Hello, this is Jack from tofluency.com
and in this video we're going to look at how you can improve
your English speaking skills, so keep watching!
I receive many emails from English learners
telling me that they want to improve their English
speaking, and I imagine this is what you want too
but before we take a look at the specific ways that you can improve your
speaking
it's important to know that working on your general
English is going to help your speaking too. So, make sure you're doing the other
things that you need to do to improve your level.
So, there are two main ways that you can improve your
english speaking, and the first way
is to get more natural practice; and this just means having conversations
with other people in English. Doing this not only helps you use your English in
different situations
but it also allows you to learn new words and phrases
and to learn more about English by listening
to other people speak. And having conversations
is one of the best ways that you can get natural
input. The second way to improve your speaking
is to do something that I call focused learning
and this is when you practice specific things
to help you improve, and you can do this on your own
or work with a teacher, and this is different than having
normal everyday conversations
An example of this is doing drills and
other things that are going to help you improve your pronunciation
and I feel that not enough learners
spend enough time working on their pronunciation
It will make a massive difference if you can say the different sounds in English
correctly
in addition to being able to use the correct stress,
intonation, and rhythm when you speak
and that's why I recommend that you spend time
working on your pronunciation. Another
example of focused learning is mimicking
native speakers, and anyone can do this now
because of all the audio that is available for free
online. And this is an easy method
to work on: all you need to do is listen to a native speaker
and then repeat after they speak
To take this method further you can actually
record your audio, and then compare it
to the original recording. What this does
is it allows you to compare your version
to the original version, and then make any changes that you need to make
So, using a combination of natural practice
and also the focused learning methods I talked about
is really going to help you... and
my question for this video is this:
How often do you speak in English? How often do you speak
in English? Leave your answers below this video
thanks for watching, and see you next time!