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okay today's topic is
how to double your speaking time in your
target language
today you're going to learn one why it's
hard for many learners to make progress
with their speaking skills and two how
you can double your speaking time if
you've always wanted to speak more of
your target language then this episode
is for you
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into today's topic
how to double your speaking time in your
target language
okay let's get into part one why is real
speaking progress so hard to make
let's say you've studied the language
for a few months and now you finally
have a chance to practice speaking maybe
you have a tutor or a native speaker
friend who is willing to practice with
you you start talking and your friend
helps you improve bits and pieces of
your speaking like pronunciation and
grammar and maybe you can talk about
your day and common topics but without
proper preparation on both sides the
person learning and the person teaching
that's it you're limited to what you can
talk about you don't know enough of the
language to keep going and they aren't
prepared to help you speak more of the
language
so if you try to have an open-ended
conversation you'll fall flat at some
point you'll run out of things to say
and talk about you'll run out of words
and topics
and this is true outside of language
learning it's easy for conversations to
die when you run out of things to talk
about a freestyle approach to
conversation is nice for advanced
learners or people who do serious
preparation but it's not so great for
beginners
this is one reason it's hard to make
real progress with speaking you run out
of things to say
but there is a way to double your
speaking time even if you're an absolute
beginner even if you're low on words and
grammar and that's by adding structure
that you'll find in our lessons let's
get into that
part 2 how you can double your speaking
time with our audio and video lessons
let's say you're having a practice
conversation with that same friend
except this time both of you have a list
of topics to follow then your
conversations won't die out as quickly
the point is if you have a structure to
follow like a lesson there's always
something for you to fall back on and if
you're already using our audio and video
lessons you get just that
so here's how you can use our lessons to
double your speaking time one make sure
to listen to and review your current
audio or video lessons why
each lesson conversation is based on a
certain topic like talking about the
weather talking about family ordering
food and so on so by simply taking a
lesson you learn a conversation around a
certain topic
lessons will give you a lot of topics to
talk about along with the relevant
grammar and vocabulary which many
beginners might not have think about it
if you wanted to talk about a vacation
you'd need to know words like vacation
cruise and holiday in your target
language you'd also need the right
grammar points to help you express ideas
our audio and video lessons will provide
you with all of these so listen to the
lessons and prepare ahead of time
two use the dialogue presented in the
lesson in other words you can memorize
the lines from the lesson dialogue
you're already learning conversations in
the lessons so you may as well use them
for yourself
and doing this will help prepare you for
future conversations think about it we
often use lines like where are you from
what's your name my name is how was your
weekend i went out last weekend once you
memorize these expressions you can and
will use them over and over as an
example imagine you do a few lessons
about the weather you'll master a few
conversations about it the next time
that topic pops up in real life you'll
be able to talk about it and three each
lesson comes with cultural insights what
does that mean for you
it gives you more things to talk about
with a native speaker
so if you bring up a cultural point in a
conversation with a native speaker
you'll likely get a good reaction and
extend the conversation because you're
talking about what they know best their
culture
so today you learn one why it's hard for
many learners to make progress with
their speaking skills it's because we
tend to run out of things to say and two
how you can double your speaking time
accomplish this by
taking our lessons memorizing the
dialogues and using the cultural
insights so thank you for watching this
episode of monthly review next time
we'll talk about
how to start conversations talking
points for language learners
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