become a confident speaker
By grownup11
@grownup11 (219)
China
May 26, 2007 8:06am CST
How to improve your english speaking skills, so that you can communicate more easily and effectively.
These tips will help you to become a more confident speaker.
Practice where you can ,when you can ,Any pratice is good -whether you speak to someone who is a native English speaker or not .
It's important to build your confidence.If possible ,use simple sentence structure that you know is correct , so that you can concentrate on getting your message across.
Try to experiment with the English you know.Apply words and phrase you know to new situation.
Native English speaker are more likely to correct you if you use the wrong word than if you use the wrong grammer.Experimenting with vocabulary is a really good way of getting feedback .
Try to respond to what people say to you.You can often get clues to what people think by looking at their body language.Respond to them in a natural way.
Try not to translate into and from your own language.
This takes too much time and will make you more hesitant.
If you forget a word ,do what native English speaker do all the time,and say things that "fill"the conversation .
This is better than remaining completely silent.Try use the "um",or "er",if you forget the word.
Don't speak too fast! It's important to use a natural rhythm in speaking English, bue if you speak too fast it will be difficult for people to understand you.
Try to relax when you speak ,and you'll find that your mouth does most of the pronunciation work for you.When you speak English at normal speed ,you'll discover that many of the pronunciation rules,such as word linking ,happen automatically.
5 responses
@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
30 May 07
Good and useful tips by you.
Are you an English teacher? If yes, please let me know ...so I could learn more about the language.
@wonderful1 (2075)
• China
3 Jun 07
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@Elusive (285)
• United States
30 May 07
from a native english speaker this is very well writen, and would help alot of people, the only big thing though that i have noticed is with the certain accents of different cultures some cultures cannot form certain words that we use is english wich can cause communication errors, if you can figure out a way to help lessen the accent differences you could be a book writing genious ;)
@paradise12 (938)
• India
2 Jun 07
Loads of thanks to you.i was looking for this thing.u have written very good article.i will surely use this in my daily life.bye.tc.