10 English speaking practice tips

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hello everyone and welcome back to

english with Lucy today

I’m going to give you 10 tips for

practicing your speaking and hopefully

they will make you improve in a very

short amount of time

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number one is practice tongue twisters

now

tongue twisters are really fun anyway

but they are an amazing way of

practicing individual sounds individual

phonemes there are lots of phonemes that

are really hard for people from specific

countries or that speak specific

languages the only way that you can

train your tongue to make these sounds

is to practice the sounds over and over

again repetitively tongue twisters are

your best friend so for example if

you’re struggling between the difference

with E and E which I know a lot of

people struggle with especially speakers

of Spanish because you only have the e

sound you don’t have the short e sound

well if that’s the case for you you

could practice this one I slit a sheet a

sheet I slit upon a slitted sheet I sit

be careful it might make you swear I

have left a link in the description box

to loads more tongue twisters but really

all you have to do is search on Google

tongue twisters for practicing English

if you would like me to make a video on

some of the most difficult tongue

twisters a video that you can practice

along with let me know in the comments

down below I’ll definitely do that

because I love tongue twisters and I

think they’re amazing for practicing

pronunciation

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now let’s discuss tip number 3 tip

number 3

is sing-along to English songs now this

tip is especially useful if you want to

practice an American accent the reason

for this is that many British singers

actually sing with a slight American

accent

so sometimes songs sung by British

singers aren’t actually a true

representation of their own accent if

you listen to I don’t know one direction

or a British boy band they’ll often sing

with an American accent even ed Sheeran

does it sometimes someone who does sing

with a very strong British accent is

Lily Allen she does not go into the

American territory at all so she’s a

good one to listen to and sing along

with if you want to practice speaking or

singing in this case music can be a

really really great way of practicing

every single day because it’s so

enjoyable it doesn’t feel like it’s a

chore when you do it it’s a great way to

learn lots of slang lots of colloquial

language as well it’s also a really good

idea to look up the meaning of song

lyrics that way you can really find out

if they’ve used bad grammar because

sometimes they do to make it fit in with

the rhyming if they’ve used idioms or

slang and it’s just really nice to know

what you’re singing about but singing

along with English songs is a fantastic

way of practicing your speaking and it

will help you become more fluent tip

number four could be slightly

controversial but I think it’s a really

good tip and I always used to tell my

students to do it in London so lots of

students struggle to meet and find

native speakers to practice with they

often also have a hard time actually

talking to natives because they’re so

nervous or they take a little bit longer

to understand what they say I would say

that’s a great step to proceed talking

with natives is eavesdropping on natives

to eavesdrop means to listen in on

someone else’s conversation so if you’re

in an english-speaking country or you

know there’s a specific bar or

restaurant where English speakers tend

to go maybe try going there with the

intention of just overhearing other

people’s conversations if they say

something you don’t understand set

on your phone just drinking the

atmosphere and you’ll just take in a lot

of vocabulary you wouldn’t normally come

across and there’s no pressure on you

well the only pressure is that you don’t

get caught because you could look a

little bit weird but you’re not doing

you’re not doing any harm some people in

England like to call it people watching

and it’s a really popular pastime you

just sit in a cafe normally at the

window and what the world go by I like

to call this people listening where you

just sit in a cafe and listen to what

other people are saying and familiarize

yourself with English conversations let

me know if you’ve ever done this and let

me know if you’ve ever got caught number

five is oh this is a really good tip

this tip will really really help you if

you’re nervous about speaking English

with natives or non natives practise

conversations through whatsapp audio

notes on whatsapp and on most messaging

services there is a function where you

can record your voice and send it I

encourage my students to talk amongst

themselves and to talk with natives

through this feature it’s so much more

convenient than a phone call and there’s

much less pressure than in a phone call

whatever they send you you can replay it

as many times as you want you can replay

what they’ve said and practice it

yourself you can listen back to your own

voice notes and see where you went wrong

if you record one and you make a mistake

delete it and record it again keep

recording it until you’re happy with how

it sounds when you finish the

conversation you have a lovely database

of everything you’ve said in English and

everything someone has said in English

to you and you can use that to study

what’s that voice notes and other voice

notes services are such a great way of

practicing your speaking without

actually chatting in the moment you can

do it around your studies around your

work it’s much more convenient than a

phone call tip number six can actually

relate back to tip number five it’s

practice debating now I don’t tend to

argue a lot but when I do argue with

someone I always think back about the

argument at a later date

and think oh god

could have said that so much better I

could have made this point blah blah

blah you will never be good arguing and

debating if you don’t practice it apart

from those few people who seem to be

naturals

I suggest participating in or creating a

debate club now you could do this over

Skype or you could do it over whatsapp

whatsapp would be my preference every

day you can choose a new topic to

discuss and debate and make sure it’s

done in an orderly fashion so everyone

can say their opinion maybe make a voice

note limit of 30 seconds or 15 seconds

or a minute if it’s a really big topic

maybe you could create a Facebook group

for it maybe you could create a whatsapp

group amongst your friends you could

also meet people online but just

remember to be very very careful and

keep everything private and don’t let

anyone know where you live but consider

creating a whatsapp debate group and

debating through whatsapp voice notes

it’s a really really great way of

practicing your speaking and your

conversation skills tip number seven is

keep and idioms and slang diary this

could be in the notes app on your phone

or this could be an actual written

notebook every time you come across a

new slang word or a new idiom write it

down at the very least and it’s also

best to write down the meaning as well

I remember in Spain I would hear so many

slang words so many idiomatic phrases

and I would always forget them all when

I started noting them down that’s when I

started remembering them I’d be in a

conversation and I’d want to use that

sort of idiom but I couldn’t remember

how to say it well I just whipped out my

phone looked at my list and it was there

you can’t expect yourself to just

remember loads and loads of idioms you

have to use them so don’t be ashamed of

taking out your list and using it in the

moment tip number eight this is so fun

and it’s something I do a lot host your

own cooking show every single night I

bet so many of you have done this before

but it’s a really really great way of

practicing a language every time you

cook or every time you make something or

you’re cleaning pretend you’re hosting a

show talk about what you’re doing it’s a

fantastic opportunity to practice

English and practice speaking without

having someone else

to speak with it’s a really great way of

practicing the present continuous as

well I am boiling the water I am adding

the rice maybe go a bit more advanced

and say I’m just adding a pinch of this

because it adds an element of flavor

honestly go all out you could even

record yourself maybe that’s too far for

some people but this is just about using

every opportunity you have to speak

English

tip number nine is remember to

prioritize fluency over accuracy if

you’re fluent in a language it doesn’t

mean you are absolutely perfect at that

language it means that you can speak it

without thinking without stopping for

most people

aiming for 100% accuracy perfection in a

language is just an unattainable goal I

don’t speak English perfectly I make

mistakes all the time

I said growed in another video oh so

embarrassing comment down below if you

know which video that is because um it

was recent don’t beat yourself up over

making mistakes remain positive learn

from your mistakes laugh at your

mistakes and celebrate speaking English

fluently and speaking English without

thinking over speaking English without

making any mistakes tip number 10 is

read a book completely aloud lots of

people like to read books at home it’s

their relaxation time but if you’re at

home and if you read alone take the

opportunity to read aloud it’s a great

way to practice your pronunciation to

practice your speaking maybe record

yourself as well if a book is too long

or you feel like it takes away from your

relaxation time then try reading aloud

one article every day or something from

a newspaper if you do it on a daily

basis you’ll come across loads of new

words and phrases and you’ll also

practice saying them and they will stick

in your mind for future use right that’s

it for today’s lesson I hope you enjoyed

it and I hope you learned something

please comment down below with any other

tips that you can think of don’t forget

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