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10 Tips How To Speak English Fluently and Confidently? (Part 1)

Hello everybody... How are you today? 
Any something wrong with your English speaking? Do you want to speak English fluently and confidently? Alright, in this article I will share 10 tips about how to speak English fluently and confidently?

Tips How to speak english fluently and confidently?
How To Speak English
Well. We know that Speaking is one of the most important parts in a basic English learning. With the ability to speak English fluently, we can communicate with other people around the world. Besides, speaking skill is also important for career achievement and increase our personal life.

So, let's have a look at my 10 tips for speaking English and making yourself understood in a foreign language.

1. Make It Easy For People To Understand You

I think this is the most important tip when you're struggling to make yourself understood in a foreign language. Pronounce your words, open your mouth and say the words. Don't mumble, don't speak quietly, because people will find it difficult to understand you, especially with the
accent and all.

Tips How to speak english fluently and confidently?

If you're talking about: 'Do you want a cup of coffee?' It might seem silly, but that can save a lot frustration when you're trying to communicate and people can't understand what you're saying. Gesticulate with your hands, use your mouth, use your facial expressions. And along the same lines, try to pronounce things from your native language in a way that people can understand.

So instead of making that conversation easier, you're making it harder, if you know what I mean, by pronouncing it the way that you would in Portuguese.

So if you know how people in English-speaking countries speak certain words from your native language, then make it easier for them. Why not? It doesn't really matter, you're not making a mistake. The important thing is that you know that you know the way it's supposed to be said, but in that particular context, it's much easier for you to make it easier for yourself and for the person that you're speaking to.

2. Don’t Obsess Over Your Mistakes

They really don't matter that much, and if you told me that when I was learning English as a teenager, I wouldn't have followed your advice, but I hope some of you will. As a teenager, I worried far too much about my mistakes and about what other people thought of what I was saying wrong, and that prevented me from starting conversations because I didn't want to make mistakes, especially in English.

The first time I met to tourist I would not start a conversation, I would wait until they would start a conversation with me, because I was too worried about saying things the wrong way. But soon enough I realized by talking to people how little they care about your mistakes.

If you're trying your best, and you're speaking most of it correctly, or if you're getting the general gist of the conversation correctly, people really don't care that much. Even native speakers of English make mistakes.

And that's something that you'll learn. That your grammar will be much better than a lot of native speakers. Obviously there are a lot of people in English-speaking countries that have amazing grammar and things like that, but you'll be surprised how good your Grammar and your knowledge of the English language is, coming from learning English as a foreign language. So don't obsess over your mistakes.

If you feel like you've made a mistake, don't stop a conversation to correct yourself. Just carry on speaking and keep the conversation flowing, and that will make you more confident. You know in your mind that you made a mistake, but you'll correct it next time.

Don't worry that the person is not going to judge you on that mistake, it's just going to make life a little bit easier if you're trying to communicate in a foreign language.

3. Practice, Practice, Practice

Language is a tool of communication. So, practice whenever you can, wherever you can. If you have a friend abroad that you talk to online, talk to them on Skype, talk to them on Facetime, but actually talk to them. The writing is good, but you will only get your fluency by practicing your speaking. 

And if you've learned English as a second language, you know the very important parts of English, such as writing, reading, listening and speaking. And speaking is, by far I think the hardest one for people to achieve fluency in.

If you know anyone in town that speaks English as a first language, go and speak to them and just practice as much as you can. But if you can't do that, practice on your own, even in your house. I used to do that all the time in my bedroom.

I used to have conversations with myself, and you can call me crazy, but that really, really helped me because I kind of practiced the way that I wanted to say certain things and the way that the sounds come out of my mouth because a lot of sounds we don't have in our native languages if you're speaking a foreign language.

4. Rehearse Monologues And Conversations

Rehearse monologues and conversations in the privacy of your home before you go and speak to other people and what I mean by that is you know the general topics of conversation that come up when you're talking to the people like talking about where are you from, you know where were you born, what do you do, what do you study and what do you think of this, do you like tea, what kind of drinks do you like, what's your favorite food, just the general conversation topics. 

Rehearse what your answers would you save when someone asked you. What's your favorite food, do you know what's your favorite food in English, go and look that out and rehearse it beforehand. And if someone asked what your job going and rehearse how to say that in English, also rehearse a few questions as well, so that you can ask them a few questions and where do they live, what are their hobbies, what they like doing, how old are they and things like that.

That is so useful to have because then, whenever that sprung on to you on a conversation, you don't freeze and panic because you think God I have all this vocabulary in my brain but I just can't get it out in a sentence. However, if you practice before hand, then you have these sentences ready in your brain to be used.

I used to do that all of the time. I think my mom and my brother probably thought I was absolutely insane because I used to speak to myself in the bedroom just rehearsing the dialogues with myself in English literally. I'd have full-on conversations about nothing or everything with myself, but I think that really helps.

5. Speak Confidently 

Speak confidently even if you're not confident in your English that can be a little bit intimidating. But if you get the balance right of being confident and being humble at the same time in admitting that you don't know everything, then I think that's the perfect mix if you too arrogant in your English you're saying that you know it all.

Tips How to speak english fluently and confidently?

You won't get any sympathy from people who can detect that in the conversation, but if you're confident, at the same time you admit that you don't know certain things, you know kind of like asking them, like hinting that you need a little help, maybe you're talking about a ship and you don't know certain parts of the ship.


What are they named in English, so you can say to them, you know a ship what's that part called, you know just kind of be gauged a little bit but be confident and what you're speaking and I think that really helps with making yourself understood.

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