You know, one question I am asked all too often is โHow can I speak English fluently?โ.
Well, I have to say there is no easy answer to this question; learning any skill takes time and dedication.
However, there are some things you can do to help yourself progress faster. The best way of all is to learn withย aย qualified native English teacher such as here at MyEnglishTeacher.eu, but if this option is not suitable for you at the moment, then you can try the tips I am about to reveal.
1. Forget grammar!
Thatโs right. This may seem strange to you, but it is very important.
If you are preparing for an examination, then you should study grammar. However, if you want to become fluent in English conversation, then you should try to learn English without thinking about grammar too much.
The reason why I say this is that to become fluent, you need to be able to speak without pausing to think of the correct words and sentence construction.
If you are constantly trying to translate what you want to say from your own language into English, whilst thinkingย about all theย grammar rules youโre supposed to be using, youโll most likely become bogged down, hesitant and fail in your fluency goal.
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2. Learn natural phrases or โchunksโ you can adapt for any situation!
What you need to do is to learn and study phrases instead of trying to speak in sentences.
You may be familiar withย a large range of vocabulary, but are probably not able to create fluid conversation (natural flowing speech). This could be because you fail to recognise the differences between spoken and written English, one of which is that when speaking, people use phrases instead of sentences.
The most important thing for you to improve the fluency of your speech, is to learn English in phrases or โchunksโ of language, instead of memorising grammar rules and so on.
To explain what I mean, think of these โchunksโ of language as ready-made phrases you can remember by using them often.
These include collocations (words that commonly go together) such as โrich and famous, densely populated, keep a secret, break a promiseย or take a seatโ; phrasal verbs such as โget up, log on, run out ofโ;ย idioms like โpart and parcel, make ends meetโ,ย and social formulas such as โsee you later, have a nice dayโ and so on.
It is easy to see why it may be difficult forย studentsย to achieveย fluency in English. In traditional classroom-teaching methods, grammar is generally taught as a priority, not these language โchunksโ which students can use almost instantly in conversation.
So what can you do? The best thing is to find native English speakers you canย converse with, either in person or on the Net. Preferably someone who is qualified to help English learners, such as at MyEnglishTeacher.euย orย Kaplan English language courses.ย But if not, then there are many websites where you can find natives to practice with.
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What you then need to do is NOT to ask them to explain grammar rules, but to listen and take note of the many phrases they will use during your conversations. Listen and repeat, itโs that simpleโฆ.good luck!
I was facing problems in speaking English fluently. After reading your article I am following your tips. And the number of my problems in speaking English is decreasing day by day
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all of these tips will help me. my most important problem is speaking.ฤฑ will try all these. thank you so much.
Hello Anastasia! My name is Usha. I am an university student but i can not speak English fluently. I have been stuck while speaking English. I agree with many of the points in this article. Such a useful topic for many. From your article i come to know many important points. I will try to follow these mentioned points. Thank you so much for informative blogโฆ
Thank you Usha!
Let me know how it goes. Do you have people / person to practice with?
Hey Usha check out this article also it will give you some idea about how to become more fluent in English HERE
Nice information. More focus on speaking and less on grammar can help you fast. here is a list of the
Best English Speaking Institute in Delhi.
Hello Anastasia! My name is Nahid. From Asia Azerbaijan. I am an engineer at the construction. It is very important to me learning the English languages. Because most of my colleagues were foreigners. And its very difficult to me to talk with them. I wont to learn this languages but i can not speak English fluently.
All the information in here a useful topic for many peoples. Iโm a long time looking for it. Itโs very it was very pleasant to me. Thank you so much for all and Thank you for sharing
Thank you very much Nahid! Iโm so glad we could help you.
Please let me know if you havea any questions, Iโm here for you!
I really appreciate this post. thank you , Anastasia!
Glad to help!
Thank you!
Sure, always glad to help you! โค๏ธ
Thanks for tips!
Of course!
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Your blog post is very inspiring. We are a group of people who study Raj Spoken English class in bhilai Durg. In this covid 19 lockdown where we are not getting any more people from home, we practice our English in Google Meet. Here you have got a lot of good information from your post, today I will mention it to my friends and I will also tell you about my blog thank you once again for such a good inspirational post.
Thank you too!
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Great Tips. Thanks, Anastasia Koltai waiting for the latest post.
Thank you so much. Iโm grateful to you
I totally agree with you. Linguistic fluency is nothing more than simply communicating freely in a foreign language in everyday situations.