ENGLISH FLUENCY SECRETS | 5 THINGS THAT WILL HELP YOU SPEAK ENGLISH FASTER

Hey, in today's lesson I'm gonna tell you five things.

Five things that will help you speak English faster.

Your goal is to speak English fluently, and that's what this

lesson is going to help you do.

Are you ready?

Well, then I'm teacher Tiffani, let's jump right in.

Now, the very first tip is this one.

Believe that you can do it one more time.

Believe that you can do it.

This is so important as you're studying English as you're going

along your journey, you are learning many new things, but you must first

believe that it's possible and you see when you believe that you can.

This will help you have more confidence when you start speaking English.

Think about it.

You learn something new.

You encounter a native English speaker, and all of a sudden you freeze up.

You get nervous.

Why?

Because you're not sure you can do it.

So you must remember that the first thing you have to do is

believe that you can do it.

Another reason why this is so important is because when you believe, when

you, my friend, believe that you can.

You won't get discouraged.

If you make a mistake along your English journey, you are going to make mistakes.

It's a fact.

Even native English speakers, when we speak English, we make mistakes,

and I'm sure in your own language you make mistakes sometimes as well.

So when you believe that it's possible, when you believe that you can speak

English fluently and that you will achieve your goals, what will happen?

You'll stop worrying about mistakes.

You won't beat yourself up, you won't get discouraged.

Believe that you can do it.

Also, when you believe that you can do it, your negative thoughts about your

English ability will start to fade away.

Listen, I'm your English teacher and I love teaching you new

English words, expressions and ideas, and how to organize your.

But one thing that I also love doing is helping you change your mindset.

When you believe in yourself, again, your negative thoughts saying, oh, you're

not as good as this person, or, oh, you made a mistake, or, oh, dot, dot, dot,

those negative thoughts will fade away.

The first thing you have to do is simply believe that you can do it.

I believe in.

That's why I teach you English.

That's why I'm so passionate about helping you achieve your

goals because I believe in you.

Now you have to believe in yourself.

So number one, believe that you can do it.

The second thing is also very important.

Practice in the mirror.

Once again, practice in the mirror.

Now, I love this one because maybe you are currently living in a

country and in your country there are no native English speaker.

So sometimes it gets a little bit overwhelming when you're trying to

practice, but there's no one around you.

Oh, but my friend, practicing in front of the mirror will change your English.

You see?

Practicing in the mirror will help you be less nervous when you speak to others.

There's something that happens psychologically when you

look in the mirror and you practice speaking in English.

You are watching yourself.

You see how you're presenting yourself, and it will actually

help you speak English better.

So again, it will help you stop being nervous when you speak English to others.

Another thing that will help you is.

When you practice in front of a mirror, you will gain more confidence

in your ability to speak English.

You see, as you look at yourself in the mirror as you're speaking

English, you're actually going to realize how much you know.

You're gonna say, wow, I'm not that bad.

Wow, I am speaking English.

Wow.

I can do anything You see by practicing in the.

You'll start gaining more confidence.

Again, this is going to help you speak English more fluently.

This will also help you be more aware of your posture when you speak English.

Body language is important.

For example, as you're watching this video lesson, right?

I'm teaching you English.

I'm using my hands.

I look confident as I speak to you.

Imagine if my posture changed and I started by saying, Hey, um, I'm gonna help

you with your English all of a sudden.

You start to feel a little bit uncomfortable.

Hey, wait a minute, Tiffani doesn't look as confident as she normally

does when she's teaching English to me, your posture makes a difference.

So when you speak to someone in English, you wanna make sure your shoulders

are back, you're proud of what you're saying, you're confident in yourself.

And when you practice in the mirror, you'll start fixing.

Your posture.

Listen, you can do it.

Number one again, believe you can do it.

Number two, practice in the mirror.

All of these things are gonna help you improve your English fluency.

Now, number three, I like number three.

Here's number three, learn and teach one new thing every single.

That's right.

You heard me, right?

Learn and teach one new thing every single day.

Now, let me explain why this is so important when I say learn and teach

one new thing every single day.

You as an English learner, first of all, you are amazing.

You're intelligent, you're learning another language, and every single day

you are being exposed to something new.

As I'm teaching you, you hear new words and expressions.

Something's in my eye.

, you hear new words and expressions that maybe you've never heard before, right?

Those new words, those new expressions, those new ideas.

You're writing them down in your notebook.

As soon as you learn them, think of someone you can teach them to.

Let's say, for example, the word you learned today was scrumptious.

I taught my students this word scrumptious.

It means, ooh, extremely delicious.

Extremely delicious.

Now, After you learn that word, find someone, find someone to teach the word.

Two, you learned a new word, now it's time to teach it.

Do this one time every single day and your English will improve fast.

Now I wanna give you a few more reasons, but as I said,

scrumptious, I realized that you might want to learn with me as well.

I have a totally free newsletter, so in the link.

In the link, you'll see a link to my newsletters totally free, and three

times a week I send an email with English Tips helping you improve your English.

So if you enjoy my YouTube lessons, if you enjoy my podcast, all you have to do is

click the link in the description again.

Speak English with Tiffani.com/newsletter and I'll start sending it to

you totally for free so that you can continue learning with me.

Now again, the third tip I mentioned to you was right here again.

Learn and teach one new thing every single day.

By doing this, it will enforce what you learned.

When you teach somebody the word scrumptious, what's gonna happen?

Ooh.

The next time you go out to eat and someone places a plate of food

in front of you, you take a bite.

Woo.

This is scrumptious.

Why?

Because you learned it and then you taught it to someone else.

So it's going to be at the forefront of your.

Again, it reinforces what you learn.

This will also help you remember what you learned faster.

When you get into an English conversation, you know what I'm talking about, right?

Sometimes you get into a conversation and someone asks you something

in English and all of a sudden, Your mind goes blank, woo.

I don't, I don't know what to say.

But when you learn and teach someone every single day, that word, that

expression, that idea will pop into your mind very quickly when you go

to have an English conversation.

And finally, this will also, I wanna put this one on the screen for you as well.

This will also boost your confidence in your ability to.

English.

Think about it.

If you're able to not only learn something, but break it down in

a way that someone else that's learning English can understand you.

Talk about a confidence booster.

Wait a minute, I really do understand this.

So again, when you learn and teach one new thing every single day, it will boost

your confidence in your ability to speak.

This is the third thing you must do if you want to speak

English faster and fluently now.

Number four, this tip is also very, very important.

You need to answer the five Ws at the end of your day.

Again, answer the five Ws at the end of your day.

Now you've been studying with me for a while, so you know the five Ws, right?

Say them with me.

You ready?

What, when, where, and why exactly The five Ws.

So at the end of the day, think about your day.

Who were you with?

What did you do?

Where did you go?

Why did you go there?

Think about all of these things and answer each of the five W's.

Now, why is this?

By doing this, it will help you think in English throughout your day.

It's not difficult, it's not challenging, right?

Very simple.

Right?

Who, what, when, where, and why as you're going through your day.

Oh, I hung out with my friend today.

Oh, we went to the park.

Oh, why?

Because we were tired.

You're thinking in English all throughout your day.

So at the end of the day, you're able to answer the five W's.

It will also help you organize your thought.

Like a native English speaker every single day.

Remember, your goal is to sound like me, right?

And you can do it.

Don't worry.

I have students that have done it.

That's your goal, so you have to learn how to think like a native English

speaker, and this will help you do that.

Finally, this will also help you use the English you already know to describe your.

This is something that I try to encourage my students on a regular basis to do.

You already know a lot of English.

You're smart, you're intelligent.

You've probably been studying English for months, years, maybe even decades.

So in your brain, there are already a lot of words and expressions and thoughts.

This right here will simply help you start to utilize what you

already know, improving your.

Makes sense right now.

The fifth thing I need you to do is this right here.

Record one video every week.

Now I know that sounds scary.

I know You're like, whoa, Tiffani.

Whoa.

Every week, listen my friend, it's not as hard as you think.

Again, this is something I encourage each and every one of my students to do.

You have a cell phone, right?

Doesn't matter which cell phone you.

Take your cell phone out and just record yourself.

Remember we talked about number two, practicing in front of the

mirror, right with your cell phone.

You can see yourself record yourself talking about your day.

Now, why is this important?

First, this will help you track your progress as an English learner.

You have a large goal, a big goal.

You wanna speak English like a.

You might not be there yet, so sometimes you feel discouraged, but

when you have videos once a week, And you can track your progress.

You'll suddenly feel better.

Wait a minute, I'm getting better with time.

This will also help you be more comfortable speaking

English in front of others.

Something happens.

Wow, something's in my eye.

Again, don't worry, I leave this in the video so you can

know it's real . So something happens when you record yourself,

something happens psychologically.

You know what?

One of my student.

Kathy, I'll say her name.

Hey Kathy.

Kathy told me this happened to her.

She said, TIFF, I was a little bit shy to speak English in front of people at

times, but then I heard what you said.

You gave us the instruction in the academy to record a video.

She said, and I started doing it, TIFF, she said in the

beginning I wasn't comfortable, but I kept doing it every week.

Fast forward after only a few short months, Kathy started a YouTube.

You heard me right?

A YouTube channel where she speaks English in every video.

All because she started recording herself every week and she lost that nervousness.

She started being more confident in her ability to speak English,

and she now speaks English in front of others with no problems at all.

Confidence.

I love it.

So remember, it will help you be more comfortable when you

speak English in front of.

And finally, this will help you gain confidence in your

ability to speak English well.

Something happens when you have to record yourself every week and

you can see what you're doing.

Trust me.

You can achieve your English goal.

You will be able to speak English like a native English

speaker if you follow these tips.

I hope you enjoy today's lesson and I hope you remember that you can do it.

I believe in you.

I'll talk to you in the next lesson.

You still there?

Ha ha.

You know what time it is?

Here we go.

Sing it with me.

It's story time.

Hey, I said it's story time . Alright, . I like this story.

Some of my students might have heard this story already,

but I really like this story.

So I'm gonna tell you this story.

This story is about a time that I.

Went on a retreat, a camping trip, basically with some friends of mine.

Now, this was about, mm, 18 or 17 years ago, we were in college our third or

fourth year in college, and we were going on this spiritual retreat.

There were cabins and there was a lake.

It was amazing, right?

The food was good, the fellowship was great, and one.

. I think it might have been a Sunday morning.

They said, Hey, who wants to go and get the canoes and go on the lake?

We said, sure, let's do it.

Now.

I could swim and everything.

I'm not scared of water.

So all of my friends and I, we went down to the lake and they made

sure everyone had a life jacket on.

So we put our life jackets on, and there were a ton of us together.

So I decided I have been canoeing before, and then one of my friend's

cousins and another gentleman, neither of them had canoed before.

So I said, you know what?

You guys can have the experience.

I'll sit in the middle of the canoe and you too can be the ones

that are actually rowing, right?

Because they had never done it before.

I said, no problem at all.

So I sat in the middle.

One sat in the back and the other sat in front of me.

So, you know, we get in the water.

Now, the very first thing I asked y'all, I said, now wait a minute.

Are there any snakes in this water?

I said, I'm not scared of water, but what I don't like is snakes.

They said, oh no, TIFF, you're good.

Don't worry about it.

Pay attention to my face.

Okay?

So I said, okay, cool.

So we get in the B, in the canoes, they're probably like four or five canoes, right?

So we're out in the middle of the water in the middle of the lake, and

all of a sudden our canoes started doing a little bit of extra rocking.

I said, now, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Wait a minute, y'all wait a minute.

We rocking a little bit.

They said, yeah, don't worry, don't worry.

Now, just to give you a little bit backstory, this is about my hair.

So you notice my hair changes a lot, right?

Different hairstyles.

African American women, we have different hair textures

depending on the woman, right?

My hair texture, for example, right now it's in its natural state.

It's naturally very curly.

At that time, I had a perm, and when a black woman, an African

American woman, gets a perm, , uh, the hair goes completely straight.

It looks nice both ways.

I love this style and I like that style as well.

I had just gotten my hair done right before the retreat.

It was fried, dyed and laid to the side.

That's a slang term.

We use . African Americans used right?

My hair looked really good.

I had just gotten it done and you know, when you're a college student,

you don't have a lot of money, right?

So I had just gotten it done.

It looked really.

I wasn't worried about anything because hey, we were just

going on a lake in a canoe.

So then the boat continued.

The canoe continued to rock back and forth, and wouldn't, you know, it rocked.

It rocked, and it flipped over.

Now the canoe flipped over, but remember I told you my hair,

I had just gotten my hair.

Wouldn't, you know the canoe flipped, but my hair, listen, this girl's hair did

not touch the water . The canoe flipped.

Now, all of this was told to me after people that were

watching the situation, right?

The canoe flipped.

As soon as it flipped, I was swimming.

As soon as it flipped, I was swimming and my hair was not touching the water right.

My hair was pretty long too, but it wasn't touching the water.

So I was swimming.

I was swimming to another boat that my other friend happened to be in.

Right?

Another canoe.

And as I was swimming toward their canoe, my friends, my friend,

they were like, no, TIFF, no.

And I was like, why are they saying no, I'm getting out of

this water into their canoe.

They were like, TIFF, if you get in, we'll all fall.

I said, oh my goodness.

And at that moment I realized I had nothing left that I could do.

And so my hair got wet because I had to kind of go in the water.

So while I'm processing the fact that my hair is wet now, and I done paid money

for my hair behind me, I hair screams.

And so my friends that are in front of me are like, TIFF, go back to the boat.

Now remember, I could swim.

I had a life jacket on, but I could.

I turned back and look at the canoe behind me and the two individuals that were

with me were kind of bobbing in the water and I was like, what is going on now?

The female.

I was told that she could swim, and I assumed the guy could swim

because he was like a real buff guy.

So I swim back to the canoe and I'm like, stop screaming.

Stop screaming.

This is something about me.

In emergency situations, I'm able to think very clearly.

I don't get shocked.

I don't get frazzled.

I think very clearly.

I think it's because my dad was in the military for 30 years.

So in an emergency situation, I'm the one that thinks very clearly.

So I'm telling them to calm down.

I look at the girl and I say, can you swim?

She's like, yes, she's still bobbing.

I said, so stop screaming and swim.

She stopped and she started swimming.

I said, okay, got her.

I look at the guy, he's screaming, flailing.

I said, can you swim?

He said, no.

I said, oh my goodness.

So I help him.

I said, listen, you have a life jacket on.

Stop flailing.

Just relax.

So we turn the canoe over.

He's holding onto it.

She's holding onto it, and we eventually get back to land my hair.

No, completely wet.

We get back to the edge and I'm like, okay, we're all safe.

And remember I told you to remember our facial expression.

Soon as we get to the edge and said, woo, at least there

are no snakes in this water.

Somebody said, yes, there are.

There's tons of snakes in this water.

I said, never again

So God protected.

But my hair got wet and I had to save two people, so I enjoyed the trip, but

it's a trip I will never, ever forget.

Maybe you had to save your friends before and maybe your hair

got wet after you got it done.

. I hope you enjoyed this story and I'll talk to you in the next lesson.