Tips to Improve your English Speaking





Here are Some Simple tips to Improve Your English Speaking:
1) Of course, the best way is to immerse yourself in a native speaking environment and engage in as many interactions as you can. Shyness shouldn't be an excuse, and keep in mind that the more you speak the less shy you'll feel as you become accustomed to speaking.
2) Listen to a variety of English programs and English accents. This will train your listening skills and you will also learn different English expressions. Better yet if you can record these programs, play them back, listen and take notes. Then, you can practice saying these expressions.
3) Also record your own speaking voice. In this way, you'll get a much better idea about how you speak. Is your speaking pace natural sounding, or too slow or too fast and if your pronunciation is clear, your grammar is accurate and your vocabulary is appropriate or if you need to work on any or all of these.
4) Speaking of pronunciation, reading out loud is a very good practice to help you get better at this. You can also record and re-play. And if you hear anything that you don't understand, pronounce and record again. Listen again to hear if you can now understand what you've said. If there is a chance that you don't know how to pronounce any words, you can look them up on www.dictionary.com, where there is a listening option for words. Please keep in mind that www.dictionary.com is an American site, therefore the pronunciation is going to be in a Standard American accent. It doesn't mean that the ways other native speakers pronounce the words are wrong, for example those native speakers with a British accent.
5) If you don't have access to any native, English speakers for conversation, you can practice speaking to yourself aloud. While it is true that this isn't quite as motivational as actually speaking with someone, it can serve as a temporary fix while you're looking to connect somehow with natives. One suggestion for meeting people is to join community activities, clubs and/or attend events. And if you tell people that you're looking to connect with natives because you'd like to improve your English and want to immerse yourself in the culture, there are very few people who wouldn't be happy to help you.
6)If you’re particularly shy and unconfident, you should practice speaking out loud in front of a mirror. And if you have a presentation that’s due, you should give it a trial run in front of someone who can act as an audience for you so that you can get a feeling of what it will be like on your actual speaking day, and they can give you honest feedback on how they think you did.
Good luck and let me know how it goes!!!

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