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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but first here are this month’s new
lessons and resources be sure to
download these now before we take them
down in a few days first the renting an
apartment conversation cheat sheet learn
how to say how much is the rent how many
bedrooms are there and much more with
this new pdf cheat sheet
second visual flash cards that’ll
improve your vocabulary want to speak
more of the target language you’ll need
to learn more words and with our new
printable visual flash cards you’ll
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cards out
third the top 50 marine animals and fish
how well do you know animal names in
your target language
with this quick lesson you’ll learn how
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
to sleep
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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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