Speaking

Improve Spoken English online – Tips to learn English speaking

1. Improve English Speaking with others:

Many people spend years to learn English but they can not speak English. It is due to a common reason that the way they learn English.

In most schools and universities of non-English speaking countries, people are taught reading and grammar or writing  more than listening and speaking. This makes the ESL learners hard to open their mouth to speak English.

To avoid this problem, you yourself, the learners, must find your ways to practice speaking English.

- Join English speaking in your area: There is probably an English speaking club somewhere in your living communication, where people come together and practice to speak English, The good English people will help the weak English to improve their English, especially the speaking skill.

- Chat and Talk with people on the internet: There are many English Speaking communities that help you learn English speaking for free; such as yahoo Messenger chat, MSN chat, Google chat, ….. The best community I ever know is that paltalk. A big number of English learning rooms for English speaking practice with native English speakers and people who are good at English from other countries. All of these people are eager to help other learning English better.

2. Self -Speaking Practice: Think in English and Speak in English:

ESL learners usually translate their mother tongue into English when they speak. It takes time for them to conduct the smooth conversations. It sometimes even give them a problem because the listeners can not understand what they really mean.

Think in English:
This is a process which helps you get ready for words, sentence structures … that you use in your conversation. When you speak English, your ideas must come first, and the ideas must be arranged in English then you can speak out to listeners. You use your vocabulary grammar knowledge to make them in the understandable orders so you can present ( speak ).

Do this everyday – Everyday you pick some common structures and THINK about those. THINK of the situations that use those structures to communicate.

For example:

AT A CLOTHES SHOP:

A: Hi! Can I help you?
B: I am looking for a pair of jeans.
A: What color do you like?
B: Blue.

Pay attention to the sentence: ” I am looking for a pair of jeans “.  Replace “ a pair of jeans” with other words and THINK in your mind. Do it as many times as you can. And Do it EVERY DAY.

Do the same way to many different structures that will help you.

Also, you can practice this THINK in English, by translating the overheard talks/conversations in English, do it silently – THINK it in your mind. DO IT EVERY DAY.

Speak in English:
The Thinking process above gives the ready tool to use for your English Speaking. Use this tool whenever you have chance.

Get over any fear you might have of making mistakes. You will make mistakes.

Be patient with yourself. Learning any language can be frustrating, but frustration won’t help you, so let it go.

Grasp every opportunity you have to speak with people in English.

Talk to friends who are also learning English. Go out together for coffee and only speak English to each other!

I hope with all the above will help you improve your English Speaking.