Category: Language Ideas

While reading and listening can help you learn a lot about the language, the only way to speak better English is by speaking it yourself.

A lot of English learners want to know when they’ve made a mistake. The thinking goes that if you can fix all of the mistakes, what’s left will be perfect.

But here are some reasons why you shouldn’t focus on mistakes:

There are a lot more wrong ways to say something wrong than right ones.
Focusing on mistakes makes you feel shy, which makes you speak less.
Some of the mistakes people point out aren’t really mistakes.

Write about things that made you feel happy, memories you make, inspiring incidents or may be even that adventurous dream of yours where you flew on winged horses and tasted that candy cloud.

Though seems weird it actually works. Eventually you’ll be able to use appropriate words and you could even track your progress.

Try writing stories, songs or poems… remember all these efforts will never go in vain but will only make you more fluent and believe me your logical thinking too will be drastically enhanced

As a rule of thumb, the most important key to English fluency is the ability to think in English, so you need to practice to think in English as native speakers do. Here are some useful tips to help you improve this typical skill.

• Stop the habit of translating between languages (if you have)
• Use an English to English dictionary to look up words
• Try to think in English anywhere, anytime. A student shared with us that she usually walks in the park and trying to describe people around her in English by using as many adjectives as she can. You can do the same, or create your own method to practice thinking English whenever you have “free time” to think.

You’ll notice that when you think in English, it’s easier for you to speak in English.

It has always been prescribed that in case you want to increase your confidence, speaking skills, Mirror is the best guide for you. So, make Mirror your best friend which can renovate you completely as it shows the real YOU. If you have the dare to chase yourself in front of a mirror, then you can be the most successful person over the globe. Speaking in front of the mirror enables you to overcome hesitation and improve your speaking skill set.

How much time and how you are spending on learning English is considered as an investment in your future fluency in the language. Every small step will help you in the journey to proficiency of English in a long way over time. You should have to set a clear idea on why you need to reach the proficiency and make it as a priority in your practice session. There is no specified time for achieving fluency in English; it differs from person to person skills to skill. But this should be regularly done for achieving at a faster rate.

Today many people don’t have the attention span to read books and thus they are turning to audio-books. Audio-book are much easier to understand and fun to listen to. Audio books are easily available on YouTube and also you can purchase them from Flipkart and Amazon and other E-Commerce sites.

Your goal is to deliver a message, not speak perfect English, with the right grammar and vocabulary. Even native English speakers make mistakes!