The quickest way for me to improve is to copy English articles. Oh, don't disagree. In high school, after serious implementation of this method one months later, my English immediately on a step, increased by about 20 points, and never slipped oh. At the university level 46 pass mostly also rely on the basic skills at that time. Here's how to do that:
1. English articles to find themselves, the text is OK, but do not find too obscure, it will affect the efficiency of the best is slightly higher than their current level of the article.
2. The handwriting should be neat and tidy. The best use of English exercise books to copy, a stroke, so that not only their own look very fulfilling, but also improve their pen work. It may be slow at first, but it will increase speed when you get used to it.
3. Do not read a word when copying, but to read a sentence and then to copy. Over the longer, your understanding of the expression of English will certainly be higher, because you have already recorded a lot of sentences unconsciously. And the longer the article is composed of sentences, hehe, that is to say you at this time the level of reading is not the same.
4. As to how many words to copy every day, you can decide for yourself. But too little to have no effect, I was 1000 words a day to 1500 words, the effect is good. But must be serious, not sloppy.
5. When copying the best not to look in the dictionary, there may be a lot of new words, but you have to infer the meaning of the word according to the context, it is impossible to look at the translation (by the way, I was mostly copied Chinese translation of the article). If you keep reading, it will affect the speed, and worse, you have broken the sentence into a word, will affect the level of reading improvement.