I know it's easier to understand English usually than to actually speak it so I have a really
simple exercise this video is not going to be long but I have to share it with you because it's so
powerful are you ready well if you're ready to improve your English fluency then let's go I'm
Gabby Wallace from gonaturalenglish.com your American English coach and this is a simple
exercise I want to share with you because it's free it's easy it's fast and it will superpower
your English I use this exercise when I want to practice my Spanish Portuguese or other
languages too and what's best is it can work at any level whether you are just starting out as a
beginner or if you're super Advanced like native level fluency so here it is let me see if I can
explain it just simply basically you're going to imagine a situation that might be coming up maybe
something that's happening tomorrow or later this week earlier this month or just simply
something that you would like to have happen in the near future like a situation that you would
like to be in like maybe you would like to have an interview in English but you don't have one
scheduled yet so imagine a situation that's kind of an everyday situation that is likely to happen
or maybe you would like to have happen okay you got it got the situation in your mind very good
okay now you're going to imagine that you're going to be the first person to talk in this situation
so maybe you start with a greeting good morning how are you uh how was your weekend something
like that right and then you're going to imagine the response Oh I'm great I caught up on a TV
series this weekend how about you oh yeah what would you say What's your your response you're
going to imagine that starting the conversation and how you would continue the conversation so
basically this is visualization for your English conversation so you're not going to wait until
you are thrown into an English-speaking situation and then everything is new and you feel shocked
because it's like jumping into the deep end of a really cold pool and you just weren't prepared and
you feel Frozen and stuck and you're like I want to get out of here as soon as possible no you're
going to ease yourself and you're going to become really mentally comfortable with English speaking
situations because you're going to Envision them happening you're going to imagine them
you're going to create them in your mind before they even happen and then you'll be shocked how
they happen usually step by step exactly as you imagine especially as you get more comfortable
leading conversations let's say you don't want to be the first one to talk well you can also
Imagine a conversation where someone approaches you but I like to imagine conversations where
you take action to make them happen because then you have the control and you can feel a bit more
comfortable I think when you have that control when you're the one starting the conversation
okay so there's really just three steps to this exercise one you imagine the situation so really
ask yourself like when is this situation going to happen where is it going to happen like are
you in an office are you at a park are you at the grocery store what time of day when or
um you know when in the calendar like when this week or is it going to be in the morning is it
going to be in the evening okay so you have when where why what's the purpose of you talking with
someone at this time I said for an interview is it because you want to meet a new neighbor is it
because you have a question in the grocery store uh there's so many reasons but I want you to think
of the when where why what what are you going to say and how are you going to say it so step
two is really moving into the what and the how what are you going to say what would be a nice
way to open or to start a conversation it could be a greeting as I meant it could be a question
if you have a question let's say you're in the grocery store and it's as simple as
what kind of coffee do you recommend you're in the coffee aisle and there's so many
choices right and you want to know what is a good type of coffee or any other type of
question you can imagine that's just my first example because I love coffee you guys I love
um so what are you going to say how are you going to say it are you going to smile are you going to
speak confidently the answer is yes for both of these um so think about what you're going
to say how you're going to say it and what do you imagine the response from the other person being
you could imagine it going a few different ways I mean they could ignore you that's not likely but
it could happen they could say oh I recommend this kind or um I don't know I've never tried
coffee who has never tried coffee I don't know why I even thought of that response but it's possible
um crazy people who never drink coffee just kidding okay so you have to imagine the response
so that it doesn't catch you off guard and logically speaking you will probably think
of a response that is likely to happen so then you feel comfortable when it actually happens because
you've lived through this before it's not like a shock to your system because it's the first time
that you experience this conversation you've actually experienced it in your mind okay does
that sound a little weird because it's actually super helpful and no the conversation may not
go exactly as you imagine but at least you've prepared yourself a little bit and then you can
imagine third step like how do you want to end the conversation imagine some possibilities for
ending the conversation now this is not a long conversation we're not talking about an hour
talking on the phone you know we're talking about maybe three phrases or sentences back and forth
this is just to help you feel more confident when you step into those English-speaking situations
so envision your next conversation this doesn't take long you can do this in about five minutes
for a short conversation maybe for a longer conversation or preparing for an interview or
something like that you want to take 20 minutes 30 minutes actually practice you know writing it
out saying it out loud you can really go pretty far with this exercise you could just imagine
it to yourself and your mind or you could write it out practice saying it even record yourself
speaking and review listen to yourself see how you did so you can take this pretty far if you
want to all right well anything you would add to this any other fast easy and effective English
practice ideas you'd like to add let me know in the comments I really appreciate you watching
again I'm Gabby from go naturalenglish.com if you'd like to learn more with me and my
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just don't give up you've got this we've got this together let's go let's get fluent bye for now