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What should\xa0be your\xa0focus when\xa0learning English?\nHow can you make the most of the time you invest in studying?\nToday Lindsay talks with Nick Vance about the 80/20 principle, and how it can improve your English conversations!\n\xa0\nTaking IELTS?\nGet our free IELTS video training course now\n\xa0\nNick believes that 80% of the positive benefits\xa0of something\xa0come from\xa020% of the input.\xa0In business, some customers are more valuable than others.\xa0With friends, though you may have many, only a few are truly close.\nIn learning English, most of the grammar mistakes a new learner makes are really the same mistake over and over.\xa0Correcting these most common 20% of mistakes would eliminate 80% of all grammar mistakes.\xa0The best way to identify these is by working with a teacher\xa0who can\xa0help point out your mistakes.\n\xa0\nAnother way to work with the 80/20 principle is to prepare answers to the most common questions you might get from native English speakers.\xa0This will help you comfortably get conversations started \u2014 which is probably 80% of the work!\nYou might prepare answers to questions like:\n\nWhere are you from?\n\nHow long have you lived here?\n\nWhat do you do for a living?\n\n\xa0\nDo you see the 80/20 principle working in your life?\nHow so?\nShare your thoughts with us in the comments section below!\n\xa0Nick Vance is\xa0originally from Kentucky and\xa0has lived in North Carolina, Washington DC, San Diego and Portland.\xa0He has\xa0been living in Berlin, Germany for 2.5 years.\xa0\xa0Nick\u2019s degree is in math but he left that field when\xa0he realized how much\xa0he enjoyed\xa0helping others\xa0learn English.\xa0\xa0Nick has\xa0been helping people improve their English for 4 years and have been teaching online via Italki for about one year.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices