What should-be your-focus when-learning English? How can you make the most of the time you invest in studying? Today Lindsay talks with Nick Vance about the 80/20 principle, and how it can improve your English conversations! - Taking IELTS? Get our free IELTS video training course now - Nick believes that 80% of the positive benefits-of something-come from-20% of the input.-In business, some customers are more valuable than others.-With friends, though you may have many, only a few are truly close. In learning English, most of the grammar mistakes a new learner makes are really the same mistake over and over.-Correcting these most common 20% of mistakes would eliminate 80% of all grammar mistakes.-The best way to identify these is by working with a teacher-who can-help point out your mistakes. - Another way to work with the 80/20 principle is to prepare answers to the most common questions you might get from native English speakers.-This will help you comfortably get conversations started - which is probably 80% of the work! You might prepare answers to questions like: Where are you from? How long have you lived here? What do you do for a living? - Do you see the 80/20 principle working in your life? How so? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below! -Nick Vance is-originally from Kentucky and-has lived in North Carolina, Washington DC, San Diego and Portland.-He has-been living in Berlin, Germany for 2.5 years.--Nick-s degree is in math but he left that field when-he realized how much-he enjoyed-helping others-learn English.--Nick has-been helping people improve their English for 4 years and have been teaching online via Italki for about one year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices