How do I learn English?

Somewhere I heard that you can’t learn well other languages if you don’t know pretty well your native language first. I think this is true, because how will you learn how to express yourself in a good way in other language if you don’t even know how to do it in your own? I even think that’s why for some people is so hard to learn new languages and for others is so easy. So to try to improve my English I also try to improve my Spanish first.

I also like when I have the opportunity to talk English with people that actually have it as their native language, I think that’s the best way to learn how to express yourself and know where your lack of abilities are. Even when I’m too shy with people I don’t know and even more if we’re talking in a language that I’m still learning, after a while I can have enough confidence to just talk without thinking word by word what I have to say and those are the times when I think I speak the best.

Having this thought at mind, I like to train myself in the language but I don’t usually get the chance to find someone or somewhere with people that talks perfect English, so I train my ear listening songs, movies, series and podcasts in English without subtitles and it helps me to get used to expressions and intonations.

But the best help I could get is in class; if I have doubts I can directly ask them and share with my classmates to improve together. Also the blogs we do on Fridays had been helping me to learn grammatical and orthographic rules and how to express myself even better. But more than that, the classes at the University are so similar to the ones I had at high school. We even used the books from the same editorial!