10 Tips How To Speak English Fluently and Confidently? (Part 2)

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6. If You Can't Find The Right Word, Try Describe It 

If you can't find the word, try describing what the word means. Very very often I'll be speaking to someone and I won't know a certain word or I will have forgotten it completely, and I still want to carry on that conversation without interrupting me to go and look in the dictionary or to go and try and get my brain working. So, whilst you're in the conversation in the middle of it.

If you forget a word, try describing what it means. For example; if you're talking about a DSLR camera and you can't remember what the word DSLR is, you say you know those big camera that usually have the detachable lens. I'm sure someone else will say yeah DSLR camera so you know they will help you out in the conversation if you're asking for help them in the right way. 

But, if you stop and you say I can't remember what I'm trying to say then that person that you're trying to speak to won't be able to help you because they also don't know what you're trying to say. So, make yourself easier to help by describing what you mean when you don't know what you want to say. It will help you to speak English fluently and confidently.

7. Look for Alternatives of The Words You Don’t Know 

Look for alternative words of the words that you don't know and all I can think of right now is that most of the times I don't know the name of social fruits and there are only available in Indonesia. I don't know the translation to English and if I'm in the middle of a conversation, I will refer to the fruit as the general category.

Orange

For example, if it's a type of orange, a specific type of orange, I'll say we have an orange and this kind of orange does this, and that tastes like this, and looks like that instead of trying to find what that name of the specific orange is.

So, that's just like a small example but you can find lots of synonyms and similar words to the things that you don't know you don't necessarily have to go for that specific words that you don't know.

8. Don't Be Afraid to Ask People to Repeat What They Just Said 

Don't be afraid to ask people to repeat what things if you don't hear them. It's much better than being misunderstood or misunderstanding other people. The majority of people are very kind when you say pardon or when you say “sorry, I didn't hear. You can you repeat that please”. Just don't be afraid of asking people to repeat things that you didn't hear.

9. Immerse Yourself In The Language That You Are Learning 

To surround yourself and immerse yourself in the language that you're trying to learn as much as possible. Even if you don't live in an English-Speaking country or you're trying to learn English but you don't have many English friends, try to immerse yourself in terms of TV shows music and reading. One thing I used to love doing was buying books in English and yes, they were a challenge.

You learned so many new words when you're reading and it's not something that people usually make time for these days with the internet and with YouTube, and people kind of spend their time or watching videos and reading blog post rather than reading a book.

But it's so important to read books. The vocabulary that you get from reading a book you can't get it anywhere else. Well, you can probably but, in my opinion I think you get a lot out of a book.

Listen Carefully

It's so important to listen to what when other people are speaking, especially if they're speaking in the language that's not your first language. Because it will be much harder to understand people if you tune out a little bit, or if you don't listen to everything that they're saying, also trying to lip-read as well if you can't hear what they're saying.

Listening

That sometimes helps if you're talking to someone in a very loud place and it's really hard to hear them, look at their mouths and time trying to figure out what they're saying like that. That is a very basic tip but it's something that's so important. And if you neglect that, it may cause a lot of confusion if you miss what people are saying because you weren't listening.

So this is my top 10 tips about how to speak English fluently and confidently. Making yourself understood in a foreign language. If you have any questions about my English speaking journey that, make sure to leave them in the comments below. And if you have any other questions about you know living abroad or speaking English as a foreign language, I'll be more than happy to answer your questions.

Good luck and bye !!