Speak English Fluently with These Powerful Tips. 9 Ways to Improve Your Engish

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English Lessons with Kate


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In this video, I want to help you start speaking  English fluently. You will start speaking English  
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with confidence, and I promise that if you  follow these tips for at least a month,  
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your English will incredibly improve. Hello guys! My name is Kate. Today I’m  
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going to share with you 9 amazing tips to improve  your English and start speaking English fluently.
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Tip number 1. Surround yourself  with English. This means immerse  
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yourself in the English speaking  environment as much as possible.
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You can watch movies, listen to music,  podcasts, reading books in English. 
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The more you surround yourself with English,  the faster you start speaking English fluently. 
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Now let me tell you a story from  my life. A couple of years ago,  
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when I was teaching English online, there was  one student, the girl that I will never forget. 
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This person came to my class and when  she started speaking English to me,  
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my immediate thought was... Why is she in  my class? That's how good her English was. 
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Her pronunciation was amazing. Her vocabulary  was enormous. She spoke English perfectly. So I  
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asked her - Have you ever lived in an English  speaking country? Did you study in the US? 
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And she said No. I've never lived in an  English speaking country and I've never  
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studied abroad. "And immediately, I asked  her, 'How are you able to speak English so  
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well?' And you know what she told me?" She surrounded herself with English.  
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She did this. Watching YouTube videos, watching  English movies, joining English speaking online  
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communities, listening to English podcasts. So if you ask me is this possible? Yes. No  
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matter where you live, you can learn English  and you can improve your speaking skills. 
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Please remember this tip. When  you immerse yourself in English,  
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your English starts to improve and your ability to  speak starts to improve. I hope that makes sense. 
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Tip 2. Speak out loud. Speak out loud. It's important for you to  
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speak out loud, to practice out loud whenever  you can. You can describe your environment,  
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your everyday activities, you can describe  some situations from your life or just talk  
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to yourself in English. This will help you to  feel more comfortable when speaking English. It  
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will help you to make sentences in English  and organize your thoughts in your head. 
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So it doesn't matter where you are. While you're  sitting in your room, in your kitchen or maybe  
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in your car. Think about your activity and  describe it. Try to describe it right now.  
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Your goal is to use the language spontaneously  and express your own ideas, and it’s an amazing  
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tip to start saying whatever you want to say  and describing whatever you want to describe,  
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in English. So tip number two. Speak out loud. Tip number 3. Have conversations with  
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native English speakers. Talk with people who speak  
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English as their native language, as their first  language. Have conversations with them to improve  
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your English. This helps you understand how words  are used naturally. Native speakers can help you  
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correct your mistakes. When I started learning  Turkish, I met a friendly native speaker in a  
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language exchange group. He was studying Russian  and I was interested in learning Turkish. We  
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talked about our interests and hobbies. And I  practiced my Turkish, learned new expressions,  
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and gained confidence in speaking. It was  a great way to improve my language skills. 
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You can look for English speakers around  you or you can do it online. Join language  
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exchange groups or language learning apps. Even  chatting and typing back and forth is helpful  
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for your English fluency. Having conversations  when you send voice messages is also helpful.  
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Practice with friends, teachers, or  people in your community who speak  
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English. Have conversations with native speakers. Tip number 4. Write a Journal in English. 
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Write about your day, your thoughts, or anything  you like. It's a cool way to practice writing  
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and express yourself. For example, I love writing  things that I am grateful for. Try to do the same  
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in English. Describe the things you have in your  life using the English language. As you do that,  
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you will improve. Plus, you can look back and  see how much your English has improved over time. 
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A few months later, when you read your journal,  you'll see how your English writing has improved  
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since the beginning. So what do you have to do  to start speaking English fluently? You have  
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to focus on writing. And it doesn’t matter  if you don’t feel ready. If you understand  
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what I’m saying right now, that means you’re  ready. You have everything you need in your  
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brain to speak English fluently. Tip number 5. Record Yourself. 
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Record yourself speaking, and then listen  to the recording. This is an amazing tip,  
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guys. You can use your smartphone. Record  yourself. Say whatever you want to say. In  
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English. When you listen to yourself speaking, you  understand which areas you need to improve. Also,  
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this tip can help you see your progress over  time. After a while, when you listen to your  
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recorded voice, you'll notice how much your  speaking skills have improved since then. Give  
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it a try and let me know if this tip was helpful! Tip number 6. Memorize different English phrases  
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and use them in different contexts. To improve  your English fluency, learn different phrases  
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and use them in different situations. Start by  remembering common phrases and practice using them  
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when you talk or write. Let’s say you have learned  a common idiom that native English speakers say. 
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You can go to Youglish.com and type a phrase  here, so you will hear that phrase in different  
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contexts and you can understand it better.  For example, let’s type a phrase ‘to be on  
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the ball’. This phrase means to be very  attentive and focused. You can see this  
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phrase in different contexts. This helps you  use new words and phrases in the right way. 
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Tip number 7. Be consistent. It doesn’t  have to be like 8 hours a day. Sometimes  
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students don’t understand what the power of  consistency is. The power of consistency is  
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when you practice every day. You practice a  little bit every day. Speak English a little  
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bit every day. Have a conversation with someone  every day. Write something in English a little  
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bit every day. Even if it’s like for 10  minutes, that’s okay. Just do something  
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every day, and as you do that, you will improve. Tip number 8. Listen and imitate native speakers.  
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If you want to speak English fluently, if you want  to sound like a native English speaker, you need  
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to imitate them. Pronunciation is very important.  I am a non-native English teacher; I grew up in  
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a small town in Russia. And I used this tip to  improve my English, okay? I listened, I imitated,  
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and you know what happened? I started to speak  better and better over time. I have a video where  
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I've talked about different techniques on how to  imitate native speakers. I’ll leave a link here,  
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so you can watch it after watching this video. Now let’s get back to the point. Find a person,  
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a native English speaker, you enjoy listening  to, and imitate them. This tip will help you  
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become more confident because you'll think ‘Hey,  I can imitate that person and repeat after them so  
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that I know that I’m doing it just like a native  speaker would be doing it, okay? So I'm on the  
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right track. That's what I want to sound like.’  Tip number 8. Listen and imitate native speakers. 
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TIP number 9. Practice summarizing Sometimes it's very hard to express  
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an idea in a smaller phrase. Into a shorter  sentence. If you can take a large piece of  
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information and summarize it, tell it in simple  words, talking about the most important details,  
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the main idea, it will help you speak fluently in  English. Like any skill, summarizing gets better  
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with practice. If you can pick out important  information, it will enhance your speaking skills.
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Today I gave you 9 powerful tips to improve your  speaking skills. Do these things to become more  
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confident and fluent when speaking English.  If you can’t speak English fluently, it is  
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likely because you’re not doing these things. Thank you so much for watching this video. I  
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hope you enjoyed it. If you want  to make me a little bit happier,  
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you can send me a superthanks! Please join  me on Instagram! I’ve recently created a new  
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account and I need more followers, so please  support me there. Please don’t forget to click  
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like and subscribe to my channel if you haven’t  yet, and I’ll see you in my next video. Bye-bye.
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