Do you speak English? Do you want to
speak English fluently? Do you want to
speak English like and native? If the
answer to these questions is yes then
stay tuned because I have five essential
pieces of advice that you should be
following in order to achieve fluency.
Hello my name is Anna this is English
like a native and we're finally
answering that age-old question how to
achieve fluency when learning English. Of
course there is one thing that you
should all be doing in order to improve
your English and that is to spend some
time working one-on-one with a great
English teacher. Now lots of you asked me
for private lessons and I do as many
private lessons as I possibly can but I
can't see all of you, however I do have
an affordable solution for you and that
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let's get down to business, what five
things do you need to do in order to
achieve fluency?
Practice every day! If you don't use it
you lose it, that means if you're not
practicing on a regular basis your brain
will forget the information so make sure
you're practicing your English on a
daily basis even if that's just singing
an English song when you're driving to
work or thinking about English sentences
and phrases while you're brushing your
teeth. So if you seriously want to be
fluent don't make excuses just do it
Don't be afraid to fail, making mistakes
is all part of the process if you don't
fail then how will you ever succeed how
will you ever learn. Speak even if you
don't know how to pronounce the words
Write even if you don't know how to
spell the words. Have a conversation even
if you don't fully understand what the
other person is saying. When children
learn to speak they make mistake after
mistake after mistake but by trying the
people around them are happy to help
them and encourage them to improve; as
adults we become self-conscious and
frightened of failure but without the
courage to make ourselves vulnerable
without the courage to step outside of
our comfort zone then you will never
grow or improve or reach your goals so
go out and make mistakes. Be courageous
enough to fail and by doing that you
will succeed. Natives can read write
speak and listen so if you want to be
fluent in the language you have to
practice all things equally so on a
regular basis start watching English
films or an English series. Follow an
English podcast or listen to the radio
Connect with natives or other English
learners to practice your speaking on
a regular basis or just talk to yourself. Write a
diary, write stories, even write your
shopping list in English. On a daily
basis you can read an English newspaper
or follow an English blog. My point is
you should be learning via many
different avenues reading writing
listening watching speaking to lots of
different people so don't get stuck just
doing one thing. Stop worrying about the
rules. English is a weird language it
doesn't always make sense but us natives
don't worry about it so neither should
you. Everyday I get hundreds of
questions things like why do we
pronounce this word in this way? Where
did this word come from? Why do i
structure the sentence in such a way? Why
don't I say it like this? And in most cases
my honest answer is: I don't know. I
didn't make the language. I didn't make
the rules or the exceptions to the
rules; f I did make the English language
then I would have made it a lot easier
but the point is we don't need to know
why we just need to know how. If you're
learning to drive a car you don't need
to know how the car works, how it turns
petrol into energy to make the car move
All you need to know is how to actually
drive, how to stick the key in the
ignition, how to control the car, how to make it go and how to make it stop, not
how it works that's not important. It's a
waste of your energy, it's a waste of
your studying time, it's a waste of your
memory space learning all those rules
and origins so stop worrying us natives
don't worry about it so neither should
you. If you truly want to speak like a
native then learn like a native. There
are two distinct ways to learn a
language; the first is probably how you
are trying to learn the language now.
You learn the rules, you do lots of writing
exercises grammar drills, you learn the
exceptions to the rules, you learn big
list of vocabulary, ah. So what you're
doing is learning the language and all
the rules which most of us natives don't
actually know and never learnt. And the
other way to learn language is to learn
like and native learns the same way that
you learn your language when you were
very young. You watch situations, you
learn the words to describe the way you're
feeling, you learn the phrases to
describe exactly what you want, you
listen to people talking on a daily
basis, and little by little you start to
remember certain words when you hear
them over and over again. You try to
speak you try to communicate. You may
get it wrong, people correct you, that's
okay. You improve and slowly but surely
through listening experiencing enjoying
speaking reading writing slowly but
surely you acquire the language. But
everybody's different. Some people like
to learn the language learn the grammar
learn the rules and other people like to
acquire the language experience the
language if you do this it will be more
fun the language will last longer and
you'll speak more like a native. If you
do this, it might not be as fun, it might
take a long time, and you might not sound
like a native at the end of it, but how
about doing a lot of this with a little
bit of that, so that this can then help
to reinforce that. So there you have it
five things that you should be doing in
order to achieve fluency. If you found
this in any way helpful then please show
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let me know how you get on I'd love to
hear about your progress. Okay until next
time take care and goodbye