Ok, so, do you want to learn English for yourself? You haven't time for taking classes, but you want to study like self-taught? Alright, these are my tips for you: I hope this can be useful. I have already followed these rules for a year and I feel that my understanding of the language has improved 1 first step: Check your level. You need to know your current level in order to take the accurate exercises for you. Too much difficult you will not understand, too much easier, you will not learn. So take a test: You can find many of this test on the net. https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/content There you have 25 questions and in the end it shows your level. 2) The second point is to install our best friend tool for someone like you or me that are trying to learn a language: Anki flashcards: https://apps.ankiweb.net/ What is the point with this tool? I will put another question: What is the main point for learning a language? In my opinion the main point is to know the words, the more you know the words, the more you can understand when people are talking and more you can communicate efficiently. Do you believe in me? I will put an example: my daughter is 3 years, she never went to school, she doesn't know the words, even she doesn't know the letters, she doesn't know any grammar rule, but she can understand without abstract topics, and she can talk and express herself clearly and accurately, more than I can do in English after years of study. And why? Because she knows words, and she learns words all the time every day. And she asks for every word she doesn't know. But: How we can learn new words every day? Flashcards helps us to memorize and learn new words. That's the trick. How does it work? This is like a game: you will see a card with a word and you need to think if you know that word. Thereafter some options appear on the screen and we have to answer: I don't know this word. I know this, but this is hard for me to remember. I know this word. I know this word and is easy for me. What happens next? Anki collect your answers, analyze the information. If I say I don't this word, so Anki will show this card in a short time, maybe in the next few minutes. If I said I know this word, but is hard, maybe you can see the card in the next day. If I said I know this word, Anki will show this after some days. And finally, if I said I know this word and is easy Anki will show this word after many days or weeks. The point is that you don't lose your time in study words that you already know and focus on the words that you have to work. The whose underlying idea is spaced repetition, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition learning theory that In Anki you have cards, the cards are collected in decks. Also cards can have a tag, so we can organize and study our collection with a different approach. We start creating a deck and adding cards. In the front of the card, we write the word in English. On the back side, we write the meaning Spanish. We can use this dictionary in order to know the meaning of words. https://www.wordreference.com One magical feature that has Anki flashcards is that you can add a plugin that reproduce the sound of a word or a phrase. So instead of looking the word you can listen to the sound of it. https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/427598962 May be you need to add "mplayer" package in your operating system https://itsfoss.com/mplayer/ 3) Start to listen some listenings, some that have the text and if it possible explanations. https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-podcasts http://www.wordheard.org/sort/ The last one has as many exercises that you can't finish in your life. 4) Connected Speech: when you feel comfortable with the other listenings you can see these lessons (first time I saw this I thought if Shakespeare must be rolling in his grave) Connected speech (7 videos) Connected Speech & Linking | American English Pronunciation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAHUTKm_1n0&list=PLytLOCUcYQj_ODAC4ixpqCc5qhwzSEwph Transforming verbs (all) Transforming Verbs in Everyday Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdRCfsr8uDE&list=PLytLOCUcYQj9VQ2nnYtCIkDeypGDkt4T_ The 4 Secrets to Speaking Quickly & Fluently - CONNECTED SPEECH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZTV0Gwyo_Q 5) You can continue with these videos from real conversations. With very good explanations. https://www.youtube.com/user/RealLifeEnglishBH/videos 6) The most beautiful of all for me is speaking English in real time with other people native speakers, but not only that, also from other countries and with other accents www.conversationexchange.com https://www.language-exchanges.org https://www.openlanguageexchange.com https://www.italki.com/home