I think you already know that if you
want to improve your English speaking
skills you have to practice right you
have to speak studying grammar who never
improve your speaking listening to
English alone will never improve your
speaking you have to actually speak but
what if you don't have someone to talk
to in English how can you practice them
well there's a technique that allows you
to learn to speak English by yourself
no speaking partner is required this
technique can help improve many aspects
of your spoken English your sentence
structure your grammar your vocabulary
and most importantly your ability to
express your thoughts and ideas
effectively so what is this technique
well here's what it is
learning to speak English through
imitation when I say imitation I'm not
talking about repeating at the native
figures using the exact same words to
improve your pronunciation I'm talking
about something a little more advanced
than that here's how it works you listen
to a conversation a story or some kind
of speech and then try to deliver that
speech in your own words let's see this
technique in action when I was a child
when he was a child my parents like to
pretend like many other parents his
parents like to pretend like many other
parents that Santa Claus would bring us
presents at Christmas her parents like
to pretend that Santa Claus would bring
them presents at Christmas so when my
siblings and I would wake up on
Christmas morning so when he and his
siblings would wake up on Christmas
morning there would be a bunch of
presents from supposedly Santa Claus
sitting in front of the fireplace there
be a bunch of presents from supposedly
Santa Claus sitting in front of the
fireplace so that's how it works but
that's just one way to do it there are
other ways too for example instead of
imitating very small portions of speech
like phrases and short sentences you can
imitate larger portions of speech
so in this case you wait until the
speaker completes a thought or an idea
then pause and try to express that idea
yourself
another approach is to simply listen to
the whole speech and then try to deliver
that entire speech yourself so there are
several ways to go about it but what I
recommend is to combine them all
together and I call this approach easy
to heart imitation easy to heart
imitation it's based on the concept of
progressive training the idea is that
you start with something easy and then
increase the difficulty of the activity
forcing yourself to get better a number
of studies have found this kind of
training to be very effective here's how
you can apply this concept start by
imitating small portions of speech first
light phrases and short sentences then
move on - imitating larger portions of
speech like long sentences or even
groups of sentences and finally try to
deliver the entire speech on your own
this technique offers many benefits you
get to listen and imitate correct
English which helps you learn to form
sentences properly you get to learn
idioms expressions and other speaking
patterns that are used in day-to-day
conversations you get to learn grammar
when you imitate other people you're
learning grammar through a process
called implicit learning this is the
process where the learning happens with
value awareness this is how babies and
children learn the grammar rules of the
first language when you imitate you
don't think about grammar you're not
trying to understand why the present
perfect tense is used in this situation
or in that situation instead you're
focused on communication on
understanding and expressing ideas
you're still learning grammar but you're
not aware that it's happening this is
one of the proper ways to learn grammar
okay that concludes this video to help
you get started I've put together a
step-by-step tutorial on this technique
if you interested click here to go to
that tutorial