Hello World, welcome into our special episode.

The hot topic today is how to maintain your level of English in a non-English-speaking environment.

Rory, first of all, what do we mean by maintain your level of English?

Well, there are different levels of English proficiency, and it's like any skill.

If you don't practice, then you lose your ability to use it as proficiently as you would normally.

So, for example, imagine that you learn how to, oh, what's the skill that you could learn how to do?

Oh, imagine that you learn martial arts, for example,

and you progress in martial arts

because you're constantly practicing and constantly repeating the skill.

But then you don't practice for 10 years,

and then you forget how to do it.

It's the same thing with language level.

You still know the basic elements,

but you're not quite as proficient as you

used to be. So this is a problem because obviously people need to maintain their level of English

in order to use it effectively in the world when they need it. Yeah, we need to feed our English,

improve our English, invest in our English all the time. And if you live

in a non-English speaking environment, for example, like me, I live in Russia, I started learning

English, but many people didn't speak English around me, right? So I had Russian all over me, right?

But I was learning English.

The same happens pretty much to many people around the world.

So what should you do to improve, to maintain your English,

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