How To Speak English Confidently 5 Tricks

five tricks to speak confidently

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number one the first trick is for you to

connect the information and your

audience you see the more interested

your audience is the more confident you

will feel because of their reaction now

you also have to remember that the more

value you give the more confident you

will feel in other words value equals

confidence and also in order to connect

the information you must know your

audience who you’re actually speaking to

by knowing them this will also give you

more confidence ie connection equals

confidence so let’s see this in some

examples so for example let’s say you

are speaking about personal hobbies

you’re in a conversation and then you

have to give your opinion how can you

improve your confidence well you can

think about the hobbies of the

individuals you are speaking to maybe

they like video games or movies or music

and you use that information to find

common hobbies between yourself and the

audience or the person you’re speaking

with or you can make a comment related

to their hobby if they mentioned it

before or you can even ask a question

about their hobby

once again connecting the information to

the person you’re speaking with which

will improve your confidence or let’s

say for example you’re speaking about a

second language and the individuals you

are talking to have also spoken a second

language in the past or have learned or

studied a second language well

you can connect to them by finding out

if they spoke French or German or

Spanish or even Arabic or Italian and

then restate a previous point they made

about language or then ask more details

about the language that they speak you

see the entire time you’re focused on

connecting the information with your

audience now let’s say for example

you’re speaking to someone about family

and children and you find out that they

have kids and you also have kids maybe

you have four kids that’s a lot but

maybe you have four kids and you can

connect that by speaking about the

similarities between your family and the

listeners family and you can also ask

more questions and restate their answers

remember the more you connect the

information the more interested the

person will be that’s listening to you

which will end up making you feel more

confident now number two number two is

focus on your main speaking points you

see this removes your nervousness

because you know exactly what you want

to say you’re not focusing on ten things

you’re only focusing on the main points

that you want to mention it will also

help you to stay on topic which will

lead to you feeling more confident you

won’t get confused and also those

listening to you will be able to follow

along easily which will again help you

feel more confident because of their

response to you so let’s see some

examples let’s say for example you are

speaking about the weather and you’re

giving a presentation

well again you want to focus on your

main speaking points so I’ve chosen

three right here for example a student

of mine he was talking about the weather

so he focused on his favorite type of

weather his country and also his least

favorite type of weather so what happens

is selecting three types of weather to

talk about helps him not to think about

every type of weather but only the main

speaking points that he wanted to speak

about and also it helps them to make

specific points about those three types

why is sunny weather his favorite why is

it so cloudy in his country and why is

rainy weather his least favorite okay

again focusing on your main speaking

points helps you to be more confident

now let’s say you’re speaking about

healthy food so you’re giving a

presentation in a classroom or to your

co-workers and you have to speak about

healthy food well again you’ve picked

three main points your preference the

benefits of healthy food and also

different types of healthy foods for

example veggies which is another way of

saying vegetables fruit or even whole

wheat bread now what happens is you’re

gonna mention your personal preference

explain the benefits in a simple way and

then discuss the different types you see

giving simple information is okay and it

will help you feel more confident

because you know the information now

let’s say we were talking about

education okay so you have to give your

opinion now again on the Left you’ll see

for my student I chose three different

things his educational or personal

background various styles of education

and then his favorite style so again

these are the things that will be the

focus of his presentation or his talk so

what happens is he knows exactly what

his main speaking points are which gives

him so much confidence now number three

number three is simplify the information

this is so important you see by

simplifying you will be able to use the

words and terms that you are familiar

with which equals more confidence now as

an english learner you are always

learning new things but you have to put

them into use

and when you do that equals more

confidence now the second thing is this

will help you think clearer which will

equal more confidence you see when you

stop trying to do new things or use new

words and instead use the words you know

you will be more relaxed okay

and finally it will be easier for others

to understand your point which will

result in better reactions and more

confidence you see when you explain a

difficult point in a simple way it’s

easy for those to understand who are

listening to you so even as an American

I do the same thing okay all right so

let’s see this in some examples for

example if you’re speaking about

politics now you learn about politics on

the news from the internet from

magazines from newspapers and from

professors so let’s say you want to

discuss politics which is a difficult

topic well you can simplify the

information maybe you want to talk about

speeches or the election or news stories

what you’re going to do is explain the

current situation what’s going on then

give the general opinion of the public

and finally give your personal opinion

it sounds simple right but you see

that’s how you gain confidence by being

able to organize your thoughts so even

if you’re talking about pollution okay

pollution let’s say for example you

watched a TED talk or you read a

magazine or a newspaper article or even

had a conversations about pollution

there’s a lot of information about

pollution because of our world and what

it’s going through plastic or chemical

fumes are toxic waste but you can

simplify it

give three causes for pollution give

your opinion and give a possible

solution you see I immediately

simplified the information and that’s

what you need to do because that will

improve and increase your confidence now

let’s say for example we were talking

about taxes another complicated issue so

this is the thing let’s say for example

it’s the time of year where you need to

do your taxes and you have your

whether it be your husband or your wife

and you’re discussing your taxes and now

you want to speak confidently about

taxes in English where where do you file

them how do you file them and how much

is your refund all of these things are

complicated but if you break it down for

example in this way how does your

country do taxes what’s the overall or

general public opinion of taxes and then

what’s your personal opinion you see

again I simplified the information you

can’t talk about everything at one time

but you can talk about important pieces

of information related to the topic now

number four number four is don’t

apologize

I really want to emphasize this don’t

apologize to the listener I have many

students that do that but you see when

you do that you begin to immediately

feel insecure and others may doubt your

ability so you start a conversation with

the other person doubting your ability

to continue the conversation so don’t

apologize also when you apologize you

start focusing on your weaknesses

instead of your strengths I want you to

remember that you are doing good don’t

focus on your weaknesses and also when

you apologize

others may lose interest in what you are

about to say which will make you feel

less confident their expressions may

change or their body language may also

change so don’t apologize now let’s see

what we can do instead of apologizing so

say for example there’s an unknown topic

you’re in a group and you really don’t

understand what is going on and this may

happen you feel overwhelmed and you feel

confused so instead of apologizing start

by restating what was previously said so

whatever you heard them say say it again

and then ask for more information you

see you’re gonna feel more confident

because you don’t know the information

but they are gonna give you more and you

can listen and try to understand okay or

let’s say for example you are with

higher level

learners maybe your level two and their

level six or your level four and they’ve

graduated and they’re speaking with

other foreigners on a regular basis so

you feel insecure maybe one person

studied in America and you didn’t

one person has an English tutor and you

don’t or one person was an English major

or even works at an international

company and you feel very insecure well

instead of apologizing just start

speaking don’t worry about their

opinions or levels so many students have

done that in my class where they feel

like another student is better than them

and they apologize or they feel insecure

don’t do that it’s okay just try or

let’s say for example you do get in a

situation with native speakers where

it’s your first time meeting them and

you don’t necessarily know what to say

the truth is Americans and people from

other native english-speaking countries

are usually willing to talk and are

friendly and they’re not shy to speak in

their mother tongue so simply smile and

start talking or ask them to repeat what

they said if you didn’t understand but

don’t apologize okay all right and

number five what I want you to do is use

silence and pauses as you speak now this

may be something new to you you see

using the proper pauses actually

emphasizes certain points you see I just

paused and it emphasized the point I am

making right now it gives you time to

gather your thoughts so that you can

think in a clearer way and also it helps

you make eye contact and connect with

your audience you see all of these

things are important to making you feel

more confident when you speak in English

so for example let’s say you are giving

a speech and you want to use silence and

pauses as you speak now your speech may

be quite long but you need time to think

because it’s a long speech so try to

pause in between important points just

like I did a few more

ago or let’s say for example you have an

examination and it’s an oral or a spoken

examination and they’re asking you

questions in English well they are

grading you as you speak and they may be

giving you lots of questions but

remember to take a short pause between

questions before you answer you can

pause that’s okay and it shows

confidence because you are thinking

about what you would like to say a short

pause or let’s say for example someone

has said something already and you want

to respond well you can pause for a

moment before you comment they’ve said

something now you take your time and

after restating or emphasizing a

previous comment that they made you can

pause I promise you this is so powerful

when it comes to English conversation

and English fluency okay use silence and

pauses as you speak and that’s how you

can become more confident in English I

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