good morning good afternoon or even good
evening depending of course what part of
the big wide world you happen to be in
right now I'm Julian and this is doing
English in today's lesson I'm going to
discuss one of your popular questions
how to respond quickly in English
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I would say that this just comes down to
practice really um if you think about it
maybe when somebody asks you a question
and you can't answer quickly or
automatically or you need to talk about
something but it just doesn't come as
fast or as easily if you would like it
to if you think about it that isn't
really something that's unique to
speaking in a second language for
example if somebody asks me in English
if somebody asks me a question that is
very difficult for me it's not easy to
respond to that very quickly and
automatically I'll have to think about
it a little bit and maybe I won't know
the answer and I'll um and mmm a lot and
maybe I'll get confused and I won't be
able to answer in a kind of smooth sort
of way and that might be the same for
any kind of topic that I don't talk
about a lot whether that's in my first
language English or in my second
language it doesn't really matter maybe
it's more obvious when it's in your
second language and you're more
conscious of it but I think it is
something which happens in your first
language - and I think practice is the
key there again if you think about how
you use your first language there are
probably some things that use talk about
again and again and again and you can
discuss very automatically and very
smoothly for example if somebody asks me
a question about are learning English
this is something that I talk about
almost all day every day I'm an English
teacher so of course I do so it's very
easy for me to respond very quickly and
very smoothly to most questions and try
and think of something that
you also talk about a lot and the kind
of conversations you maybe have again in
again and again and you'll probably be
able to speak about those very very
easily very automatically very smoothly
because it's something that you do again
and again and again it's repetition that
is the key I think so when it comes to
speaking English the first thing you've
got to do is understand that at first
it's not gonna come out smoothly because
repetition is the key and presumably you
will be having the same kinds of
conversations again and again in English
just like you do in your native language
so it will get easier over time but what
you can also do is if you know you're
going to have to talk about some
particular topic is just plan in your
head and think about what you're going
to say in advance and think about
questions you will be asked and plan
them in your head and there certainly if
for example like an you're giving like
an academic preparation at your school
or a university or something you can
kind of guess what the questions you're
gonna be asked are and prepare for those
and if you do get a question that you're
not prepared for and you're unable to
respond quickly and easily don't feel
bad about it because again it's
something native speakers have a problem
with - um just it's just more obvious
when you're an English Learner I think
um so yeah if you want to be able to
speak and respond more automatically in
more quickly
I think repetition is the key just don't
worry about it in the beginning and just
you know as you have this have the same
conversations again and again and again
and answer the same questions again and
again and again and it gets easy simple
is that
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that is it for today's lesson I think if
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some point um yeah that's it today see
you in the next lesson