Has it always been your dream to speak English fluently?
Well my channel can help you do just that. In this video I'm going to share
with you my seven top tips on how you can start to speak English fluently .
So by the end of the video you will feel much more confident about your English
speaking AND how you're going to become fluent and you will improve your English
better and faster than you ever thought possible. Let's go
Welcome to my channel where you will learn English better and welcome aboard
Palm Tree Teaching English Academy. I'm Deirdre Nicholas English expert teacher
trainer and speaker and for more than 20 years I've helped thousands of English
learners all around the world to improve their English and now it's your turn.
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My video will help to take your English to the next level
It will improve your speaking and get you on the road to English fluency and to
English speaking confidence. Firstly let's look at what fluency actually
means it's defined as being able to speak or write quickly or easily in a
language. Now what it isn't is being absolutely perfect at a language so
you're probably much closer than you thought you were to becoming fluent already.
So here are my top seven tips for fluency in English for you.
Number 1 Don't study grammar so much. English experts say you don't need to study
grammar to get fluent as a good thing to remember as I said in my secrets to
learning English and I put the card above you need to learn English like a
child and they don't study grammar separately from the rest of the language
so you shouldn't either grammar is just one part of English and
it's actually not the most important. Worrying about grammar is a sure way to
stop your speaking and if you stop speaking how can you communicate?
You just need to focus on speaking and this will lead to fluency much quicker than
if you worry about your grammar and it will be much less stressful and much
more fun
Number 2 Don't worry about making mistakes
Now remember when babies and children learn English they don't worry about
mistakes they make mistakes all the time and they're a really important part of learning.
Remember that people are not listening to you to examine your English
They don't mind you make a mistake and the most
important part of gaining fluency is to get your message across. So if you can
communicate to the person and they understand you you're well on your way
to becoming fluent.
Number 3 Start to think in English.
Are you translating from your language into English when you speak? Well STOP IT ! Start to think in
English when you speak it's easier than you think this is really important to
become fluent to think in the language remember what I said about fluency it's
being able to speak quickly and easily and you can't do that
if you're using all the time to translate the words that you want from
your own language into English before you open your mouth
So when you think in
English you can actually double your speed of speaking. So how do you do this?
Well use an English dictionary for a start when you look up words don't use a
bilingual dictionary. Start using any new vocabulary that you learn immediately to
get it into your head and I've got two more tips coming up
that will really help you to think in English and in fact English thinking in
English is such an important part of learning to become fluent that I will
produce another video very soon on this.
Now. Number 4 Learn phrases not words
So as you know learning phrases will help you to become much more fluent in
English and become much more natural and more like a native speaker and I gave
you lots of information on this actually in another one of my videos on the
secrets to learning English so be sure to watch that. When you want to become
fluent you want to start staying whole sentences so if you learn phrases you're
nearly there you're nearly saying a whole sentence to start with. So your
English will become more natural if you use phrases and you'll be able to use
them much more easily rather than just learning words or verbs that won't help
you to say whole sentences and your confidence will increase because you
know that you're going to be sounding much better.
Now before I go on to the
next tip I just want you to let me know in the comments below if you're starting
to feel better and more motivated and more confident
about becoming fluent now. I really hope that I'm motivating you to not only give
you guidance on fluency but help you to realize that you are becoming more and
more fluent and English in fluency in English is not so impossible after all
so leave a comment can you I'd be great to hear from you
Number 5 Talk to yourself and copy me too!
So talk to yourself. What talk to me?
Yes talk to me. But what should I say? Well you could start by watching my
videos practice all the phrases and the sentences and the tongue twisters.
That sounds like a great idea I'm gonna start right now.
So practice is so important to
become fluent and what better way than to practice them with yourself in a
mirror. No I'm not mad! It's a really fun and
very useful way of doing it. Why not try my tongue twisters in front of a mirror
as well? I guarantee you're laugh. But also the more you practice the more
comfortable you will be in speaking English as I know it's not always
possible to find someone to talk to so the best way is to do that with yourself
Remember my lesson on imitation and copying? You could do this too to help
your intonation and sentence stress which will also help your fluency.
Number 6 Learn through repetition. You will only learn to be fluent if you remember the
phrases in the sentences and the sentence patterns easily and quickly and
the best way of doing this is to repeat everything you learned a lot.
I made
another video about this. To repeat repeat repeat, in my five secrets of
learning English so be sure to watch that. So studies have actually shown that
people forget ninety percent of what they've learned after one month.
So keep repeating and reviewing
Number 7 Live your English!
Read it, watch it
listen to it, breathe it, eat it, sleep it everything in English
It's not something that you're learning when you couldn't when you've got time
and you can squeeze it into a minute a day. It should be part of your life on a
daily basis and make it fun. Do some of the tongue twisters that I've shown you
in my videos. Just enjoy your English. Listen to podcasts and audios. Listen to
radio shows and the BBC and the news and watch videos. And watch my YouTube videos too
And very soon in the next few weeks I will also be providing free
transcripts of my own videos which will help you too so you can watch my videos
and you can read the words as well. I'm also going to be providing you with a
lot more English language learning linked to this site. So keep watching and watch
this space. Then you'll be able to become part of the Palm Tree Teaching English
Academy I hope you've really enjoyed this video.
If you have, hit the like button and make a comment below because I'd love to hear
from you. Don't forget I post two lessons a week once on a Tuesday and once on a
Friday so subscribe so you don't miss either of my lessons and enjoy learning
your English and I'll see you really soon bye