I'm pretty sure that most of people in this thread start learning English in the same way with grammar books. If you are in highschool, you probably have been familiar with English books for roughly 7 years. It is going to be around 10 years if you are in college by now. If those books did not work out in the past then why do you believe It will now ?
From my perspective, it's better to learn English from your hobbies. The reason is simple, you will not get bored which your hobbies easily. Studying from books is more suitable if you want to achieve a certain goal in a short amount of time. In the long run, I don't think it's a good idea.
// I feel like my writting skill is facking rusty after almost 2 months without any practice
The reason why I suggested him to start with a book is that I believe that he has gained some knowledge through his reading, but he cannot use it properly. His inactive knowledge is like small particles of the machine, and he gets to know more about the particles he has on hand before he is able to categorize and arrange them logically, then master them as a machine as a whole.
That’s for this case only, and if I meet someone with no idea about English or English grammar, I will not advise the same because I have never been in a similar case to them.
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I heard a lot about learning through hobbies, but it is a real challenge to me as I do not have any special interest on anything :chaymau: Really admire those who work this way :sosad:
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I have been learning English for almost 20 years. In the beginning, I learnt English at a local foreign center in a small province to the South of HCMC. Back to 2001, it only cost my parents 40-60k for a 3-month course, and 5k (or 10k, perhaps) for my textbook

I was totally dump for the first 3 years

then I took a gap year from English and resumed in secondary highschool. Strange as it seems, upon my return, my English started to improve dramtically for no specific reason
The only reason I can come up with is that I had an accummulation phase in my primary school, when I grew slowly as one of the worst students in my English class. Then, during the year I was away from English, what I had learnt slowly found their place in my mind, and when I resumed from a different approach (FYI, back to my time, we should start learning English in Grade 6, so I began to learn from ABC again), they got re-arranged in a more logical way that I could make noticeable improvement. That was how the tipping point approached my English skills
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I am now quite satisfied with my English, honestly. I can communicate confidently with any foreigners at work, either face-to-face or via phone call or conference call, and I almost eliminate my Vietnamese sounds when I speak English, except for the intonation and some difficult words (I used to face a huge problem with the word “result” and everyone had no idea why I could not pronounce it

). One of my favorite ways of practice is to talk to myself whenever I am alone, haha
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Urrgggggg, how frustrating, I wrote a long post on my phone and accidentally swiped back to cause it disappear :brick:
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