How to improve your speaking skills and find people to talk to in English

59,446 views ・ 2023-05-27

English with Veronika Mark


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hey guys and welcome back to my YouTube channel  today we're gonna talk about how to find new  
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people to speak English with sooner or later in  your language learning Journey you will start  
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feeling like you are ready to speak English  to a real human being I'm ready you're bored  
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of speaking English to yourself or not speaking  English at all and you would really love to start  
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speaking to people if you're not there yet don't  worry about it just keep on watching this video  
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and maybe you will learn a few useful tips you  might use in the future the First Resource is  
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cambly cambly is a platform where you can take  online English classes with native speakers and  
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cambly is actually one of the websites that I  started using a while back probably the first  
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time I use the app and the website was two years  ago I know that at the very beginning it might  
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feel a little bit scary to speak English in  person so taking online classes is a great  
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place to start on cambly you can take private  classes and speak to a tutor one-on-one or group  
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classes which is an amazing choice if you want to  meet new people a few days ago I took an English  
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class on cambly and now I want to tell you guys  how it went so first when I joined the call I was  
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a little nervous because I knew that I would have  to talk to you know new people a teacher and also  
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a couple of new students yeah so one channel is  about like self-improvement I talk about moving  
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abroad but then once we actually started talking  I just felt completely relaxed because everyone  
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was so nice and chill and just I love talking  to them our teacher was from the United States  
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and he used to work for Disney in the past so he  shared a lot of interesting stories with us and he  
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even recommended a movie to watch this one if you  have not watching this movie check it out it's an  
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amazing movie and there's also a book that you can  check out as well I have read the book before and  
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I loved it a lot my favorite part of the lesson  was the game we played called the vibe check which  
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was all about sharing our interesting stories so  because I live in Mexico I have to learn Spanish  
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because people here speak Spanish so a few days  ago I went to the doctor before you know going  
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there I decided to only use Spanish because it  was like I know my doctor speaks English but I  
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I can't like I I can't allow myself to continue  using English here and so I know that right now I  
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can recommend camley to you guys for an exclusive  price on group and one-on-one lessons make sure to  
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use my discount code Veronica groups this discount  code can also be used with a free trial and it's  
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only valid for one week so click the link in the  description and use my code to apply the discount  
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now the second resource you could check out is  social media this is a bit tricky but it might  
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work sometimes for example I often do live streams  on my Instagram page in English and I receive a  
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lot of questions from you guys so you could also  potentially start an Instagram page and do live  
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streams in English and this way you will be  meeting new people and speaking English to  
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them but if this is not something you want to do  you can also go to my Instagram page and watch my  
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Instagram live and there in the comments you will  see that there are some people who leave comments  
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and say that oh I'm looking for a language buddy  you know I'm looking for like a language speaking  
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partner would you like to talk to me again this  approach doesn't always work but you can check it  
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out if you love using Instagram or social media in  general other platforms where you can find English  
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Learners obviously include Twitter and Reddit  on Twitter when you type in English learning  
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you'll be able to find so many amazing resources  the same thing is true for Reddit you'll be able  
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to find a lot of nice subreddits ask questions and  maybe even meet interesting people the next reason  
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Source you could check out is different meetup  groups if you live in a big city there is a very  
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high chance that you will have like a Meetup a  language Exchange program like something like that  
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and it's extremely easy to find on the website  called meetup.com also if you go to Facebook and  
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again type in language Exchange in your city for  example language Exchange in Mexico City you'll  
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be able to find different groups that focus on  that this is actually something that I have used  
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a lot in the past and thanks to different Meetup  communities I got to meet so many different people  
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from different countries around the world I  even once went to a Meetup Group where people  
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only talked about Formula One it was all about F1  you know the drivers they're racist and obviously  
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everyone was speaking English and Resource number  four that you could check out is English speaking  
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clubs again it's extremely easy to find an  English-speaking Club if you want to attend  
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an English-speaking Club online all you need to  do is type in on Google you know English speaking  
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clubs online join and there are so many different  communities you'll be able to find this way also  
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of course I have my own English speaking club and  I talk about it all the time on my social media  
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and here on YouTube as well but something that I  love doing sometimes is attending speaking clubs  
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in person so if you are able to attend a speaking  Club you know in person and in person speaking  
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club that could be even better because interacting  one-on-one you know with a person might be pretty  
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scary but it is something that will help you a  lot in your language learning so now that we've  
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discussed different ways you can use to find new  people to speak English ways so now that we've  
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discussed different ways you can use to find new  people to speak English with let me just briefly  
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mention why practice is saying speaking in English  or in any other language is extremely important  
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first when you speak the language you improve your  pronunciation and it is impossible to improve your  
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pronunciation if you never speak it allows you to  hear and mimic the way others speak and this way  
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you can sound more natural the second reason is  that it builds your confidence a few days ago I  
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attended a networking event organized by Nick  Gray who published a book about organizing a  
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party in two hours and there I got to speak to  a lot of different people in English and that  
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really builds your confidence because you had to  practice a little bit of public speaking right or  
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just speaking to each individual person but still  it is difficult it is scary but it is so useful  
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reason number three is it helps you enhance your  vocabulary again during the same networking event  
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my friend was trying to tell me that this guy Nick  was really pronouncing every single word clearly  
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so you can say that this person enunciates words  well when they speak so when you talk to people  
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in real life you learn new Expressions a lot  faster because usually this is the expression  
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you need right now and that is story connected  to this happened to me a few days ago when I  
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had to go to a dentist appointment and there I  had to learn the word bite and teeth in Spanish  
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because I hadn't known those words before so it  was interesting because now I remember these words  
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so well and I know that it will take me quite  some time to forget them and hopefully I will  
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not forget them reason number four why speaking  is important is that it improves your listening  
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skills talking to a real person in real life  is completely different from watching a YouTube  
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video or a movie because first off you don't have  subtitles using subtitles is totally okay and the  
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last reason is that when you speak to new people  you are exchanging cool things about each other's  
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cultures and this is always so interesting this  is probably my favorite thing about speaking to  
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new people from different countries language and  culture are closely connected so when you speak to  
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a new person in English for example and they're  from a completely different country you get to  
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practice your English but you also get to know  more cool things about their culture so I think  
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it's going to be it for this video thank you guys  so much for watching I hope now you understand how  
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important it is to improve your speaking skills  and also now you know what resources you can  
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use to do that also if you would like to check  out cambly and practice speaking English with  
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native speakers and other students make sure to  click the link and a description and if you want  
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to continue watching more videos from me about  speaking English don't forget to click on this  
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playlist thank you guys so much for watching this  video and I'll see you in my next one foreign
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