Latihan shadowing: Spoken English Class 1 - How to Speak Fluent English Beginner to Advanced
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- Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy.0:09
- Today I have a spoken English class for you.0:13
- I have got eight tips that will help you to master spoken English.0:18
- If you apply these tips to your everyday life you will really notice a difference and you will become more confident and more comfortable speaking English.0:24
- My first tip is to get to know the parts of your body that you use whilst speaking English.0:35
- This might sound a little odd but trust me on this one.0:44
- If you don't understand which parts of your face, tongue and throat are used when speaking English then how will you ever be able to correct your pronunciation mistakes?0:48
- Watch yourself in the mirror whilst speaking English is a common tip that many teachers give.1:01
- However I think you should go one step further than this.1:06
- You absolutely need to analyse what your lips, tongue, throat, face in general is doing when you speak English.1:10
- You need to find a close up video, a zoomed in video of a native speaker or a speaker that you admire speaking in English.1:21
- You then need to record yourself up close, preferably at the same distance, speaking the same sentence.1:31
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- Analyse the way your lips move in comparison to their lips.1:41
- Analyse how far they stick their tongue out or maybe they push it right back in their mouth.1:46
- What are you doing with your tongue?1:51
- This started a big learning curve for me when I was learning Spanish.1:54
- I started to really analyse Spanish speakers' tongues.1:59
- They might have found this quite weird when I was watching them speak, looking at their tongue instead of their eyes but I realised that when in English we say2:04
- d with the tongue inside of our mouths, d, d, it's quite a delicate sound.2:12
- The Spanish speakers in the area I was living in would stick their tongue out a little bit more, the, the, like that.2:18
- By listening alone I would never have realised that but by watching and analysing I managed to transform my pronunciation and you can do the same with English.2:27
- You should also analyse the voice quality.2:38
- How much voice do we allow to escape through our throats?2:42
- Compare it to yours as well.2:45
- If you are serious about improving your pronunciation and you're spoken English then you do need to be very critical about what you are speaking at present and work towards2:48
- correcting it.2:59
- Tip number two is to combine reading and listening, thus improving your pronunciation.3:00
- Perhaps you will know by now that a way a word is written in English normally gives very little indication as to how that word is pronounced in English.3:08
- In many languages across the world the way a word is written tells you and shows you exactly how that word should be spoken.3:19
- This is not the case in English and it's part of the reason why English pronunciation and English speaking is so difficult for learners.3:28
- I have found a really good method that has helped so many of my students.3:39
- Take a book that you have already read in English or a book that you would like to read in English.3:45
- I have got a fair few recommendations in the description box down below and read that book again but here's the important part whilst listening to the audiobook version on3:51
- Audible.4:03
- If you listen to a word as you read it your brain will start making connections and the next time you hear that word you'll know how it's spelt and4:04
- the next time you read that word you'll know how it's pronounced.4:14
- It's such an effective method and the best part is you can get a free audiobook that's a 30 day free trial on Audible all you've got to do is4:18
- click on the link in the description box and sign up.4:28
- Then you can download one of my recommendations.4:31
- Give it a try it really works.4:34
- Tip number three is another reading one but it's practice speed reading.4:37
- This isn't such a common technique but I think it should be.4:42
- It's a really good way of improving your fluency so how fluently you speak English, your velocity so that's how quickly you speak English and also it will help with4:46
- your connected speech how you join one word to another or one sound to another in English.4:57
- You need to find a text that you'd like to read.5:03
- This text can accommodate your level.5:07
- Honestly I recommend using reputable news sources and news websites.5:10
- If you want to practice your informal speech then you could find a blogger you like who writes as if they're chatting to a friend.5:16
- Read the text aloud and time yourself as you're reading it.5:24
- Then read that text aloud again and try to beat your previous time.5:29
- You can repeat this as many times as you want but I find after four times, four, after four times I'm getting pretty bored of the text.5:35
- This will help you to familiarize yourself with the common sounds in English.5:45
- A step further would be to record yourself and to send it to your language instructor or to use it as a topic in your next language lesson.5:50
- Tip number four is a tip that has been massively important for me as a native speaker so I can only imagine how important it could be for you.5:59
- It is to prepare your monologues and stories that you are likely to repeat in advance.6:08
- I'm talking funny stories you want to tell at a dinner party.6:17
- I'm talking about your elevator pitch.6:21
- I'm talking about your answer to what do you do for a living or where do you come from.6:23
- These common questions that you get asked again and again and again, prepare your answer.6:27
- Have them up your sleeve.6:34
- That's the way we say to have something prepared to have it up your sleeve.6:35
- If you're an advanced speaker and you're more worried about keeping people interested or making people laugh then prepare your funny and interesting stories.6:39
- I first thought about this when I was dating.6:48
- This was a long time ago and I remember that I would get stuck and I wouldn't know what to talk about so I always felt good and confident if6:51
- I went into a dating situation with my best stories and my most interesting things to say up my sleeve.7:00
- It was funny because when I met my husband to be I had all these stories and interesting things to say up my sleeve and it all went out the7:08
- window.7:15
- Conversations just flowed without any effort but I understand that speaking English, speaking a second language can be very nerve -wracking.7:16
- It's just like dating in my opinion and you do want to have these things prepared.7:23
- Tip number five is focus on pronunciation over grammar.7:29
- Now there will be some teachers out there watching this and thinking oh my god what?7:35
- This is honestly my opinion.7:41
- I think that bad grammar habits are much easier to correct than bad pronunciation habits.7:44
- I would say that it's much easier to understand somebody speaking with great pronunciation but bad grammar than hearing someone speak with perfect grammar but terrible pronunciation.7:52
- I've met so many students that know every single grammar rule.8:05
- They even can sometimes correct me but their pronunciation they just they got to a certain level and then they found it very very difficult to improve.8:10
- They are able to improve with specific help professional help but it could have been so much easier but from a very very young age they were taught bad pronunciation8:18
- or they weren't corrected on their pronunciation.8:29
- The focus was only on grammar and that focus needs to switch.8:33
- I'm not talking about having a perfect accent.8:38
- You don't need a perfect accent.8:41
- You just need to be clear and understandable when you speak.8:45
- It will make you feel more confident.8:48
- When people move to an English speaking country they are most likely embarrassed of their pronunciation than they are their grammar.8:51
- Bad grammar can make it not so easy to understand someone but bad pronunciation can make it impossible to understand someone.8:59
- So big tip focus on pronunciation.9:07
- Tip number six is to try and think in English.9:11
- I have made an entire video about this topic but it's such a big topic.9:16
- Some people find it very easy to think in English and some people find it near impossible to think in English.9:22
- If you want to be able to speak English fluently without even thinking then you need to train yourself to think in English.9:28
- A good way to start doing this is to have a little English narrator in your head.9:36
- Choose someone's voice that you like.9:42
- I know a lot of people use Emma Watson's voice.9:44
- They have her speaking in her head.9:47
- This is normally females but for a couple of hours a day or even a couple of minutes a day have your little chosen person Emma Watson or whoever it9:48
- is narrate in your head everything you're doing.9:57
- I am washing the dishes.10:01
- I am picking up the spoon.10:02
- I'm putting it on the table.10:04
- Oh no I don't like that.10:05
- What have I done?10:06
- Just chat to yourself as you would in your own language but in English something weird might happen after a while.10:07
- You might automatically start thinking in English and you might even start dreaming in English.10:14
- They say that you are really really becoming fluent if you start dreaming in a second language and a very weird thing can happen.10:21
- You can start dreaming about your friends and family that don't speak your second language speaking in your second language.10:30
- I've had my parents telling me to do stuff in Spanish and I've just woken up very very confused.10:38
- Another point still related to the topic of thinking in English is to be constantly on the search for new words new phrases and new vocabulary.10:45
- Keep a note app on your phone or a physical vocab book and when you are idle or not doing something for example commuting to work or at work look10:56
- around think what don't I know in English and if you see something for example lamppost curtain then note it down and make a point about the end of the11:08
- day finding out what that word is in English.11:19
- Number seven this tip is very helpful because I know a lot of you just want to learn one specific accent.11:23
- Well this tip is speak with a variety of native speakers who all have different accents.11:32
- It's so tempting to just focus on one accent but you will be doing yourself a disservice.11:41
- The wider the variety of people that you speak with the more flexible your brain will be when it comes to understanding speech.11:49
- A great example is my poor mother.11:58
- She struggles so badly when it comes to understanding different accents.12:00
- It's funny and it can also be insulting to the speakers sometimes but I'm talking Scottish accents, Irish accents, Spanish people speaking English.12:07
- She is surrounded by mainly English people she speaks with people who all speak the same accent and she really really struggles.12:17
- I however have been to many different countries and I've had students from all over the world I've lived in different locations and I find it very easy to understand12:23
- different accents.12:32
- We've got the same genetics we've had the same upbringing to a certain point but because I listen to speakers with lots of different accents I am able to understand12:34
- and she isn't.12:44
- Thank you mum for letting me use you as an example she does find it funny she really struggles but it might happen to you as well.12:46
- If you just focus on a clear RP accent then you will struggle to understand a Glaswegian accent or an Australian accent or an accent from the deep south of12:54
- America.13:04
- Many of you will be thinking great I would love to speak to loads of native people but I don't know how to speak to them.13:05
- Well I have a couple of suggestions.13:10
- Number one is of course attend English classes, group English classes.13:12
- Number two is attend expat meetups.13:17
- Expats are people who have left their home country to live in another country.13:20
- A lot of them will have meetups because they want to speak with other people that speak their language and have a taste of their own culture, their home culture.13:25
- Well you can also try going to those and seeing if you can mix with them and speak their own language with them.13:34
- You'll find a wide variety of accents because they normally come from all over the world.13:39
- You can also use italki's language partner feature.13:43
- I've spoken about this quite a lot.13:47
- This is a free feature where you can find a language partner to practice with.13:49
- If you speak a language that the partner wants to learn and the partner speaks a language that you want to learn you can do a tandem I think it's13:54
- called in some countries a language exchange.14:02
- I've left a link to that in the description box.14:06
- Some people find it quite hard to find native speakers that want to speak their language especially if you come from a country where everyone wants to learn English but14:09
- it isn't as popular for English speakers to learn your language.14:17
- You could perhaps consider paying for a private language tutor.14:20
- Italki's prices are really really good per hour.14:24
- Yeah they're very very affordable.14:27
- I would recommend I've used them myself.14:29
- And number eight if you cannot find native speakers with whom to practice then just find like -minded people.14:32
- A really great resource is Facebook.14:41
- I never thought I'd be recommending Facebook but honestly Facebook groups are fantastic for finding like -minded people and for helping each other out.14:45
- If you have a question about English if you want someone to analyze the way you speak there will probably be someone on a Facebook group that will be willing14:55
- to help you.15:02
- I'm on lots of Facebook groups for many different reasons.15:04
- Facebook groups for wedding planning Facebook groups for being a farmer's wife.15:07
- Lots of them and there are so many helpful people.15:12
- I'm a member of some English groups as well.15:15
- I'm not going to tell you which but I will often respond to people's questions anonymously.15:17
- There are also some good forums on websites like Reddit and places like that.15:24
- Right that is the end of my lesson.15:32
- Those are the eight tips for spoken English.15:35
- Don't forget to check out Audible.15:39
- The link is in the description box.15:40
- You can click that and claim your free audiobook.15:42
- And don't forget to connect with me on all of my social media.15:46
- I've got my Facebook, my Instagram and my Twitter and I shall see you soon for another lesson.15:48
- I'm only one minute from finishing.15:55
- I'll see you in a sec.15:57
- Oh could you just hang out the duvet?15:58
- The duvet is in the wash.16:01
- Would you mind just hanging it up?16:02
- Thanks hon.16:04
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