ENGLISH FLUENCY TIPS YOU MUST KNOW | 5 TIPS YOU MUST REMEMBER TO SPEAK ENGLISH FLUENTLY

Hey, you want to speak English confidently fluently like a

native English speaker, right?

Well, there are five tips that I have for you.

Five tips that you must understand in order to speak English fluently.

And I'm going to give you those tips today.

Are you ready?

Well, then I'm teacher.

Tiffani let's jump right in.

All right.

Tip number one, tip.

Number one is stop.

Saying, sorry.

Apologizing actually affects your English fluency.

That may surprise you.

You may think, Hey, I don't want the person to look at me funny or I

don't want the person to judge me.

So I'm going to say, sorry, I'm not really good at English, but this

affects you more than you realize you see, let me explain this a little bit.

The thing is when you say, sorry, I'm bad at English, you lose confidence in

your ability to speak English fluently.

When you lose confidence in yourself, you will not move forward.

I'm going to say that again.

When you lose confidence in yourself, not other people.

When you lose confidence in yourself, your English will not improve.

So you must stop saying, sorry, I'm bad at English or saying, sorry, my

English pronunciation is not good.

You see, when you say this, you're actually telling the

person listening to you that you are not confident in yourself.

You all know how many times I emphasize confidence and confidence is important

when you want to speak English fluently.

So when you start a conversation, With oops, sorry.

My pronunciation is not good.

You're telling the person, uh, I'm not confident in myself.

I want to emphasize another point when it comes to pronunciation yesterday.

True story.

I actually went to the store.

I live in America.

I'm a native English speaker.

I went to Walmart to pick something up and the lady that helped me.

She had a very strong accent.

Did it affect me?

No, she and I had a long conversation.

We actually found out we live in the same apartment complex, but as I was

speaking with her, I thought about you.

She didn't care about her pronunciation because she was speaking English

fluently and I understood.

And there was no problem.

So I don't want you to feel so insecure about your pronunciation.

Yes, you can improve when there are certain sounds that may be

difficult for people to understand when you're speaking, but don't

apologize for your pronunciation.

Just like me.

When I was speaking to the worker at Walmart, I continued with the conversation

and it didn't bother me at all.

Be confident in yourself.

The other thing is, when you say, sorry about my English, you are telling your

brain that it is bad to make mistakes.

Again, when you say, sorry about my English, you're saying.

How dare you make a mistake.

You should not make mistakes.

But the truth is when you are learning a language, mistakes are important.

How can you improve if you don't make mistakes and then tweak certain things.

So when you make a mistake, it's okay.

That's how you learn.

Think about children when they're growing up, they have to make mistakes

and learn to continue growing.

The same is true about your English.

So the first tip is please stop saying, sorry.

Now I want to tell you the second tip another one.

That's very important.

I need you to remember that you should not worry.

About every vocabulary word, knowing more words will not

automatically make you fluent.

I've had so many students during my time as an English teacher, and you all know

how much I love teaching you English.

But during my time as an English teacher, I've had so many

students ask me this question, teacher, what does this word mean?

What does this word mean?

What is this word?

When we're watching a program.

Now, this is when I was in South Korea.

We'll be watching a program or doing something together and every single word

they didn't know, they would ask me now, as a teacher, I love helping my students.

I love helping you, but over time, I realized that the students

were focusing on small details.

Instead of the bigger picture, you don't have to know every single word.

Let me explain this a little more, uh, in a clearer way.

Memorizing thousands of vocabulary.

Words does not mean you will speak English fluently.

Let me say that again.

Memorizing thousands of English vocabulary words does not mean you will

automatically speak English fluently.

Now vocabulary is very important.

Don't misunderstand vocabulary is very important, but you have to use.

I experienced this same challenge when I was studying Korean, there

were points in time where I would memorize 50 to a hundred Korean

vocabulary words on a daily basis.

But my Korean fluency was not.

I had all of these words in my mind that I could not use.

So again, memorizing does not equal fluency.

You must understand the context, understanding the context.

The idea of what is being said or presented is more important

than understanding every single.

Think about it at the end of every lesson, what do I do?

Story time.

Right?

It's coming.

Don't worry.

But I give you a story about my life now.

Every single word I use, you may not understand, but you're so engaged.

You're so interested in the story I'm telling.

That you understand the context and your brain is actually able to guess certain

words to guess certain expressions or idioms that I use during stories.

It is so important for you to understand that context is more

important than vocabulary words.

Point number three, focusing only on the words will cause

you to stop enjoying English.

If you're sitting there again, I did the same thing.

If you're sitting there, when you watch an English drama or a television

show or a movie, and you have your notebook, which is good at times.

But every time you watch a show, you push, pause and write down the word,

play pause, write down the word.

If you do that every single time, remember pay attention.

Sometimes that is important, but if you do it every time, you'll never understand the

words in context, your brain is amazing.

English is your second, third, fourth, or fifth language.

So you are already smart enough to learn this language.

Trust your brain trust that your brain will understand words in context.

So number two, tip number two.

Don't worry about every vocabulary word.

Now.

Point number three, tip number three is I want you to remember.

Tip number three is remember that you are intelligent.

I just said it a while ago.

You are already fluent in one language.

And for maybe your situation you're fluent in 2, 3, 4, or even

five or six languages already.

You must remember that you, my friend are already intelligent.

So this is something I want to emphasize right here.

English again is your second, third, fourth, and maybe even fifth language.

Your brain is amazing.

You are already able point number two to express yourself

confidently in your own language.

Think about that.

You can express your thoughts, your ideas in your own language.

So as you're learning English and trying to become fluent,

you don't have to be discouraged because you are already amazing.

You are intelligent.

And point number three is you can understand what I'm saying.

Think about that.

I am a native English speaker.

You're not you're learning, but you are able to understand me.

You are awesome.

Your brain is amazing.

I need you to remember that you are intelligent tip number three.

These things are important in order for you to finally speak English fluently.

Now tip number four is also important.

This is something that many students struggle with.

You must apply what you learn immediately.

The faster you use it, the easier it will be to remember.

Here's the thing.

Remember earlier, we were talking about the tip, dealing with vocabulary

tip number two, and I said, just memorizing will not equal fluency.

This touches on the same thing.

You must apply what you learn immediately.

So when I was learning 50 to a hundred vocabulary words, Korean words in

one day, it was impossible for me to immediately apply all of those words.

But when I switched and I started memorizing a smaller number of words,

and I immediately started using them and applying them in my real life, then my

Korean fluency started to go up like this.

So I want you to remember these points, right?

First, this helps you understand what you are learning even.

When you memorize a word, when you learn a concept and idea, or watch

one of my lessons and you immediately apply what you learned, maybe you teach

it to your friend or family member.

Maybe you make a sentence using the lesson or the word or expression.

Maybe you actually go out and start talking to.

In English, applying what you learned your brain says, okay.

All right.

We have new information.

Now it's time for us to stick it in there and say, Hey, we learned it.

Now we have to use it.

You must use it immediately.

The other point is it will create triggers in your brain.

When you first learn something, you only have one thing to connect it to.

Either the book, you learned it from the video, you learned it from, maybe you

look at the phone or on the internet, but when you apply what you learned now,

there are multiple triggers in your brain.

Your brain is amazing.

There are different triggers going off all the time.

If I say apple juice, Something pops in your head, right?

Maybe you enjoy apple juice.

And you remember the first time you had apple juice or maybe you remember

two weeks ago when you were drinking apple juice with your daughter or son,

there are certain triggers already in your brain connected to situations,

experiences, and other things.

You have to create triggers by applying what you learn immediately.

Again, this will help you speak English.

Point number three, your confidence in your English ability, English speaking

ability will increase faster when you start using what you're learning.

You'll kind of start...Oh Oh patting yourself on the back.

Like, well, I guess I am pretty good at English and that's okay.

That is wonderful.

Use and apply what you learn immediately, you will shock yourself.

You will gain so much confidence.

Your shoulders will go back.

You'll walk a little bit straighter.

When you speak in English, you'll speak with more confidence.

When you apply what you learn immediately.

And this fifth tip is so important.

I want you to remember this.

I need you to think about your wins, not your mistakes.

It's important to remember your accomplishments.

Here's the thing.

As an English learner, you are going to make mistakes.

It's inevitable.

It is going to happen.

It happened with me when I was learning Korean.

And even now I make mistakes when I'm speaking in Korean, sometimes because I

have not been in the country in a while.

However for you instead of focusing on, oh my gosh, I can't believe,

I didn't know that grammar rule.

Oh my goodness.

I forgot the word when I was speaking to my friend.

Oh man.

I wrote that comment on Facebook or, or YouTube, and I think I

maybe used the wrong English word.

What I want you to remember is that you have some amazing wins.

Think about your wins.

What did you do?

That was amazing.

Maybe you learned a new word on Instagram from my lesson,

or hear from one of my lessons.

And you used it.

Think about that.

I used what teacher Tiffany taught me.

That's a win focus on your wins.

Here's point number one, to help you with this.

Your confidence in your English speaking ability will increase faster.

It will shock and amaze you focusing on your mistakes.

Point two will make you feel discouraged and nervous when you speak English.

If every time you make a mistake, you focus on it over and over and over again.

The next time you go to speak in English, you will feel discouraged and nervous.

And finally, in order to gain more confidence in your abilities, you must

remember all that you have accomplished.

I'll say it again.

You are amazing.

You are learning another language and tip number five is you have to remember,

you have to think about your wins and stop focusing on your mistakes.

I believe in you.

I know that you are amazing and I believe that you can speak English.

I hope you enjoyed this lesson.

I hope it helps you watch it over and over again.

Share it with somebody else that wants to speak English fluently.

I truly care about you and I can't wait to see you in the next lesson.

Talk to you next time.

You still there?

You know what time it is?

Here we go.

It's story time.

Hey, I said it's story time.

All right.

Now today's story guys is connected to what I was teaching you in

the tips that I gave you today.

We're talking about confidence.

Speaking English, fluently.

And I want to tell you about a time that I did not have confidence in myself until I

remembered something so many of, you know, and maybe you do maybe, you know, as well.

I love sports.

When I was in high school, I was voted the most athletic female in my high school.

When I got to college, I was voted the most athletic female out of

all the females in my college.

As you can tell.

I've always loved sports, very athletic.

I like taking care of myself.

And my favorite sport has always been basketball.

I've been playing it since I was a child.

And I remember when I was in college, you know, college basketball is harder

than high school basketball, of course.

But right before I went to college, there was a gentleman, Mr.

Rayford, if he ever watches this and Mr.

Ray.

Actually coached me a little bit on the side, not officially, but he would give

me tips and he would help me with, um, some of the steps I needed to master to

get to the basket, you know, the hoop faster and properly, and some things with

dribbling to kind of avoid my opponents.

He really gave me some good basketball tips.

So when I was around Mr.

Ray, I felt confident in my basketball skills.

Now, fast forward.

I remember the day it happened, I was a freshman in college and

we were in basketball practice.

And my coach, when I was in college, he was good.

He was a little bit, uh, yelled a lot more than I was used

to, but you know, he's a nice.

So anyways, we're in practice and I had played the point guard.

I was the number one or the number two, uh, number one, being the point guard

that brings the ball down and hands it out to the team, the other players, or

number two, being the one that helps the point guard and also is a shooting guard.

So anyways, I, at the time I was playing the point guard during practice, but

I was getting a little bit nervous.

The coach was yelling.

I wasn't able to see the floor properly.

I wasn't getting the passes off properly.

And the more mistakes I made.

The less confident I was getting in myself.

I was focusing on my mistakes and not my wins.

So practice continued, coach again, still yelling.

I was feeling bad about myself, even though I could play

basketball, I wasn't doing well.

And all of a sudden the door behind me opened, we were in a

big gymnasium, but you know, when the doors open, you can hear.

And I turned around and it was Mr.

Rayford.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

This was literally about 20 years ago, 20 or so years ago.

And I remember like it was yesterday, I turned around...Now Mr.

Rayford was not from, I was in Alabama.

That's where my university college was, but I'm from Maryland.

And Mr.

Rayford is also from.

So I was shocked that he was in Alabama, Mr.

Rayford opened the door and he walked in.

He didn't say, man is so powerful.

Y'all he didn't say anything, but he looked me in my eye.

He had just walked in.

He didn't know that I was making mistakes over and over.

So he walked in, I looked at him and he kinda smiled like,

Hey TIFF, I was in practice.

He wasn't going to interfere.

He smiled.

I looked at him and I smiled and he sat down and something happened now.

I didn't recognize it immediately, but my coach recognized it.

Remember throughout the entire practice, my coach was yelling,

TIFF, what are you doing?

Come on.

So I kept making mistakes and I was focusing on my mistakes.

And I wasn't getting better, but all of a sudden the dribbling got better.

My past has got smoother.

My shot got better.

I was playing like I knew I could.

And I only realized it when my coach stopped us from practice and said,

TIFF, I don't know what just happened, but what you're doing right now, yes.

Keep going, keep doing it.

And that, that moment I realized it was because Mr.

Rayford had walked into the.

I associated wins with Mr.

Rayford.

I associated my ability to achieve Mr.

Mr.

Rayford always told me, TIFF, there's nothing you can't do.

You can play basketball.

You're good.

So it really...Sorry my nose was running guys.

(lol) so at that moment I realized, wow, your mindset, what you

focus on affects you so much.

Now the rest of the practice went really well.

Mr.

Rayford was there.

I felt confident in myself.

And I want you to realize I want to be your Mr.

Rayford.

I believe in you.

I have confidence in your abilities.

The only reason I create these lessons and anything I create is to

help you realize that you can do it.

Don't focus on your mistakes, focus on your wins.

Remember that?

If you really want to speak English fluently, apply

what you learn immediately.

Remember all the tips that I've taught you today.

And I want to be your Mr.

Rayford.

I love you all.

I genuinely want you to speak English fluently and I'll see you next time.