If you're reading this, then I can assume that you're not a kid and your English level is at least higher than pre-beginner. And, consequently, you're not fond of elementary studying materials and books just for kids. But I assure you that kind of kids' stuff can be rather interesting, enjoyable and helpful for you too.

What I mean by kids' stuff is two kinds of materials.

The first one is different "Learning English for kids" courses and other things, such as educational books, different tests, video and podcastings, games (especially online flash games). It can be seems as a rather senseless pastime, but believe me, it isn't. Why? It's easy. Easy for kids, so, of course, it's easy for you. And when it's easy, it's more enjoyable and less tiresome.

From my experience, rewatching something is a pretty useful thing for learning English.

It's so because of two main reasons.

First of all, when you watch some movie, tv-series or something like that, you don't even try to understand all speech, you're just watching it. If you understand more than, say, 60-70 percent of all talking, you simply enjoy watching movie and do not strain yourself to understand each and every word. But when you rewatching movie you try to watch it more attentively, 'cause you already know the plot and now try to follow all details which you didn't notice for the first time. So you try to understand more words, truly meaning of the words depending on the context and situations, and so on.

This is a very tiresome to find out meaning of each unfamiliar word in a dictionary. Its draw your attentions away from reading and, furthermore, takes too much time.

Fortunately, there is a great solution: Google Translate service and several tools based on its functionality.

I think you're familiar with Google Translate. So, it's time to use features to translation on-the-fly.

It's no secret that all languages consists of numerous sentence patterns, and English is not exception.

We all use patterns but never think about it 'cause it occurs rather automatically. It's work for our native language as we read, listen, speak, write and think on this language from childhood. And it doesn't work for foreign language because it's foreign. We must live in and by language to start using it correctly and automatically.