If there is no opportunity to focus on 1 hour only for English, you need to break this 1 hour into 10-minute chunks throughout the day. Try this learning scheme.

The most effective method is immersion in the language through practice. Take the scheme from this article and just study according to it – no matter what your level is.

When learning English for IT, it is worth concentrating on technical terminology and specific English for work. This will ensure your ability to understand documentation, participate in meetings, and perform tasks at an international level. General conversational phrases should be studied in parallel to be able to speak in an interview. Business English is also important, especially for communicating with clients and colleagues in the context of projects.

It is possible to memorize 10 words and 10 phrases per day if you use them in context. The best approach is to learn with examples, repeat throughout the day, and apply immediately.

At the same time, and here’s why. Without English, it’s hard to read documentation, pass interviews, and work in a team. If you learn one thing first, the other will start to “sag” – without practice, knowledge is quickly forgotten.

You’re fine – it’s the case with everyone. Don’t put pressure on yourself. It’s realistic to memorize 8 words and phrases with them in context per day, if you study for 1 hour. And there is the so-called forgetting curve.

It takes approximately 250 hours of active study to master one level of language (for example, from A1 to A2) — this is a statistic that has been verified by different scientists 1000 times. If you set a goal, this is not so much.

A completely achievable goal in half a year, if you return to the words correctly. Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist, derived a forgetting curve — a graph showing how quickly we lose information without repetition. I will tell you about the study itself in another video, but now I will only give the conclusions themselves:

To remember information once and for all, it is important to repeat and recall words, namely, “get” words from memory, and not peek into the dictionary at certain intervals.

To memorize for a longer period, you can use the following scheme:

• 🔁 1 repetition – immediately after studying
• 🔁 2 repetition – after 20-30 minutes
• 🔁 3 repetition – after 1 day
• 🔁 4 repetition – after 2 weeks
• 🔁 5 repetition – after 2 months

You can outsmart your own memory and not forget information only with a systematic approach. You need to set aside time to review the material you have studied, or better yet, keep a diary. In the first column, you can write down everything you need to learn: for example, certain sets of flash cards. And you draw up columns by the dates of repetition: repeat in 1 day, in two weeks, in 2 months. And at the same time, you set a time in your phone in Google Calendar with a reminder: play the set and attach a link to the set of flash cards. And put a plus in your diary when you do it.

The minimum is Pre-Intermediate. You still won’t be allowed to see the customer without technical expertise, but you will already be able to read the documentation and write comments on the code.

Answer: Learn different phrasal verbs in one sitting. Not according to the GET out, in, on, scheme, but according to context. Learn by semantic topics. Build associations and contexts:

In order to understand technical documentation, you need to know:

1. 1. About 300 technical terms, which you still gradually master in the process of work.
   2. Basic grammar: especially the passive voice in the Present and Past Simple.