How to Practise English Speaking

How to Practise English Speaking | English with Lucy

How to Practise English Speaking | English with Lucy: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to English With Lucy. Today, I am going to teach you about how you can practise your English even if you don’t live in an English speaking country. It’s the number one complaint from my students. How on planet earth can I practise and improve my English if I don’t have native English speakers near me?

Eight English Speaking Tips | English with Lucy

Well, I have eight recommendations for you that how to Practise English Speaking? Let’s get straight into it!1.

Join a language club | English with Lucy
Join an Online Language Challenge | English with Lucy
BBC Sound App | English with Lucy
Find a Native Speaker | English with Lucy
Find a Language Partner | English with Lucy
Use a pronunciation Tool | English with Lucy
Talk to Yourself | English with Lucy
Record Yourself Speaking in English | English with Lucy

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1. Join a language club | English with Lucy

Tip number one is to join a language club, sometimes called a language cafe. And if there isn’t one near you, you need to start one. Be the person that makes the change. You can get it on for little or no cost or not cost in the least . It can be completely free to do.

All you need to think about is the why, the where, and the who. Why is why you’re doing it? What are you going to be practicing?

Maybe you would like to talk just completely in English. Maybe you want to do activities together or do homework together, or maybe you want to set debates and have real in-depth discussions in English. It all depends on the level. That moves me onto who, who is going to come?

Put posters up, launch it on Facebook. Bring your friends first, so you’re not on the only one there. And then of course the where, where are you going to hold it? Well, there are lots of free places where you could hold it. You could start asking your local library. You could try asking a cafe.

Do you mind if on a quiet day, say sort of a Tuesday lunchtime, we’ve a gaggle folks here, and in fact we’ll buy a coffee each or something.

Another good place to try is a local church or religious center. They, more often than not, are going to be very happy to assist you develop your skills for free of charge .

2. Join an Online Language Challenge | English with Lucy

Number two is join an online language challenge. This tip has been sponsored, but is very, very relevant. We are during a new decade, so now’s the right time to actually choose it together with your English fluency, and this is often an incredible option if you are looking for daily practise with native speakers, but you don’t have any around you.

This opportunity is named the Lingoda Sprint Promotion, formerly referred to as the Lingoda Language Marathon. You can join the sprint in English, Spanish, French, German, and business English, and you take a class every day for three months. That’s 30 classes per month if you do the super sprint, and 15 classes per month if you do the regular sprint. I’ve tried Lingoda myself, and I was blown away by the experience.

And Lingoda is now an authorised Linguaskill agent for Cambridge Assessment English, which is a huge accolade and should help you build a lot of trust. All teachers are qualified native speakers, and you can take classes at your convenience anytime, anywhere, as long as you have a stable internet connection.

Group sizes are really small with an average of just three students per class. You study a structured curriculum and every one of your learning materials are provided. The sprint starts on the 29th of January, 2020, and finishes on the 27th of April, 2020.

You have to participate in an agreed number of classes each month to succeed. You can take just one class per day a day . Now, originally, the gates to the sprint were getting to close on the 19th of December, but Lingoda are supplying you with longer , so now confirm you sign up before the 27th of January.

After registering for the sprint you automatically check in for a three-month-long subscription. But you can get 10 Euros off your first month by using my code, SPRINT142.

Upon registration, you agree to make one payment per month for three months, breaking down that total cost, however, and this is the exciting bit, if you complete the sprint by following the rules and attending and participating in every class, you will receive a 100% refund.

How motivating is that? Graduates of previous Lingoda language challenges have said that properly reading the rules is the key to getting that refund. More than 20,000 people have participated in six similar language challenges over the past three years. For many it has completely transformed their lives, allowing them to travel all over the world and advance in their career. They shared their life-changing experience with Lingoda and you’ll check it out on their website which is linked down below and you’ll even have a glance at their Instagram page for more inspiring stories.

So, does one want to rework your English speaking skills and your confidence quickly? Click on the link within the description box and check in using my code, SPRINT142 for 10 Euros off your first month. Best of luck.

3. BBC Sound App | English with Lucy

Now, number three, I do not want to only offer you generic advice like watch TV, hear the radio, because you recognize that. What I’m getting to is recommend you a selected app that you simply can use to immerse yourself every day in spoken English. And most significantly , spoken English at a spread of levels and speeds and with a spread of accents. It’s the BBC Sounds App.

I’ve linked it down below, but it depends on your OS and where you’re within the world, you ought to be ready to hear most podcasts and a lot of radio programmes from wherever you’re within the world. Bear in mind you won’t have access to everything.

This app is full of radio programmes, podcasts, little mini clips, all in spoken English, covering all different topics, whether you like talking about music or you like listening to science documentaries, crime documentaries, discussion podcasts by your favourite sports people. It’s excellent, it’s my go-to app, I listen to it all the time. Now your interests are probably different to my interests. I listen to a lot of consumer programmes where people phone up and complain about the price of peas in the supermarket, things like that, it’s just chewing gum for my brain, but I’d like to recommend programmes just like the Archers, this is often if you’ve got a more advanced level of English, this is a radio soap opera and it’s got a variety of different accents in it.

There is also a children’s section on there, which might be good for your children, but also if you’ve got a rather lower level and you wish to listen to things that are, I’m not going to say more simplified, I’m going to say easier to understand.

Then that would be a very good option for you, there are many short programmes for youngsters , short stories, it is a really, specialized idea to concentrate to children’s programmes, if you’re struggling with understanding adult programmes.

So, the BBC Sounds App, it’s really good, let me know if you find something that you really like and share any programmes that have really helped you improve your English in the comments section.

4. Find a Native Speaker | English with Lucy

Number four is to find native speakers in nearby. Now, i do know that this whole video is about what do I do if there are not any native speakers, but have you ever tried searching within the right way.

British or Americans, I do not know English speakers go abroad, we do wish to meet and congregate. We normally call ourselves expats. Ex-patriots, expats. And this is something that you might not have searched for before. You might have searched British in my city or something like that, but I remember once I lived in Seville, i used to be a part of a Facebook group called Expats in Seville.

Something that a non-native speaker would never think to search for. So, if you want to attend events with other expats and meet expats, then I would recommend searching on Facebook for expat groups. So, expats in, and then your city, your town or even your country.

Lots of expats will be wanting to learn the native language of the country they are living in. So, these Facebook groups would be a great place to post and say, look, I’m looking to improve my English and I’d be more than happy to help you with my language.

5. Find a Language Partner | English with Lucy

Now, tip number five could be linked to the previous one actually. It’s, find a language partner and speak only via WhatsApp voice notes. Now I’m going to say that when you are looking for a WhatsApp partner or any sort of online language partner, please be safe.

Don’t just ask anyone. Use an official place. It’s not safe, there are lots of nasty people out there, who are looking for girlfriends and boyfriends, not language partners. Do not give your mobile number to anyone that you do not fully know and trust.

So, take a native English speaker that you know and then when you communicate with them, ask that they only send you WhatsApp notes and you send them WhatsApp voice notes in return.

The reason that this is great is because you can replay and replay and replay until you understand them. But unlike written English it helps you with your pronunciation as well.

You know now from me that the way a word is written in English doesn’t offer you much indication on how it’s pronounced. Because often the two things are not aligned. And the good thing about replying with voice notes is that if it goes wrong, you’ll stop it and re-record. It means you’ve got a little bit more time to process things and time to think.

6. Use a pronunciation Tool | English with Lucy

Number six is, use a pronunciation tool. If you haven’t got someone who you could ask, “How do I pronounce X? Then use a pronunciation tool. And honestly, I am not offended, but when I get messages saying, “Sorry, how do you pronounce X”, I just think, well you can find this out for yourself very easily, I’ve given lots of examples of pronunciation tools that you can use online.

So maybe use them first and then if you’re totally confused still, then ask a native speaker. The one I recommend is Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, because they show you ways to pronounce things in both British English and American English and they show the phonetic transcription.

So you can listen to them and compare them and see how they differ in the transcription as well. It’s an excellent tool, I’ve linked it down below, I know there are lots out there, this is the one I always use and it’s the one I use when I’m planning my videos.

7. Talk to Yourself | English with Lucy

Number seven, if there really isn’t anyone around you, then you talk to yourself. And I’ve recommended this method before during a how-to-start-thinking-in-English and stop-translating-in-your-head video.

When I’m actively trying to find out another language, I ask myself therein language all the time, whether it’s in my head or whether it’s aloud . Luckily I work from home and I work alone, maybe my neighbour thinks I’m a bit weird. But I also can hear tons of what he does, so.

If he dares say anything. A great one is when you’re cooking, pretend you’re running a cooking show, I am putting this in the pan, I am chopping that.

It will just help you get used to stringing sentences together and help you get used to just chatting mindlessly. Conversation will flow better if you can talk to yourself easily.

8. Record Yourself Speaking in English | English with Lucy

And the last one, number eight, this is one step on from talking to yourself. Record yourself speaking in English. You know when you are a child and you finally hear yourself speaking on a recording for the primary time and you think that , oh my word, I sound so different, I remember that feeling.

How we expect we sound is extremely different to how we actually sound. And so, in your head you might think that you’re pronouncing things correctly, but in reality, you might not be, so sometimes recording yourself reading a passage, just take something from the news or something from a blog if you want a more relaxed tone, you can then use that to analyse how you sound and pinpoint pronunciation mistakes and perhaps grammar mistakes, it’s a really, really good one. I’ve done it to myself multiple times, and I was shocked at the mistakes that I was making, that I thought I didn’t make in Spanish.

And actually, when I watch back my videos, when I’m editing them or when I’m approving the edits on them, I do make so many mistakes that I shouldn’t as a native speaker. They’re just natural mistakes, a lot of you point them out. I just say it from the heart, I have a guide script down here. And yes, looking back at the videos, I do notice tons of little mistakes, natural ones, I’m not worried about them, it doesn’t suggest I even have poor grammar or poor pronunciation, it just means that I’m a human.

Conclusion

Hopefully you’ll be able to use that technique to improve your own language skills. Right, that’s it for today’s lesson, I really hope you enjoyed it and I hope you can take some of these tips and apply them to yourself. Don’t forget to check out the Lingoda sprint promotion, you can get 10 Euros off your first month by using my code, SPRINT142, the link is in the description box. And please feel free to share any other recommendations and tips that have really helped you in your past experience in the comments section down below. Don’t forget to connect with me on all of my social media. I’ve got my Facebook, my Instagram, my Twitter and my personal channel Lucy Bella Earl, I’ll be posting my Q and A on there soon, I know a lot of you have responded to that.