I've been living in Canada for two years and a half, but my english is not so good specially the listening; i haven't gone to school because i ought to work and i don't have time to do it. Could you guys advice me about what is the best way to learn english for real without going to school?. I appreciate every one of your answers.

Submersion in a language is vital to learning a language. Simply put, this means you need to surround yourself with the best possible grammar, a large variety of words, some slang, and you need to start thinking in that language, rather than translating.

Thinking rather than translating means that, now you're just taking an English word and you're translating it to your native language. That works great when you begin, but it makes grammar very diffecult.

English is an extremely complicated language to learn. We have quite a few grammar rules and the best way to blend-in, is to learn those grammar rules. You do that by thinking in english, rather than translating. That's what I mean by submersion.

This is why natives to Canada spend most of their time as children taking English classes. Keep in mind, children's brains are more adaptable, because their short-term memory and neo-cortex (the part of the brain responsible for verbal-language), overlap their long-term memory until they're about 6-years-old. After that, the brain gets bigger and bigger, and those two parts of the brain grow further and further apart. The further apart, the longer the distance the information has to travel. This means that we may forget things while it's traveling. This is why we describe a child's mind as a sponge. They literally absorb everything they attempt to learn. As adults, we don't have that ability. We have a few dry spots in between and some things get lost. So we need to try even harder to submerse ourselves.

Your english is actually very good. I'm impressed. I can read your accent, but it's actually very good. You even used the contractions "I've", "don't" and "haven't" properly. You're using the punctuation properly too.

Hang out with people who have good english - good pronunciation and accents will probably rub off onto you.

watch television and listen to the spoken words.

Well I think the best way is always to go live in a place where it's the 1st language.. but if you can't do that, maybe you can try what I did to learn english...

Choose yourself an interest, anything. It might be reading, a tv show, movies... and you have to do it in english ONLY. And get yourself a dictionary. Remember it's something that should be fun- it's easier that way. It worked for me.
Or make yourself friends with people that speak english only.

Buy English Taps/Cds/Dvds Etcc....