Take holidays abroad.
This is not only a good opportunity to speak English in situations where you really have to make yourself understood in order to live, but it is also a good motivator to study English seriously in the weeks and months before your trip. If possible, also try to use English even when you [...]

Occasionally talk to or e-mail your friends in English.
Many people find this a bit false or embarrassing, but if you think of it as a study club and set a particular time and/ or place, it is no different from studying maths together.

Set goals.
Deciding how many hours you want to study, how many words you want to learn or what score you want to get in a test are all good ways of making sure you do extra study.

beat about the bush = ชักแม่น้ำทั้งห้า, พูดวกวนไม่เข้าประเด็น = talk around the issue without getting to the point.
ตัวอย่าง
You don’t have to beat about the bush. You want to borrow my car, don’t you?
ไม่ต้องพูดวกวน แก่จะยืมรถฉันใช่มั้ย

Record your own voice.
For people who don’t have much or any correction of pronunciation from a teacher, recording yourself and listening back makes it easier to hear whether you are really making the English sounds that you are trying to or not.

Use an English-English dictionary.
Trying to use a bilingual dictionary less and switching to a monolingual one can help you to stop translating in you head when you are speaking or listening, and other useful English vocabulary can come up while you are using the dictionary.

Find a foreign boyfriend or girlfriend.
No tips on how to do this here, but everyone agrees that getting or even just looking for a date in English can be a great motivator to improve your language skills.

Online chat.
The closest thing to speaking for people who don’t have the chance to speak English is online chat, as you have to think and respond quickly, and the language is short and informal just like speech.

Read English children’s books.
This is very similar to watching English children’s movies, but with the added advantage of there being more illustrations than adult books, which both helps you to understand the story and makes the page brighter and more motivating to read.

Say or think what you are doing in English as you do your daily tasks.
As you are doing your chores, try creating sentences describing what you are doing, e.g. ‘I am unscrewing the ketchup bottle cap’. This gets you used to thinking in English without translating, and can be a good way of seeing what [...]