In this article, we have collected the best methods for learning English for beginners and also selected the best Promova app to help you do it. 

In order to speak English even at a basic level, learn the most popular words and expressions, which will be enough for everyday communication. As a rule, these are the nouns, adjectives, pronouns and verbs you cannot do without when speaking. Make up sentences with them over and over again and master the necessary grammatical constructions to use them competently. Then you will be able to quickly start conversations on the most basic topics. 

Start with the most common vocabulary

In order to speak English even at a basic level, learn the most popular words and expressions, which will be enough for everyday communication. As a rule, these are the nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs you can’t do without when speaking. Make up sentences with them over and over again and master the necessary grammatical constructions to use them competently. After that, you will be able to quickly start conversations on the most basic topics.

Repeat the words regularly

If you learn a long list of unfamiliar foreign words in one day, after a month you won’t remember even a third of them. German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus came to this conclusion back in 1885, when he experimented with lists of meaningless syllables. 

So how do you memorize vocabulary quickly and permanently? Your best helper is memorization word cards. The perfect card contains a word with a picture illustration on one side, a transcription, translation and examples of use on the other.  That’s what they look like in the Skyeng app, for example. There are also the applications Anki and Supermemo, where you can create cards according to your taste and learn not only the vocabulary, but also grammar and pronunciation rules. 

What is the effectiveness of the card method? At its core is a system of interval repetition (Spaced Repetition System). It works very simply: 

• Every day the app tests your knowledge of card material. First it shows you a word, for example dog, and asks you for the translation. 
• If you answer correctly, the card is moved to the end of the list. At the same time the time interval after which you will see it again increases.  Make a mistake – the word will soon pop up in front of you again. 
• The better you memorize a word, the less often a card with it will appear in the vocabulary list for repetition. But it won’t disappear at all: the SRS system works in the way that it will show you the word you memorized so often that you won’t forget it after a while.
• In this way, the material will be stored in your memory quickly and will stay there much longer than if you resorted to traditional rote memorization.

Use stickers

Another proven way to pump up your English vocabulary: you stick stickers with words on the objects they stand for. The easiest way to do this is at home. For example: you can choose a kitchen as an object and decorate the table with a sticker “table”, put “cupboard” on the kitchen cabinet, and stick “dishwasher” to the dishwasher. There are almost no limits: You decide which theme you want to focus on.