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How to speak English? Speaking skills are very important in any language. The ability of speaking a language comes naturally. All people are capable of speaking their native or first language. One need not be educated to be able to speak his/her first language. But how can one learn English language if it is not his/her native language? Is there a way to pick up a foreign or second language? Let us find out more about it.

Ways to learn a foreign language | Speak English

Learning any second language involves two important things. As we have discussed in the earlier post, listening is the primary thing of learning a language. So, you have to listen to the target language as frequently as possible. The more you listen to the language you want to learn, the better your chances of picking it up. What sources do you have to listen to the target language?

Speak English; Sources to listen to the target language

Let us now look at the sources to listen to the language we want to learn. We are here to discuss how to pick up a foreign language, specifically language English. we will take a look at different sources we have to listen the target language first and then move on the learning how to speak.

1. Listen to the Radio
2. Do listen to podcasts
3. Listen to the native speakers
4. Watch English channels on Television
5. Listen to English songs
6. Watch English movies
7. Watch English talk shows
8. Attend English language classes

We could find two or three more sources to listen to the language English. How many of these resources you can choose, use and take the advantage of? Number three in the list may or may not be possible for you. If you are here, I think you are not considering number eight in the list as well.

Fine, whatever the sources of listening you may consider and take advantage of using, you are required to listen to English language. How are speaking skills connected to listening habits? Which way does this listening help you in speaking? A big question mark, right? Don’t worry. We are about to learn how listening to English helps you in learning speaking.

Listening helps learning speaking

When you start listening to language English, you start picking up the sound patterns of the language.

It’s like, you listen to a song. You first pick up the tune of the song. Later you pick the lyrics of that song. I mean the words that are there in the lines of the song. So, as you listen to language English, you get the tune of English first and the words later. You try to listen to native speakers as many number of times as possible to you….and there you pick up the right tune (sound pattern) of the language. Once you get habituated to the sound of English, it will be easy for you to reproduce those sounds while practicing speaking.

English speaking practice

When you listen to something, you start repeating the words or phrases in the same pattern, just imitate. Initially you may not find situations where you can use those words or sentences. but, keep imitating those very words and sentences. You will start sounding more of a native English speaker in the first place. In other words you made yourself familiar with the sound patterns of the language English.

Watch talk shows and imitate. Talk shows are very natural. They give you the ideas of how English is spoken in everyday life. As you imitate them, you sound natural too.

Listen to English songs. Come on, Everybody likes music. I am sure, you too. Listen to your favourite singer, band. Learn two or three songs, practise singing. Karaoke is one of the best ways to practise and to sing along. You learn how to get your vocal chords produce the kind of sound that is required to speak English fluently.

Listen to English conversations regularly. You find plenty of situational conversations online. Practise one or two conversations daily. Get somebody to be your speaking partner and practise speaking.

Practise giving a speech. If you are good at writing, write your own speech. If not, you can find speeches for different occasions on the internet. Download or take a print out. Stand in front of a mirror and practise speaking.

Dear friends, I hope you got some ideas as how to improve your English speaking skills.

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