Non-native speakers living in English-speaking countries, how do you keep improving you listening/speaking skills?
I have been living for 8 years in an English-speaking country, I work and live fully in English but it feels like my speaking/listening skills have stagnated and I'm not improving anymore. Even if I get 98% of a conversation, sometimes that 2% contain important details that I miss and it's quite annoying.
So, how did you keep improving?
As a potential alternative, maybe try picking up some kind of ham radio communicating as a hobby and work through trying to communicate with garbled long-range voices that are hard to easily understand.
If it’s the meaning part, then you can only improve with more social interactions as that’s the only place where people really talk :)
I watch "Rachel's English" on youtube and was able to learn a ton of stuff that was never taught me anywhere else. There's a ton of stuff that I thought I knew until I found her videos.
- Conversations are the best way to improve your english level. They force your brain to look up information and add new information. Also, you are forced to use what you know. There are a lot of english learners that can pass top level exams but they can't speak the language. It's very important that you speak it to improve your level.