Improve your speaking skills
Improve your speaking skills
How to improve your English speaking skills: Try these 8 tips.
1. Practice speaking with different people as much as you can. This is essential for improving your oral English.
2. Reflect on conversations. This helps increase your confidence and identify areas for improvement.
3. Listen to music, podcasts, and read books to acquire more vocabulary.
4. Prepare cheat sheets for specific situations to gain further confidence.
5. Start with phone conversations to overcome challenges and practice new vocabulary.
6. Record your voice and get feedback to help you identify areas you need to work on.
7. When speaking, use phrases rather than single words to improve your fluency.
8. Make speaking practice fun by talking to yourself, singing along to songs, and doing tongue twisters.
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More resources on improve your speaking are available on my website and app:
https://www.learnenglishplatform.com/speaking
You may also check the resources on this blog here:
https://learnenglishdailytips.com/resources/
Adapted from:
https://www.ef.com/wwen/blog/language/how-to-improve-your-spoken-english/
Here is an extract from the article:
1. Speak, speak, speak
Let’s start right off by saying that there isn’t a magic pill for better speaking. That would be too easy, right? Basically, the best way to speak better is to, well – speak! Commit to practicing often and with as many different people as possible. Do you already live or study overseas? Take advantage of the thousands of native speakers in your immediate community, such as your friends, their families, your coworkers, classmates, employees at the coffee shops, supermarket, post-office and other places you visit. If you’re learning in your own country, increase your practice time by meeting your classmates after class, finding an language exchange partner or joining an online community of learners.
2. Reflect on your conversations
After your conversation is over, take a moment to reflect. How did it go? How much do you think you understood? How comfortable did you feel with that subject matter? Did you encounter any unknown words? The mere act of thinking about it in this way will increase your confidence for the next time you speak (and give your targeted things to work on, for example vocabulary you didn’t understand).
3. Listen and read
