Talking Points for English Learners

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okay today’s topic is

how to start conversations talking

points for language learners

how do you start a conversation in a

language that you’re learning believe it

or not it’s actually very easy to do and

in this lesson we’ll give you tips and

resources to get you speaking more of

your target language you’ll discover one

talking points for language learners two

the top five ways to start a

conversation and three resources to help

you master these talking points

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bedrooms are there and much more with

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third the top 50 marine animals and fish

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to say shark whale dolphin and much more

fourth how to talk about your day in 20

phrases if you can’t talk about your day

yet this one minute lesson will get you

speaking you’ll learn 20 must-know

phrases from talking about waking up and

brushing your teeth to dinner and going

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jump into today’s topic

how to start conversations talking

points for language learners

starting a conversation can be

intimidating for most people even in

their own native language so it’s

understandable if you feel even more

intimidated starting a conversation in

another language but if you do want to

speak more of your target language and

get more practice that’s exactly what

you’ll need to do have conversations

with native speakers

part one talking points for language

learners

the good news is starting a conversation

in another language is much easier

because one native speakers will realize

that you’re learning and will go easy on

you and two you don’t know enough of the

language to worry about saying something

clever and that’s totally fine so you

can easily start with basic phrases

so how exactly do you start a

conversation

you’ll need something called a talking

point a talking point is simply a topic

or a thing to talk about for example

weather’s a very common talking point

you can say nice weather today to

someone and start a conversation from

that and after that you can ask them

where they’re from or talk about the

city like wow this is a great city which

is another basic talking point and now

you have a conversation going all from a

simple talking point and a simple

comment about the weather so what are

some common talking points let’s get

into part two

part two the top five ways to start a

conversation

again a good thing about having

conversations in another language is

that it’s okay and natural to focus on

simple topics for a while so here are

five easy ways to start conversations in

your target language and if you’re

already learning with our language

program then you’ve already learned some

of these within your first few lessons

one introduce yourself in your target

language sometimes starting a

conversation or continuing one is as

simple as introducing yourself you can

also use this if you’ve started with a

different topic like the weather then it

makes sense to say by the way my name is

you’ll learn how to introduce yourself

in the very first lesson of our program

two the weather

people talk about the weather all over

the world so you should learn weather

phrases in your target language just

saying it’s really nice today is enough

to start a conversation

if you want to talk about the weather

check out our can talk about weather

learning pathway this series of lessons

teaches you how to talk about the

weather in your target language

three

compliments compliments are a great way

to start a conversation you can

compliment something about their city

their country or something about their

culture

four ask for help so for example you can

ask for directions about the price of

something and let the conversation go

from there these are very basic phrases

that you learn in our survival phrases

lessons

and five learn phrases for transactions

like getting a room at a hotel or

telling the taxi driver where to go

these are very easy ways to start a

dialogue and you can easily move into

other topics again you learn all of

these with our survival phrases lessons

of course these are not the only talking

points or icebreakers you can use if you

can think of more go ahead and use them

which one would you use leave us a

comment

now how do you actually learn the

language around these talking points

part 3 resources to help you master

these talking points

first take our lessons if you haven’t

yet signed up for a free lifetime

account to our learning program you can

do so now in every lesson you learn a

basic conversation like the weather

introducing yourself asking for

directions and more and this gives you

all the lines you’ll need to start and

continue a conversation in real life and

if you want to find lessons related to a

specific talking point like the weather

you can find them in our lesson library

second use our conversation pdf cheat

sheets these cheat sheets are a quick

summary of our actual lessons and give

you the must-know phrases and vocabulary

for topics like family weather travel

getting directions and much more

third come up with a list of phrases and

questions you’d want to use in a

conversation and then ask your premium

plus teacher for translations or use an

online translation tool although that

may not always be perfect either way

you’ll have lines that you can use to

start conversations

fourth use our free vocabulary and

phrase lists there you’ll find hundreds

of vocabulary and phrase lists across

all kinds of topics holidays common

phrases phrases for weather phrases for

restaurants and much more

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of monthly review

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