Why Is Your Speaking Level Lower Than Your Listening Level
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm why is your speaking level
lower than your listening level let’s
talk about it to answer this question i
want to ask you another question in your
native language is your reading level
higher than your speaking level
can you read words and understand words
that you don’t use in daily conversation
well for English it’s true for me when I
read a book there are plenty of words
that I know what they are but I never
use them in conversation maybe they’re
high level words or they’re just words
that I don’t find necessary to use in
daily life but this means that even in
my native language I know words that I
don’t use let me give you a quick
example i just opened a book on my
bookshelf and found one of the first
sentences and it used two words but i
hardly ever use in daily conversation
let me redo the sentence it says I went
expecting to see people denigrating the
language and instead I found them
reveling in it hmmm the word denigrating
and reveling I hardly ever use in daily
conversation but I know what they mean
and it’s probably the thing for you to
in your native language your reading
level is higher than your speaking level
and reading and listening are quite
similar because they are input skills
you’re not creating something you are
just taking information into your mind
so writing and speaking are a little
similar because you’re creating language
you’re making sentences but reading and
listening are just input kind of passive
skills I want to ask you a second
question I promise that I will answer
the question myself but I want to ask
you a second question first
when you were a child did you understand
your native language before you started
speaking it well I think so this is
pretty common unless you are an amazing
genius one of a kind most people listen
to their native language for years from
their parents before they start to make
beautiful sentences they start by
speaking slowly and maybe just a couple
words but usually when their parents
give some kind of directions can you do
this where is this the kids understand
perfectly fine but they never make those
sentences for themselves at least not
yet so our natural listening skills our
passive skills are easier to develop
those come first and then our active
skills like writing and speaking they
come second we just saw that it’s
natural that your speaking skills are
lower then you’re listening or reading
skills but how can you improve your
speaking skills because maybe they will
never be the same level even in English
in my native language they’re not the
same level but how can you improve your
speaking well the first thing is to
spend time speaking you probably spend
more time listening or more time reading
in English then you spend speaking
English it’s pretty normal because we
don’t always have people around us to
speak English to it’s easier to listen
to a podcast or watch a YouTube video
like right now you can do this passive
skill more often than actively speaking
so I challenge you to simply find more
time to speak I have a couple videos
where I give examples and ideas of how
to speak if you don’t know any English
speakers maybe none of your friends are
learning English I
make sure that I post a link to this
video at the end so that you can take a
look at some ideas of how you can start
speaking now but my biggest
recommendation is to speak more if you
are listening to English for 30 minutes
every day and you’re only speaking
English for 30 minutes once a week you
need to raise that level if you want it
to become closer to your listening level
I hope that this lesson today was useful
for you and I hope to answer this
question because it’s really important
to feel certain that you’re on the right
path so I’ll make sure I post a link to
the video so that you can check out some
ideas for how to improve your speaking
and let us know in the comments below is
your listening level higher than your
speaking levels I’m curious what it’s
like for you tell us your experience and
maybe even tell us in your native
language do you think that in your
native language you’re listening and
reading level or higher than your
speaking let’s talk about it in the
comments I can’t wait to see what you
have to say and I’ll talk to you later
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