Tips for speaking English fluently! Where do you get input from?

There is English input available everywhere. Here are a few tips and suggestions for you to find input of English around you and improve your English speech:

 

Rent or buy an English movie DVD

Rent or buy an English movie DVD. Put the English subtitles on. Follow the movie.

This has many advantages:

• You will be able to compare the written words to the correct pronunciations.

• You will get a feel of how real English sentences are formed when speaking.

Please note: When you watch the movie be sure to keep your dictionary handy. Whenever you come across a new word, pause the movie and look it up in the dictionary. If you don’t do this, the whole experience will be quite pointless.

 

 Read about any subject that interests you.

There are a lot of English magazines available on a lot of different topics.

No matter what subject interests you, there must be some magazine that talks about it.

Find the magazine that interests you and read it cover to cover. Be sure to look out for new words and new phrases and look them up in the dictionary as you go.

If you cannot find a magazine of your choice, look for information you are interested in on the Internet. There is information available on every topic under the sun on the Internet.

 

Read English fiction novels.

Read English fiction of your choice. Old store will generally also have old novels, book and magazines. These won’t be good quality. They will all be second hand. But that’s okay; they will be nice and cheap. Pick up some thing that interests you. Take it home and read it. Be sure to look up all the new words you come across in the book.

 

 Chat with fluent English speakers

Chat with fluent English speakers real or online. Make friends with interesting English speakers. Become pen-pals with a fluent English speaker.

While talking to them look at their lip movement for tips on how to pronounce words correctly.

 

Most effective tip: "Think in English"

One of the most common mistakes that English learners make is, they think in their mother tongue. When they want to say something in English, they think in their mother tongue, translate it to English and then say it in English. The result is a very flawed English sentence. Never do this! 

If you want to speak in English fluently you will have to learn to "think" in English. When you are constructing sentences in your mind before saying them, think in English and form them in English in your mind.

BEST OF LUCK!