How to create an intensive daily English learning routine for an advanced speaker?

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silentecho

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Hello! I am 25 years old. Most tests put my English at C1-C2 level. Vocabulary tests estimate that my passive vocabulary ranges from 10,000 to 25,000.

To my knowledge, my written English is so good I can blend in native spaces. I understand virtually all English content and can converse about any topic in English, so my English is advanced. However, my spoken English, due to a complete absence of practise, is bad:

In the few recent instances where I had to speak English to a native, I stuttered, forgot how to put together phrases, said the opposite of what I originally intended to say, not to mention that my English accent is clearly that of an Arabic speaker trying to speak English.

I want to take my English to a new level and to work on my weaknesses and maintain my strengths. I've decided to work on acquiring a British-influenced English, making sure I write, talk, and sound like a British speaker of English.
To that end, I have enrolled in a paid comprehensive British accent course. I also purchased the British Idioms ebook on this site.

However, I am struggling to find other ways to improve my English as I have advanced far beyond 99% of any ESL content available on the internet. It seems like consuming native content voraciously is my only option.

I am thinking of using the flashcard software "Anki" to improve my English further. At this point, I am going to somehow find a way to write more naturally (use words and phrase my sentences in a way that's close to how a native speaker would phrase and so on). Unfortunately, I have no idea what kind of flashcards should I make for someone at my level.

I don't know how to practise my spoken English, I don't live in an English speaking environment.
Thank you!
 
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It's in the title of the thread.

Your written English is good. The noun is "practice", not "practise" in BrE. You have a run-on sentence at the end.

That's the difficulty non-native speakers face in their own countries when it comes to learning spoken English - being in an environment where they are not exposed to good spoken English. They don't get to practise their spoken English or they only get to speak English with non-native speakers who do not speak good English. However, with the internet, I am sure there are sites which offer coaching in spoken English by native English speakers which you can make use of.
 
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@silentecho Note that although you have presented your title as a question, it's not. We don't start questions with "How to".
 
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