What are you doing here? The class has finished, you can go home.

Hello teacher, yeah I know but I stayed because I need your help. Please do you remember you told me I can learn English by myself? Well, I am doing that now but I feel I need something more maybe it's my studying plan or my study routine. Can you help me with that please? I really want to speak English very well, can you?

Oh of course, I will help you. I will tell you what the best study routine is. Let's see, a good English study plan will help you stay on track and achieve your goals. You learn how to create a personalized English study plan that you can adapt as you become more and more advanced.

All right, how do we start? Ask yourself these questions first: Why do I want to learn English? What are my goals and reasons? Is it for work? Is it for a study? Do you wish to travel the world or speak with friends easily or to speak confidently with your teacher at the school?

Write a list of the positive things you want to happen if you improve your English. Order them from the most to least important. Those at the top of your list are the main reasons you want to learn English. This process helps you see your goals clearly. Your goals will determine how you organize your study plan. They'll determine what you learn and how you learn it.

Other questions: How do I learn best? What's my learning style? Do you enjoy learning by having conversations? Do you learn better when you write things down or look at the pictures? Are you a morning person or do you learn better in the evenings? The answers to these questions will help you build your study plan around the method and a schedule that helps you learn fastest.

How much time do I have? Very important question. Setting too much time in your week to study can make you feel like you'll never complete it. Not setting time to study at all will prevent you from making real progress. Be realistic. Look at your week and count how much time you're likely to have for a study. If you're unsure, spend the week living life normally and write down times you could be studying as they happen. You may find you have an hour before dinner each night, an hour on the bus ride to work, or half a day on the weekends. Add all this up and come to a weekly total.

What learning resources do I have or could I get? Do you have a computer, a smartphone, or English textbook? Do you live or work near a library? Do you have any computer programs or apps that help you learn English? If not, do you know where to get them from? How much money are you willing to pay for learning resources? This is a great way to find learning tools you may have forgotten about. And that thing about money, it's very important. For example, I said I would have spent $30 a month to learn English. Without money, one month I could buy a book, the next month I could buy an online course, next I could hire an online teacher to practice my English. It is important. Think about how you'd like to use these resources in your study plan.

Do I need others to help me? Who? How will I get their help? Teachers? Friends? Strangers? I mean, do you learn better by yourself or would you prefer to learn with other English students? Are there any friends or teachers you could ask for help? People are amazing resources. Think about contacting other learners for study ideas, sharing achievements with friends, or seeking guidance from teachers. Having a network of people will help you stick to your English study plan.

Now it's time to build the outline for your study plan. Use the answers to your questions to create the outline for your English study plan. How? Well, simply follow these steps:

Select your Primary Learning goal. My goal is to give English presentations at work with confidence. That's an example.

Break your goal into smaller steps. For example, memorize vocabulary words related to my work, develop formal writing skills, become confident speaking in front of large groups.

Set a timeline and draw your study plan outline. Draw a visual study plan for your week. This is as simple as folding a piece of paper to create eight columns. Now write a name of each day across the tops of seven columns. Leave one column blank for writing notes.

Start filling in your study plan. Think about the number of hours you calculated for a study. Begin adding time for a study into the spare spaces on your timeline.

Take the time to move activities around. If you focus better in the morning, move your morning walk to the evening and do an hour of study instead. Move activities to make the study sessions longer or shorter.

Once a week, you should evaluate your progress. You can use an online test for that. There are many of them on the internet nowadays.

Organize the content into your study plan. Pick the strategies and resources that get you to your goal. This is where you choose the learning methods and styles you'll use throughout your study plan.

Of course, there are many strategies and methods to learn English by yourself. A lot of them. If you want a video about the strategies and methods to learn English, I can make a video about that.

Yes please, that way I could complete my study routine. It is really good.

Excellent! What about you guys? Would you like to watch a video with that topic? Yeah, let us know guys. Together we will improve our English. I am sure.