11 EFFECTIVE WAYS TO OVERCOME YOUR FEAR OF SPEAKING ENGLISH

Have you ever been afraid to speak English?

You know, that nervousness that comes over you when someone walks up to you

and asks you a question in English.

Have you ever experienced.

This feeling if so today, I'm going to give you 11 techniques

to help you overcome this fear.

Are you ready?

Well, then I'm teacher Tiffani.

Let's jump right in technique.

Number one focused on communication rather than perfection.

I'll say it again because it's so important.

Focus on communication rather than perfection.

You see this technique emphasizes the importance of getting your

message across rather than worrying about speaking flawlessly.

And one of my previous lessons, I mentioned that it's okay to make mistakes.

And this technique is.

Emphasizes that same point.

You have to focus on communicating your idea, your thought, or your opinion,

instead of focusing on each and every word that you're saying and making

sure that your mistakes are not that bad or that your grammar is perfect.

Focus on communication rather than perfection.

We're talking about.

Letting go of your fears.

Now, there are three reasons why this is so important.

Here's the first reason this will reduce anxiety and help you speak more freely.

Many times when you would feel that, that fear coming over you and that

nervousness and that anxiety, it's because you don't want to make a mistake.

Let that go and you'll experience freedom from anxiety.

Reason number two, you'll learn faster by actively using the

language, even with mistakes.

Again, when you stop worrying about mistakes, you'll start speaking

more freely and you'll actually start to improve because you'll

be using what you have learned.

And reason number three.

It builds your confidence as you successfully communicate your ideas.

When you focus on communicating, rather than perfection, when you focus on

getting your thoughts out, instead of making sure each and every word is in

the right place, you'll actually be able to feel more confident in yourself.

You'll feel confident because people will start understanding what you want to say.

So technique number one is focus on communicating and not on perfecting.

Communication over perfection.

You got me.

Excellent.

All right, here we go.

Technique number two technique.

Number two is practice positive self talk and affirmations.

Now this technique is something you've probably noticed that I use in each

and every one of my video lessons.

My goal is to.

It's to help you speak English with confidence.

So in each video, not only do I want to teach you English, not only do I

want to help you understand certain expressions and terms, I actually really

want you to be confident in yourself.

So I always remind you that you're intelligent.

You are learning another language.

Your brain is amazing.

Why?

Because positive self talk and affirmations.

Will help you release your fear.

You see, it's important for you to use encouraging words and phrases to

boost your confidence and motivation in learning English, there are three

specific reasons why this technique works so well, the first reason is it

helps you overcome negative thoughts that may hinder your progress.

Listen, I've been where you are.

When I was studying Korean, it was very difficult.

And there were moments when I would hear a voice in my head

saying, ah, this is too hard.

You keep making mistakes.

Ah, this negative voice.

Is going to be present, but you have to stop it again by speaking to

yourself in a positive way, reminding yourself, Hey, you've come a long way.

You're intelligent.

You are smart enough to learn this language.

Reason number two, positive self talk can improve your overall learning attitude.

When you remind yourself that you can do it the next time, a new term It's brought

to you the next time you hear something that you've never heard before, instead

of feeling dejected, instead of feeling depressed, you'll say to yourself, ah, I

was smart enough to learn the last term.

I'm smart enough to learn this.

And reason number three, it reinforces your belief in your ability to master

the language, exactly what I just said before, you have to speak to yourself in

a positive way, don't put yourself down when you make a mistake, remind yourself.

It's okay.

I'm on this journey.

I can do it.

Affirm yourself and speak positively to yourself.

We're talking about overcoming your fears and finally speaking

English with confidence.

Technique number three, this technique is also very important.

Start with small achievable speaking goals.

I'll say this one again, start with small achievable speaking goals.

You see, it's important for you to set manageable objectives for

your English speaking practice.

Gradually increasing difficulty over time.

Let me be honest with you.

What happens sometimes is that English learners will set very high goals.

It's very good to set goals for yourself.

But for example, I want to learn a thousand English

vocabulary words in five days.

Now it's a good goal to learn 1000 English vocabulary words, but

five days, that's a bit too much.

Short, right?

You have a life you're working, you have family.

So it's important to set smaller achievable goals, because when you set

these large goals and don't achieve them, you suddenly start to feel down.

You start to experience this fear when you go to speak, because you

weren't able to achieve other goals.

So it's important to set small achievable goals.

And as time goes on, you increase those goals.

Here are three reasons why this technique is so important.

It prevents overwhelm and keeps you motivated.

You won't be overwhelmed by the 1000 words.

You have to learn in five days and you'll stay motivated because you'll

be achieving each of your goals.

Reason number two, you'll build confidence as you consistently come on

now, consistently achieve your goals.

It's amazing what happens to you when you do what you said you would do.

I'll say that again.

It's amazing.

What will happen to you when you do what you say you will do.

This builds confidence reason.

Number three, it allows you to track your progress more effectively, writing

out your small achievable goals and checking each and every one off the list.

Technique number four, again, effective ways to overcome your fears.

Record yourself speaking and listen back to track your progress.

Now we talked about this in one of the previous lessons.

The importance of recording yourself, whether it be a video or an audio clip,

and then going back and listening to yourself, use audio or video recordings to

monitor your speaking skills and identify.

Areas for improvement.

This will help you overcome your fears because you're recognizing

the points at which you struggle.

The patterns, the words, expressions that really cause

you to feel a bit uncomfortable.

Here are three reasons why this technique is so powerful.

Reason number one.

It helps you become aware of your pronunciation and intonation.

Many times, English learners, and maybe even you experience fear because

they feel like the individual they're speaking with will not understand them.

Maybe they have a stronger accent.

Maybe they feel like their pronunciation isn't that good.

In order to remove that fear, record yourself and then

review what you recorded.

Okay.

And you'll start to improve your pronunciation.

Reason number two, you can track your progress over time and

celebrate going back to affirmations, celebrate your improvements.

And finally, it allows you to practice self correction and develop a critical

ear, recognizing your mistakes and correcting them before you get into a

conversation technique, number five.

Practice speaking in front of a mirror to build confidence.

I absolutely love this one.

Getting in front of a mirror and talking to yourself, it's going to feel odd.

It's going to feel weird and awkward in the very beginning, but it works.

One of my students in the speak English with Tiffani Academy told me that Tiff.

I stand in front of my mirror and my husband says, you look crazy, but

my English is improving and I said, keep standing in front of the mirror.

So again, this is a very powerful technique.

You use a mirror to observe your English.

Facial expressions and your body language while speaking English.

And you'll be able to self correct.

Here are three reasons why this is so powerful.

Reason number one, it helps you become more comfortable with

how you look while speaking.

When you can see yourself, you'll be able to recognize, ah, when I say

certain things, this is how I move.

Let me change this.

Let me adjust a bit.

Reason number two, it helps you practice maintaining.

Eye contact and confident posture.

This is powerful.

Again, it helps you practice this eye contact and keeping

your posture in the right way.

Eye contact is powerful.

If all of a sudden, for those watching this lesson on YouTube, if all of a

sudden, I kind of looked away for the entire lesson and you didn't know what was

going on, you'd feel a little bit awkward.

Now, when I look at my screen, as I'm teaching you, I always make sure to come

back to you and give you eye contact because eye contact is important when

you're speaking to, or with someone.

Reason number three, again, speaking in front of a mirror is important because

it allows you to focus your mouth movements for better pronunciation.

You notice that right again, for those watching, you notice I slowed down and

you saw my mouth moving in a specific way.

You can watch your mouth movements when you practice in front of a mirror.

Technique number five, let's move on now to technique number six technique.

Number six is view errors as a natural part of the learning process, rather

than something to be feared or avoided.

This technique is.

Embrace mistakes as learning opportunities.

Again, embrace mistakes as learning opportunities.

This is something we spoke about two or three lessons ago.

Our entire lesson was about.

Mistakes.

It's okay to make mistakes.

Here are the three reasons why this technique is important.

It reduces anxiety about making mistakes, which allows you to speak more freely.

When you're not worried about mistakes, you won't experience any fear.

You'll just start talking.

Reason number two.

You'll learn more effectively by analyzing and correcting your errors.

Again, you'll learn more effectively by analyzing and correcting.

Hey, I made that mistake.

Let me understand why.

Ah, now let me correct my mistake.

Fear gone.

Reason number three, it fosters a growth mindset, essential for long

term language learning success.

You're focusing on improving yourself by allowing yourself to make mistakes.

Technique number seven, prepare and practice common

phrases for various situations.

First word again, prepare, you see, learn and rehearse frequently used expressions

and sentences for different contexts.

When you keep a notebook, we talked about journaling in one

of our previous lessons as well.

When you keep a notebook and you write down new phrases you've learned, or

these common phrases and expressions used in real life, and then practice them.

When you're alone in front of your mirror, when you're recording yourself, then

when you get to an actual conversation, your brain says, ah, we've practiced

this before let's use these expressions.

Here are the three reasons why this technique is so powerful.

Reason number one, it builds your confidence in handling

everyday conversations.

It's all about confidence.

This is why as an English teacher, I focus so much on

helping you feel more confident.

My friend, listen, you know, a lot, you've studied tons of books.

I'm going to leave that in there.

You've taken many courses.

You know, a lot now it's time for you to use what you've

learned in a confident way.

Reason number two, you'll be able to respond more quickly and

naturally in common situations.

When you practice ahead of time, reason number three, it helps you expand your

vocabulary and improve your fluency.

The more you practice, the more you'll be able to use these

expressions and words in real life.

Technique number eight, gradually expose yourself to more

challenging speaking scenarios.

Listen, if you don't want to be afraid, if you want to feel prepared,

you have to practice ahead of time.

So again, you have to expose yourself to more challenging speaking scenarios.

In other words, progressively engage in more complex or intimidating

English speaking situations, those situations that normally would

cause you to pull back instead.

Now go directly into those conversations, make an effort.

Don't be afraid of making mistakes.

Why is this technique so important?

Reason number one.

It helps you build resilience and adaptability in your language use.

You can do it, believe in yourself.

Reason number two, you'll expand your comfort zone and improve

your overall communication skills.

You'll get better the more you are stretched.

And reason number three, it prepares you for real life

situations where you'll need to use.

English, this technique is going to help you a lot because it's going to

show you just how good you can be.

Technique number nine, set realistic expectations for

your language learning journey.

Now this ties into our earlier technique where you have to

set small achievable goals.

Now we're talking about setting realistic expectations.

Earlier, I mentioned.

Trying to learn 1000 English vocabulary words in five days,

that's not really realistic.

You might be able to memorize them, but using them.

So again, understand that language learning is a gradual process and

avoid setting on realistic goals.

My friend, please set goals, but make them realistic.

If you're working, if you have a family, if you're busy, make goals that actually

can be integrated into your life.

Here's why this is so important reason number one, it prevents frustration

and helps maintain your motivation.

For the longterm, when you set achievable, realistic goals, reason number two,

you'll appreciate your progress more when you have realistic benchmarks.

Ah, okay.

I learned two words today.

Great.

Tomorrow I'm going to learn two words.

Excellent.

And I'll remember the words I learned yesterday.

Reason number three, it allows you to enjoy the learning

process without undue pressure.

Again, it allows you to enjoy the process without this extra

pressure, set realistic goals.

We're talking about techniques that will help remove fear from

your English experience technique.

Number 10, celebrate small victories and progress in your speaking skills.

Listen, this goes back to affirmations and positive self talk celebrate yourself.

Listen, I can celebrate you, but I also want you to celebrate yourself.

Acknowledge and reward yourself for improvements, no matter how small

they may seem, I get it again.

I understand where you are.

I was studying Korean and I also had a hard time encouraging myself and reminding

myself, Hey, Tiff, you're doing good.

Hey, Tiff, you've achieved a lot.

I want you to celebrate your small victories.

Reason number one, it boosts your motivation and encourages

you to keep practicing.

Don't stop.

You got this move forward.

Reason number two, you'll develop a positive association with

learning and using English.

There's going to be this positive feeling, this happy feeling, this good feeling.

As you study English and reason number three, it helps build your confidence

and resilience in the face of challenges.

When you're constantly encouraging yourself, reminding yourself that, Hey,

you're doing a good job, celebrating your small victories when challenging

situations arise, when you are faced with a very difficult expression or

word, you won't feel dejected or sad.

You tell yourself, Hey.

I can do this.

This is why the technique is so important.

Technique number 11, engage in regular, listen closely, self reflection on

your language learning progress.

Sometimes it's good to just stop.

And look over your journey, where you've come from, where you are,

things you've enjoyed learning, things that have helped you the most people

that have helped you on your journey.

Stop.

And reflect periodically, assess your strengths, weaknesses, and overall

advancement in English speaking.

See how far you have come.

Why is this so important?

Reason number one, again, to remove the fear that is attached to English at times.

It helps you identify areas that need more focus or different learning strategies.

We are all different.

We're all unique as human beings.

Your learning style might not be the same as your friends learning style.

And as you reflect on your journey, you'll recognize which strategies

work and also which areas might need different strategies.

Reason number two, you'll gain a clearer understanding of your learning

style and what works best for you.

Reason number three, it allows you to set more targeted and effective

goals for future improvement.

You see how these techniques are all intertwined.

When you reflect on your journey, you'll be able to set more achievable goals.

You'll be able to encourage yourself and have positive self talk because

you know, where you've come from and where you're trying to go.

This technique is powerful.

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