How to Improve Your English Speaking Skills

Hello, this is Jack from tofluency.com

and in this video we're going to look at how you can improve

your English speaking skills, so keep watching!

I receive many emails from English learners

telling me that they want to improve their English

speaking, and I imagine this is what you want too

but before we take a look at the specific ways that you can improve your

speaking

it's important to know that working on your general

English is going to help your speaking too. So, make sure you're doing the other

things that you need to do to improve your level.

So, there are two main ways that you can improve your

english speaking, and the first way

is to get more natural practice; and this just means having conversations

with other people in English. Doing this not only helps you use your English in

different situations

but it also allows you to learn new words and phrases

and to learn more about English by listening

to other people speak. And having conversations

is one of the best ways that you can get natural

input. The second way to improve your speaking

is to do something that I call focused learning

and this is when you practice specific things

to help you improve, and you can do this on your own

or work with a teacher, and this is different than having

normal everyday conversations

An example of this is doing drills and

other things that are going to help you improve your pronunciation

and I feel that not enough learners

spend enough time working on their pronunciation

It will make a massive difference if you can say the different sounds in English

correctly

in addition to being able to use the correct stress,

intonation, and rhythm when you speak

and that's why I recommend that you spend time

working on your pronunciation. Another

example of focused learning is mimicking

native speakers, and anyone can do this now

because of all the audio that is available for free

online. And this is an easy method

to work on: all you need to do is listen to a native speaker

and then repeat after they speak

To take this method further you can actually

record your audio, and then compare it

to the original recording. What this does

is it allows you to compare your version

to the original version, and then make any changes that you need to make

So, using a combination of natural practice

and also the focused learning methods I talked about

is really going to help you... and

my question for this video is this:

How often do you speak in English? How often do you speak

in English? Leave your answers below this video

thanks for watching, and see you next time!