My Top 10 Tips for Better English Speaking

hi welcome to ingvid.com i'm adam today i want to talk to you about speaking speaking in english and how you can become better speakers these are very general tips but i'll start by saying that i have been teaching english for almost 20 years i have taught in four different countries i have taught students of dozens of nationalities so i've seen all kinds of things and i've i discovered all kinds of reasons why people don't speak well or don't speak at all okay now the number one cause of not speaking is fear so the one of the things we're going to have to work on first is getting rid of your fear of speaking so i'm going to give you a few general tips on what you can do to become better english speakers and keep in mind this applies to any language you're going to learn if you're learning how to speak spanish this will help you become better spanish speakers if you're learning how to speak russian this will make you better russian speakers okay so that's a few things to keep in mind based on my interaction with students now i've put number one out i left it blank for now because i just want to give you guys a chance to think what is tip number one if you've watched my videos before you probably already know what i'm going to say but you know say it for yourself say it out loud anyway it's good to say out loud okay tip number one if you want to become a better english speaker or a better english writer reader etc relax learn how to relax when it comes to using a different language okay when you are relaxed your brain functions more efficiently your your ideas come together more easily everything it works when you're in a panic nothing really really registers because everything your brain is again it's in self-defense mode when you're in a panic your brain thinks there's something wrong and it's sending all kinds of ideas into your head to try to fix whatever the perceived problem is right if you're relaxed you're putting all your ideas together your thing comes out more naturally next part of being relaxed means to be confident be confident in yourself now i know that a lot of people and i've experienced this with tons and tons of students a lot of people think that somebody who's not speaking well might be you know an idiot that's not the case a lack of language does not equal a lack of intelligence okay now if i go to china and i try to speak chinese to people i'm going to sound like an idiot does that mean i'm an idiot no it means i don't know chinese i can learn chinese i can practice chinese and eventually i will be a good chinese speaker but at the beginning i'm gonna sound like an idiot okay so that's the one thing along with being confident there's one thing i want everybody to understand and i know you know this but i will say it to you anyway there's only one person on this planet who is qualified to judge you of course employers can judge your qualifications for a job a sports coach can judge your qualifications or your skills to be on a sports team etc only one person in the world can judge you as a person and that one person is you so it doesn't matter what other people think about you it doesn't matter what other people think about the way you're speaking you know who you are you know what you are you know where you are in your learning process so don't worry about what other people think now another thing when you go and again this is a part of people's human nature but if you go to another country and you will meet some people some locals some of them will be patient some of them will not some of them will look at you like struggling with the language and not want to talk to you some of them will try to help you okay don't worry about what people think if somebody is not nice to you go to the next person and try again but again the very important know your audience know who you're talking to now if you're going to try to basically put together a good sentence if you're going to try to improve your english there are people you're going to try hard to have a good sentence with and there are people you're just going to try to get a idea across okay let me give you an example if you're getting on a bus you go to new york city your english is still a little bit you know high beginner low intermediate you're getting on a bus in new york city don't try to tell the bus driver a perfect sentence don't try to make your question perfect just get the idea across let me give you an anecdote okay a little story from my experience i lived in tokyo for uh for a bunch of years and at the beginning i'm a very adventurous sorry i'm a very adventurous guy i like to travel around you know i like to go get lost in a city and find my way back so i would go get lost i had very few words then in japanese and i got lost in this one little town in you know like one a little suburb of tokyo and i was getting a little bit tired and i wanted to go home so i didn't know where the train station was i didn't know which way to go there's no such thing as north east southwest it's just everything's a big sprawl so i went looking for a japanese person you know one who wouldn't run away from me because they didn't want to practice their english i found a japanese person who would stop and listen to me and i would say sumimasen that's all i would say excuse me train where and of course this person would point out the way or even walk me to the train station i get on the train i go home i take a nap i'm happy right but if i were so worried about getting a full sentence like saying the full sentence perfectly excuse me can you tell me how i can get to the train station i would still be lost in that little suburb today i went i got my message across i got home so i'm actually going to jump around with all these tips build vocab first vocabulary is the most important thing you can do in terms of learning english a lot of people worry so much about the grammar that they can't put together a sentence and they get panicked and they get nervous so let me actually stick on to the vocab a little bit i want to give you an analogy okay like i'm going to compare learning english to doing something else let's say you want to build a model house and you have you know those look the popsicle sticks like little sticks you have some glue and you're gonna glue all your sticks together and you're gonna build yourself a house okay i want you to think of the sticks the little wooden sticks okay they kind of you know you have all these sticks you can the doctor has them and your popsicles haven't you have all these things the sticks are vocabulary the glue is grammar now imagine trying to build a house and all you have is glue and you're putting glue everywhere and all you have is like a sticky fingers of sticky hands and a big mess if all you have is vocabulary and no grammar you can build you can still build somewhat something that looks like a house grammar gets you nothing vocabulary gets you something of course you want to have both together at the end so you can have good english so don't worry about just having vocabulary throw out your few words use your hands use your face use things around you get your message across but be confident and know who you're talking to if the person doesn't seem to be patient okay thank you very much go to somebody else go to somebody sitting in a park enjoying the sunshine hi would you like to talk yeah sure let's have a conversation bus driver in new york don't think about it don't assume anything now what does it mean to assume to assume means to think something is true without having the facts so don't assume that everybody's nice some people are not nice and that's okay walk away from the not nice people find yourself a nice person don't assume that everybody is going to try to help you don't assume that everybody is judging you don't assume all kinds of things don't make assumptions about people the only thing you need to understand is that you know who you are you know what you need keep going until you find somebody who will help you okay now the worst thing you can do and i don't do this i'm just saying to you now don't go up to a stranger and say can i practice speaking my english with you that's not going to work that person gets nothing out of the deal if you go to somebody hi i'm from uh wherever country i'm from uh you know can you tell me where something is it doesn't matter what you say start a conversation if that person is interested he or she will continue the conversation but if you go to somebody can i practice my english with you well no i gotta go bye okay don't do that it doesn't work again don't try to be perfect if you were perfect you wouldn't be an english learner you would be an english speaker remember you're an english learner you're building up to a certain level now another thing to keep in mind do you think that my english that when i speak english with people i speak perfect english i don't nobody does there is no such thing as perfection i make mistakes other native speakers make mistakes right perfect is just not necessary so when you're trying to create a perfect sentence all you're doing is thinking too much and not speaking enough just speak just get whatever ideas the most important thing is to be understood not to be perfect which means that mistakes are good things if you're not trying to be perfect you're going to make mistakes mistakes will teach you more english than perfection if you're perfect you have nothing to learn if you make mistakes you have something not to repeat okay and something to figure out how not to repeat it perfect perfection doesn't exist doesn't help you mistakes they're good for you that's how you grow okay and of course the most important thing practice now how do you practice speaking when there's no when there are no native speakers around you first of all find a recording or find a tv show or a movie or something like ted.com etc where you can listen to talks given by native speakers find transcripts script see not perfect nobody's perfect find transcripts for these talks and then just follow them and then record yourself speaking then compare your speech to the one you hurt see where the intonation is where the pace changes pronunciation all kinds of things record yourself again and again and again until you get as close as possible to the native speaker's speech also record yourself and find out your grammar mistakes if you find an interview like a news interview or online interview or tv interview try to take one side of that interview so you are the interviewer ask the person the questions and sort of pretend you're having a conversation with this person then switch you that's the interviewer you are the interviewee answer the questions and then answer with your own answers if possible but basically just play play play speak speak to the mirror stand in front of the mirror and have a conversation with yourself you know it's not very comfortable and it's not very interesting but it's practice and as much as possible engage other people find native speakers speak to them find non-native speakers speak to them create a group of your classmates or your friends or your local people and just you know speak now the thing i find very common in language schools you'll have all the uh brazilian students and you have all the korean students and you'll have all the whatever students and they're all staying in their little groups and speaking their languages that doesn't help do not speak your language when you don't have to when you go home speak it all you want in school outside speak the other language and tying all of this together be adventurous life is an adventure if you're trying to make everything perfect all the time there's no fun once in a while you have to fall flat on your face right so that way you can pick yourself just pick yourself up dust yourself off grow become somebody new become something new go to different places if you're going to be afraid of speaking in english you should probably just stay home right you don't want to stay home there's a reason you're learning english you want to watch movies and understand them you want to meet new people you want to go new places you want to get an education a job whatever you're going to have to speak be adventurous be confident relax okay those are my you know two cents worth of uh tips on how to speak better i hope they helped you a little bit if you do have any questions please go to inkvid.com and in the forum there you can ask me questions about this or anything about english speaking there's also sort of a quiz it's not really a quiz it's more of like a review that you can take there make sure you understand the points i've made here i hope you liked this video if you did please subscribe to my youtube channel and come back for more tips on how to speak better listen better be better with english in english with 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Length: 14min 23sec (863 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 20 2021