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so we thought we'd help you with speaking tips now this is a very
important lesson because of course the first thing you need to do with the
language is be able to speak it so this is our top 10 speaking tips to improve
your fluency and confidence in English before we get started don't forget you
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escape us guys love English is everywhere right so tip number one now
obviously you need to practice speaking English as much as possible
in order to improve your fluency now this means trying very hard not to speak
your own language so finding people to speak in English
with even so much as recording yourself which we'll talk about later you don't
have anyone to speak with recording yourself saying sentences and things
like that we'll come on to more about that tip later if you are lucky enough
as our students are to come to the UK America Australia an english-speaking
country to study then please take that as an opportunity so don't think that
it's just in the classroom they are these speaking English yeah it's called
immersion and the more you speak in the language the more you'll start to think
in it and the more confident you will become and the easier it gets
yeah so it's very important number two you might not realize it but it's not
just the classroom that you can do pronunciation exercises there are lots
of different course books that you could buy or download apps for yeah one of our
favorite is pronunciation in use I use in the class yeah I think this book it's
fantastic it has so many exercises of improving your pronunciation working
with the phonemic chart it also comes in different levels so you can get
elementary intermediate advanced and it looks at those
difficult sounds as well as things like intonation and stress that are also
important in pronunciation yeah absolutely you can do these exercises by
yourself just ten minutes a day of listening to pronunciation
exercises saying those sounds and you'll really see a difference that brings us
on to tongue twisters number three yeah let's see a twisted tongue Leila that is
what these these exercises do to your tongue which is actually very good for
you because it helps train your mouth to understand how to make these new sounds
and so they become easier each time so a tongue twister will focus on a specific
sound and will push you to say it a lot for example she sells seashells on the
seashore the shells she sells are seashells. Oh very good Leila
I think you've probably seen some of our other videos where we looked at tongue
twisters with ch and sh and w and b these are really good exercises
you have a really good way of explaining that Leila a lot of you will not have
certain sounds in English in your language and therefore you've got no
idea how to make those sounds 'l' and r, v and f, th in Italian yeah so it's
about training the muscles it's going to the gym for your mouth yes it is it's a workout
for your tongue right now tip number four it's an obvious one whether it is
grammar vocabulary or in this case pronunciation and speaking use the words
you learn hey so when you have learn a new word it might be quite
straightforward but you still need to practice saying it so practice makes
perfect up yeah so if we look at the example maybe curious I think yeah
thinking of a word yep yep curious curious but just
said she was curious yeah I need to be able to use words within a context with
other words either side and that way you'll really know if you could
pronounce it because you can say a word but then when you try and put it with
other words in a sentence and try and say it quickly things can go a little
bit wrong yeah so you can make sure guys that you're practicing whole sentences
not just saying the words okay so tip number five now in order to practice
speaking English obviously it's very useful to have people to speak it with
speaking it by yourself is not quite so much fun so we really recommend you
finding some friends that want to speak English with you so find out do you have
friends in your class that perhaps really want to practice their English
outside the classroom why not have an English conversation club and go for
coffees and things like that so I am organize your own English English
speaking group or something like that the weekends maybe even going out for
dinner and things like that you know make it a social thing where you all
agree that you have to speak in English now if you're somewhere where you don't
know anybody that wants to speak English which is something that actually lots of
people write to us in comments that how do I speak English because I don't have
anyone to speak it with one way to do this is it's online actually now there
are so many speaking Facebook groups and practice English Facebook groups
obviously we don't recommend you going and meeting strangers but perhaps you
could arrange you know if you if you organize something safely you could
arrange a Skype a Skype conversation with someone to practice your English
just be careful who you give your information out to of course yeah
absolutely six right now I wonder if any of you
have done this before I've certainly recommended it to students it's a great
way to make sure that you're correcting your grammar and pronunciation mistakes
as well recording your self
little bit scary but something you can do by yourself
we've all got smartphones now so it's quite easy to record yourself you can
even video yourself so you can see how your mouth is moving and compare it when
you are perhaps copying a sentence from a film or a YouTube lesson there we go
so and you can watch that back and try to correct yourself that's very
important yeah look at your error it's only speaking fluently how is your
grammar how is your vocabulary did you say too many of the same words and of
course how is your pronunciation okay so every country has a couple of mistakes
that they make in English which are very common for example if you're from Asia
you might have a problem with the r sound i did 'l' oh yeah it's easy to confuse them
because in China for example there is no r sound in the Chinese language so
it would be quite difficult for you to make that sound if you're a Turkish
speaker you might not be able to say th ah if you're a Spanish speaker you might
not be able to say b and b you might confuse them if you're Italian
then it's usually stop th or h oh yeah angry the French as well can't say
h and of course Arabs have a problem with the b sound b and p
they can't say p yeah so if you are aware of the problems that your
particular country has your particular language has then you can be aware of
this and train yourself to understand how to say that sound so if you know
that in your language you don't have a p sound that's when you need to
practice and do tongue twisters so yes be aware of the common mistakes you make
we will also be having some very special pronunciation lessons for you based on
your nationality and the errors you so make sure that you subscribe so that
you get updated when those lessons come out okay tip and number eight be aware
of all the errors you make and whether it's grammar vocabulary maybe getting
confused with word families is it health is it healthy which should you use in
which context and this is very important if you do any exams where there's IELTS
CAE our University and exams we are not looking for perfection we don't expect
it but we do expect you to correct yourself don't get scared
no don't suddenly make a mistake and then stop now not what we want to see
that you can correct yourself and continue if you correct yourself you are
showing the teacher or you're showing your friends or whoever it is that
actually you know the right thing to say if you don't correct your error it seems
like you don't know that you're saying the wrong thing so actually in an exam
it can really help you get a higher score to correct yourself and to actually
go back and say the right thing so yes self correction so number nine
now we've all felt like this I think so I think everybody will understand this
feeling who is a language learner it's easy to feel afraid and feel shy and
think oh no my pronunciation is not good enough I don't know enough vocabulary
I'm gonna stay quite in the corner and not speak hmm don't do that guys be
brave the only way to improve is to speak as much as possible as we said
before and I think the thing that most people worry about is making mistakes
but actually as we said before mistakes are actually useful because you can go
back and correct them but also other people can correct you yes I wouldn't
have a job if you didn't make them yeah exactly yeah that's what we're here for
so you can actually learn from your mistakes it's like life brilliant and
actually Sabrah and I are very good examples of Italian language learners Sabrah
is much better than I am because she's not scared to speak where I
probably make lots and lots of mistakes I don't care I just chat away is great
do an accent can't stop in any language whereas I am a little bit more worried
about making mistakes and I like to be accurate I don't want to sound stupid
perfectionist, grammar perfectionist maybe but we certainly notice this when it comes
to different nationalities I won't mention which nationalities but there
are those that are very much sticking to the grammar, very kind of
rigid in how they use the language whereas others will just talk and be
happy to communicate and it's those ones that actually tend to make the best
progress the quickest yes so don't be afraid don't be shy have a go you know and
learn from your mistakes right number 10 we got there finally and I think this
is potentially the most important, definitely yeah! Subscribe ok yes of course
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so much guys for watching they were our top ten speaking tips we really hope
they help you and hope that they will improve your English fluency and
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