Title: our SYNTAX patterns
Course: Learning to learn

1 Discover new language. Learn to identify & select useful items of new language from the texts you read or the the scripts you study. The criterion must be USEFULNESS as opposed to difficulty. Sometimes there are things that you understand and sound 'very English' but for some reason you never get to use them. Your ability to identify & select will improve as you try. Practice makes perfect.

2 Learn it. Research the new items; use any sources of information (also people: your mates, native speakers, etc.) The objective is to find out as much as possible about the new language, so that you will be able to use it with confidence. Of course, that includes the PRONUNCIATION.

3 Get to use it! Build a new language bank where you collect and organize the new items you are learning and refer to it whenever you are preparing some production: written texts or spoken tasks. Try to find opportunities to incorporate those new items to your English --but avoid 'forcing' them into your discourse artificially; with time you will develop the necessary balance. Practice makes perfect.