In his book "1000 Hours", Li Xiaolai provides the following advice for learning English:
Every day, record interesting events or thoughts from your life in your own words, then use AI translation tools to translate them into idiomatic English.
For unfamiliar words, look up their meanings and pronunciations, and use TTS tools like 11Labs to generate audio.
Then, practice reading along with the audio in segments, similar to practicing a guitar piece by breaking it down into smaller sections.
When reading along, it's best to wear one earphone so you can clearly hear both the TTS pronunciation and your own.
Next, practice reading the entire passage. After a few read-throughs, record yourself so you can compare and identify areas where you need to improve.
The final step is memorization.
Additionally, review is crucial. For example, review the content you learned yesterday every day, and conduct periodic reviews every week or month.
It's recommended to invest 3 hours per day. Before finishing, do a retrospective and record the difficulties you encountered, unresolved problems, methods you tried, and so on.
These requirements are exceptionally high!
First, daily writing alone will eliminate most people.
Then, you need to know how to use various AI translation and generation tools, as well as practice reading along and recording yourself, and write retrospective notes.
The most challenging part is investing 3 hours every day and persisting for a year to reach 1,000 hours.
