How to SPEAK English FLUENTLY

If you’ve decided “I need to finally do  something about my speaking skills and  

I want to do it as soon as possible”,  Then forget about everything else but  

listening and actually speaking.Forget  about writing, reading and grammar.

To really develop or improve significantly or  master speaking you need to concentrate solely  

on speaking for some period of time and make time  for it. Let all of your time be spent on speaking. 

Obviously you can learn all of it together  - reading, writing but if you focus  

on just speaking you will have  a lot more progress in this one  

area in a much less amount of time than if  you were to spend it learning it all at once.

If you want improvements and you can’t  obtain them doing what you’re doing now,  

the following is logical - you need to switch  things up. Start doing things differently  

and this might be exactly the thing you need.

Plus I guarantee that by simply working on your  speaking skills you’ll boost your confidence,  

it’ll help you with vocabulary and a lot of  grammar rules are going to start to make sense.  

And all of these things are going  to happen organically and listening  

plays a very important part in this process. You have to listen to English a lot. Your brain  

accumulates data and lets you use it in  situations when it’s needed. By listening  

you’re getting used to the intonation and stress  patterns, to the proper ways of pronouncing words,  

to the proper ways of pronouncing the  sounds not mention the language per se.

One tip that I’d like to give  you based on my experience:  

Get out of your head. Don’t think about  sounding perfect or speaking like a native,  

don’t be afraid of making mistakes and  actually go for it. Let yourself make  

mistakes and suck. You’ll learn from them.  Just let all of this go and just practice.  

Just speak. When you actually practice  regularly improvement will inevitably follow.

So for starters all you will have to do is just  copy native speakers. Just repeat after them.  

pretty simple right? But I keep literally raving  about this because if you do it, if you really  

put in time and effort it really works. It’s one  of the best if not the best method there is to  

improve or perfect your speaking skills. Focus just on repeating what  

you hear and just on the context. It might be difficult at the beginning to repeat  

even one sentence without dropping words or making  mistakes. But it will get better and better. 

And this would be the second important thing -  make sure you repeat exactly what people say.  

So put on subtitles for starters for sure. If you work on this on your own then please  

record yourself because otherwise you might  not catch or even notice that you’re repeating  

not exactly what was being said. And you need to  be precise so as not to learn incorrect patterns. 

Do it for as long as you can and  as many times a day as you can.

Start with one sentence. Then more. And then you  can even repeat conversations. Doing this will  

allow you to understand and memorize what and  how to ask and answer in different situations.

First choose to repeat what you understand. If  you want to you can search for the meanings of  

unknown words. But your main focus should  be on speaking. A lot a lot of speaking.  

You need to get used to this process per se.  You need to get used to opening your mouth  

and producing English words and sentences.  And sometimes it might be really tiresome.

So something simple for starters. One line,  

one sentence, but you will be repeating it  for the whole day or perhaps even longer.

Accurate pronunciation is a very important  part of speaking and I want to recommend to you  

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an app that will help you improve your  pronunciation, intonation and fluency. 

This is the first of its kind app as it  pinpoints your pronunciation mistakes using  

cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology.

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ELSA Speak currently has 1,600+ lessons  and 40+ topics for you to practice and  

great community features for you to  learn from people all over the world. 

Community feature that allows you  to add your friends, colleagues  

and compete with a Leaderboard, as well as  

“Ask for help” byposting a word you’re struggling  with and having friends help you correct it. 

It also has an amazing dictionary that shows  you how to pronounce any words or phrases.

Now let’s proceed to the practicing part. Let’s say you’d like to practice some  

conversations. It’s going to be a  bit more advanced as you will hear  

one line and then you’ll need to read your line  out loud without prior hearing it and you get  

instant feedback on how you have  done, compared to a native speaker.

If you’ve mispronounced any words you can click  on them and see which sounds were incorrect  

and listen to how they are supposed to be  pronounced and practice them. Also you can  

click on “watch other people say this” and  watch how native speakers say this phrase.

So as you can see you can practice saying  whole sentences, separate words and even  

individual sounds and get instant  feedback compared to a native speaker. 

In addition you will be able to pick  up phrases and even sentences for  

daily communication and increase your vocabulary.

With this app, anyone can speak English.

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Then you can try to shadow native speakers. When we shadow we mostly focus on the accuracy  

of our pronunciation. However shadowing is  not only about improving your pronunciation,  

it’s also about getting used to speaking,  learning speaking patterns, the natural way  

of using the language and of course vocabulary. I have videos on shadowing and how to improve  

your speaking using it. Like we take scenes from  movies or TV series, break the pronunciation down  

and I show you how to practice. So if you don’t  know how to do this you can watch and use those.

You can mix business with pleasure and  copy your favorite YouTubers that you  

watch to learn English. You’ll  kill two birds with one stone. 

You’ll be repeating the useful information they  give while working on your speaking skills.

Just simply sitting by yourself and shadowing  and copying will be 70% of your success.

It’s that simple. But at the same time you’re  

going to have to discipline yourself  because you need to be consistent.

Because while having conversations with  other people is definitely something  

you need and they will help you  with your communication skills,  

developing your speaking skills is  a little bit of a different thing.

When you’re alone and shadowing or trying to  speak using your own words, you make all sorts  

of mistakes (grammar, pronunciation mistakes),  you correct them, say those words again and  

again until they come out easily and correctly. Repetition- this is how we learn. If you repeat  

something 50 times you’ll remember it. And that’s the whole point of this - be  

able to speak freely without even thinking. And you can most definitely do this with  

a teacher if you can’t do this on your  own, you just have to find the right one.

But unfortunately when you’re in a  conversation with someone you won’t  

interrupt it to correct your mistakes or say  a sentence a couple of times to get it right.

So as useful and important as both of  these things are, they aim for different  

goals. Thus we need both of them. Think of shadowing as a repetition  

before giving a performance. Actors do this, people before  

giving speeches or presentations do this. When we  were in school we’d always rehearse our rhymes or  

prepare and rehearse answers before exams. And  even when people are about to have important  

conversations or meetings they rehearse  or at least go over what they want to say.

And that’s why I’m saying that  this method will help you not  

just to speak English but speak English fluently. You’ll be repeating and learning at the same time  

because when you repeat something a lot of  times in a row you memorize it. You’ll be  

literally learning statements and questions, the  way native speakers naturally say or ask them  

and you’ll be able to recognise the situations  in which you can use them naturally. 

Moreover by doing this regularly you’ll be  able to express your own thoughts with ease.  

You’ll see! Needed words and expressions will pop  up in your head just like that and it’ll seem like  

sentences build by themselves and the language  just flows. And in terms of grammar you’ll be like  

native speakers, you’ll be like:- “well this is  the way I’m supposed to say it. I just know it.”

Now I’ve heard so many times people say “It feels  weird to talk to myself and I don’t have anyone to  

talk to”. Honestly nothing I say will help you if  you’ve already decided that you can’t do anything.  

It’s important to be in the right mindset. However  you can certainly use help in this process. 

You can work with teachers. You can find someone to talk to,  

to have real conversations and use everything  you’ve learned in the comments section under this  

video or under any video or post about English.  This way is very easy, effective and free.

You can use different websites for languages  exchange to speak with native speakers.

And you know Don’t stress yourself out with  difficult sentences and super smart words.  

You’re not an encyclopedia or a professor. Frankly  speaking people really appreciate simplicity.  

Just analyse yourself in your native language.  Do you feel comfortable talking to people who  

use super big words and terms? You don’t have  to prove anything to anyone but yourself. So  

just enjoy yourself. If you don’t enjoy speaking  English it’ll always feel like a burden.

If you’re having lessons with a teacher ask  them to switch the focus of your lessons to  

speaking but only in English. The  moment you cross the threshold of  

the classroom you forget about your  native language and use only English. 

It’s not going to be easy but  the results will be worth it.

So the point is to concentrate solely  on speaking for some period of time.  

It won’t be long until you see  huge improvements in your speech.  

It might slightly vary for each person  but you will undoubtably see them. 

You’ll be more relaxed about having  conversations and words will come out easier,  

you’ll stop translating in your head and  you’ll develop the feel for the language.

Now don’t forget to head down to the description  box and get your discount on the Elsa Speak app.  

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coach in your pocket 24/7. Hope you enjoyed  the video. And I’ll see you in the next one.