self-study skill speaking oh this one many of you think what how can i self-study
speaking we often want feedback for our speaking or we want to be in conversation to practice
our speaking but this is not always necessary to practice you can do self-talk which is like
writing a journal but we do it out loud we speak it instead of write it you can do something called
mirroring so you can watch our july 13th live stream for a whole lesson on how to
do mirroring or you can join an online language exchange so let's talk about these three methods
self-talk which is like journaling out loud so this is something you can do in the comfort of
your home you can practice describing your day maybe pull up pictures on your phone and
try to describe them in english or describe what you see around you out loud to yourself
so this of course is something we do when we're alone and we just want to practice speaking
one of our viewers last week recommended doing this in a mirror so you can practice things
like keeping eye contact and using gestures while you speak so that's great but you can
always start by just describing your day and practicing your english to yourself
if you are thinking well i am not alone often maybe you live with other people
or you're very busy you can also practice thinking in english and practice internally
when you're in public or around other people so you can still do these things but just
think instead of speak right if you uh like this method and you want to use it but
you are around other people very often you can try doing it uh with your thinking as well right okay
next is mirroring so i'm only going to talk about this for a minute but if you watch our july 13th
live stream you will see a whole lesson about how to do this mirroring is a study practice that
involves studying and mimicking or copying a good english speaker's speech which means their words
intonation and rhythm and their body language so gestures facial expressions
and so on so make sure to check out that live stream this is a great study method that can
help you feel more confident in your speaking in your pronunciation and so on and last is join an
online language exchange there are many apps and websites for online language exchanges here you
can chat with native english speakers anytime for practice for example try speaky this is one that
is a typing chatting app but you can chat with native english speakers for practice it's very
comfortable because it's just again on your phone typing so you have time to think there's
no worries about making mistakes or anything like that so you can use an online language exchange
and before we end remember that enjoyment and consistency are extremely important