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

hey guys and welcome back to my YouTube channel  today we're gonna talk about how to find new  

people to speak English with sooner or later in  your language learning Journey you will start  

feeling like you are ready to speak English  to a real human being I'm ready you're bored  

of speaking English to yourself or not speaking  English at all and you would really love to start  

speaking to people if you're not there yet don't  worry about it just keep on watching this video  

and maybe you will learn a few useful tips you  might use in the future the First Resource is  

cambly cambly is a platform where you can take  online English classes with native speakers and  

cambly is actually one of the websites that I  started using a while back probably the first  

time I use the app and the website was two years  ago I know that at the very beginning it might  

feel a little bit scary to speak English in  person so taking online classes is a great  

place to start on cambly you can take private  classes and speak to a tutor one-on-one or group  

classes which is an amazing choice if you want to  meet new people a few days ago I took an English  

class on cambly and now I want to tell you guys  how it went so first when I joined the call I was  

a little nervous because I knew that I would have  to talk to you know new people a teacher and also  

a couple of new students yeah so one channel is  about like self-improvement I talk about moving  

abroad but then once we actually started talking  I just felt completely relaxed because everyone  

was so nice and chill and just I love talking  to them our teacher was from the United States  

and he used to work for Disney in the past so he  shared a lot of interesting stories with us and he  

even recommended a movie to watch this one if you  have not watching this movie check it out it's an  

amazing movie and there's also a book that you can  check out as well I have read the book before and  

I loved it a lot my favorite part of the lesson  was the game we played called the vibe check which  

was all about sharing our interesting stories so  because I live in Mexico I have to learn Spanish  

because people here speak Spanish so a few days  ago I went to the doctor before you know going  

there I decided to only use Spanish because it  was like I know my doctor speaks English but I  

I can't like I I can't allow myself to continue  using English here and so I know that right now I  

can recommend camley to you guys for an exclusive  price on group and one-on-one lessons make sure to  

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now the second resource you could check out is  social media this is a bit tricky but it might  

work sometimes for example I often do live streams  on my Instagram page in English and I receive a  

lot of questions from you guys so you could also  potentially start an Instagram page and do live  

streams in English and this way you will be  meeting new people and speaking English to  

them but if this is not something you want to do  you can also go to my Instagram page and watch my  

Instagram live and there in the comments you will  see that there are some people who leave comments  

and say that oh I'm looking for a language buddy  you know I'm looking for like a language speaking  

partner would you like to talk to me again this  approach doesn't always work but you can check it  

out if you love using Instagram or social media in  general other platforms where you can find English  

Learners obviously include Twitter and Reddit  on Twitter when you type in English learning  

you'll be able to find so many amazing resources  the same thing is true for Reddit you'll be able  

to find a lot of nice subreddits ask questions and  maybe even meet interesting people the next reason  

Source you could check out is different meetup  groups if you live in a big city there is a very  

high chance that you will have like a Meetup a  language Exchange program like something like that  

and it's extremely easy to find on the website  called meetup.com also if you go to Facebook and  

again type in language Exchange in your city for  example language Exchange in Mexico City you'll  

be able to find different groups that focus on  that this is actually something that I have used  

a lot in the past and thanks to different Meetup  communities I got to meet so many different people  

from different countries around the world I  even once went to a Meetup Group where people  

only talked about Formula One it was all about F1  you know the drivers they're racist and obviously  

everyone was speaking English and Resource number  four that you could check out is English speaking  

clubs again it's extremely easy to find an  English-speaking Club if you want to attend  

an English-speaking Club online all you need to  do is type in on Google you know English speaking  

clubs online join and there are so many different  communities you'll be able to find this way also  

of course I have my own English speaking club and  I talk about it all the time on my social media  

and here on YouTube as well but something that I  love doing sometimes is attending speaking clubs  

in person so if you are able to attend a speaking  Club you know in person and in person speaking  

club that could be even better because interacting  one-on-one you know with a person might be pretty  

scary but it is something that will help you a  lot in your language learning so now that we've  

discussed different ways you can use to find new  people to speak English ways so now that we've  

discussed different ways you can use to find new  people to speak English with let me just briefly  

mention why practice is saying speaking in English  or in any other language is extremely important  

first when you speak the language you improve your  pronunciation and it is impossible to improve your  

pronunciation if you never speak it allows you to  hear and mimic the way others speak and this way  

you can sound more natural the second reason is  that it builds your confidence a few days ago I  

attended a networking event organized by Nick  Gray who published a book about organizing a  

party in two hours and there I got to speak to  a lot of different people in English and that  

really builds your confidence because you had to  practice a little bit of public speaking right or  

just speaking to each individual person but still  it is difficult it is scary but it is so useful  

reason number three is it helps you enhance your  vocabulary again during the same networking event  

my friend was trying to tell me that this guy Nick  was really pronouncing every single word clearly  

so you can say that this person enunciates words  well when they speak so when you talk to people  

in real life you learn new Expressions a lot  faster because usually this is the expression  

you need right now and that is story connected  to this happened to me a few days ago when I  

had to go to a dentist appointment and there I  had to learn the word bite and teeth in Spanish  

because I hadn't known those words before so it  was interesting because now I remember these words  

so well and I know that it will take me quite  some time to forget them and hopefully I will  

not forget them reason number four why speaking  is important is that it improves your listening  

skills talking to a real person in real life  is completely different from watching a YouTube  

video or a movie because first off you don't have  subtitles using subtitles is totally okay and the  

last reason is that when you speak to new people  you are exchanging cool things about each other's  

cultures and this is always so interesting this  is probably my favorite thing about speaking to  

new people from different countries language and  culture are closely connected so when you speak to  

a new person in English for example and they're  from a completely different country you get to  

practice your English but you also get to know  more cool things about their culture so I think  

it's going to be it for this video thank you guys  so much for watching I hope now you understand how  

important it is to improve your speaking skills  and also now you know what resources you can  

use to do that also if you would like to check  out cambly and practice speaking English with  

native speakers and other students make sure to  click the link and a description and if you want  

to continue watching more videos from me about  speaking English don't forget to click on this  

playlist thank you guys so much for watching this  video and I'll see you in my next one foreign