encouragement to continue making more videos like this. Thank you very much. Happy new year. See you soon. Bye