- Will reading advanced text out loud improve
your English speaking?
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Hello, I'm Julian Northbrook from DoingEnglish.com
and here's a good question that I got
on this here YouTube Channel.
Will reading advanced text outloud improve
your English speaking?
Honestly, no not really.
Look, it's simple, you get good at what you practise.
And if what you are practising is reading long,
advanced, written text out loud what you will get good at
is reading long, advanced, written text out loud.
Speaking is speaking.
Conversation is conversation.
Writing is writing.
They aren't really the same.
Random book off my bookshelf, Probabilistic Linguistics.
Let's turn to a random page.
Okay, here we go.
First appealing to social explanations for the patterning
of linguistic data and to ensure the validity
and replicability students of variation
begin by thoroughly investigating the
(heavy sigh) You see what I mean?
This ain't spoken language.
This is long, advanced text, this ain't gonna help
you speak in conversation.
There is a fundamental misunderstanding here.
And that is that in order to speak better English
to sound "advanced" in English you need
to learn advanced English.
Big, difficult, complicated sounding words and grammar.
Long sentences and ugh, it's not true.
Research proves this.
People who use simple, clear, concise language
sound more intelligent than people who use
"advanced" language.
Check this video right here for more on that.
Everyday conversation uses a surprisingly small
number of words and grammar patterns.
For example, take the tenses.
Watch this video about the distribution of the tenses
and how we basically just use the simple present
and the simple past most of the time.
You see, what matters is not how many big,
advanced, complicated words and grammar rules
you know, what matters is how you combine
the simple, fundamental language
into native-like chunks of English.
Whether it's my Extraordinary English Speakers members
posting videos for critique for the first time,
people coming to me as coaching clients,
or whatever the situation, 99.9% of the time
their speaking problem comes down to this.
It's not that they don't know enough English,
it's simply that they don't know how
to combine the English they've got
into common native-like chunks of English.
Anyway, look, if you're struggling
to improve your English speaking
and you don't know what to do to get better,
instead of struggling by yourself
and trying this and trying that
and trying to read long, complicated,
advanced text out loud and not getting anywhere,
pick up a copy of my book Master English Fast:
An Uncommon Guide to Speaking Extraordinary English.
There's a link in the description down below this video.
You can get it as a paperback or on Kindle
and you can read the first chapter for free, if you like.
But this bad boy will show you
step by single step what to do
to improve your English as an intermediate
to an advanced learner struggling
to speak English smoothly, naturally
and in a native-like way.
That's it for me, Julian Northbrook, for this video.
I hope it was useful.
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just stick it down in the comments.
If it's an interesting question,
I will make a video answering it.
If it's a boring question, I probably won't bother,
so leave an interesting one.
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