Unfortunately, it's need to admit that for success in learning English you should read a lot. No, really, a lot.

Blogs, forums, different articles and so on - it's all, of course, good and necessary... But not quite enough.

You should read books. Many, many, many books. Dozens of them. Regularly. Read over and over again for years. And yes, besides of getting a real progress in learning English, with every book you've read, you will become a more educated person as well. It cannot but agree that all well-educated people read a lot. And to know foreign language perfectly means to be well-educated too, isn't it?

Fortunately, reading books is not so hard as it can seem at the first glance. Furthermore, as for me - it much easier than reading bunch of articles. Maybe it's so because there is one main idea, one author style, one vocabulary and so on for the whole book.

And it's also important to read two types of books. The fist one - in which you're interested. It can be related to your work or hobby, or you can just want to read it 'cause somebody recommended it to you. And the second one is classic literature. It can be not necessary Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas or Arthur Conan Doyle, but something like Jerome David Salinger as well. To the point - one of the easiest author for learning English readers is Agatha Cristy.

Be sure - reading books is not tiresome or time-wasted business at all, but on the contrary it can be much fun and enjoyable rather than watching tv-shows.