But now you do get us to there. I believe this is the best way to join the native speakers. This final lesson is absolutely helpful! So, if you want to become fluent, you need to expand your speaking vocabulary.
In this module, I teach you an advanced technique called Imitation. I truly believe that Imitation is the best language-learning technique in the world. Although Imitation is very effective, it can be difficult for beginners.
So, in the first lesson of Module 3, I teach another technique called Parroting, which is a simplified version of Imitation. I show you all the steps required and let you see me perform the technique on screen. But thanks to all the questions and feedback from students who purchased the first three editions of the course, the eBook has been updated to include new information and insights.
It now has 5, words of useful tips and tricks. Want to know what to expect from the Imitation technique? I have been downloading a lot of podcasts especially those ideas and concepts that are connected with my field of work.
Now I had master a 1-minute talk that i downloaded in TED talks podcast without consciously retrieving the words or phrases. It was just coming out automatically. It is really amazing. I am really excited of what my progress will be like in the months to come.
I am looking forward to be more like you in the near future. Thank you so much and Godbless. This course is 69 US dollars. The course consists of video lessons, audio lessons, transcripts for all the lessons, and an eBook. Step 2 : After the payment, you will immediately receive the download link for the course via email. This is entirely up to you. This allows you to complete the lessons in Modules 1 and 2 more quickly. Which means that you can start using the Imitation technique taught in Module 3 sooner.
Unfortunately, you can only buy the course with a credit card or PayPal. These two methods are the safest way to purchase something online because the transaction is managed by a third party. You can transfer me money using a service like Western Union. Of course, I would never do that. Do you know someone who has a credit card? Maybe you can ask that person to purchase the course for you, and then you can pay them back by cash. Or you can create a PayPal account, then link your bank account to that PayPal account.
It depends on your current English level and how good your pronunciation is. I spent a lot of time creating this course. This budget includes hiring native speakers to help me proofread and record the lessons, hiring artists to draw illustrations, buying video editing software and other equipment, etc. I hope you understand. The payment system will calculate how much you have to pay in your currency based on the current exchange rate , and that amount will be deducted from your balance.
Yes, you can. These file types are very common. They are supported by most computers, tablets, and smartphones. Have other questions about the course? My email is contact engfluent. Home Blog About Contact. Screenshots from the video tutorial. How much time a day should I practice with the course? With that said, be careful not to rush because the lessons are meant to be used several times.
I don't have a credit card or PayPal. Is there another way to purchase? How many times should I practice each lesson? My advice is to practice each lesson until… The lesson has become easy for you. You can say all the sentences in that lesson clearly and with good-enough pronunciation. Can you give me this course for free?
I think I deserve to get paid for this. Bonus: Try translating the everyday objects you see on your commute into the words you know in English. Double Bonus: if you have a commute that involves public transport and you are around other English speakers, try speaking with them! Have a plan! Habit 5: You usually make a plan for your day, right? Well this habit is going to take that a step further! Make the effort to think about what you will do each day, in English!
Do this task as you would in your native language. Use as many words in English as you can without looking them up in the dictionary. Try to write it in another way in English using simple words you already know.
The important thing is that you are using English as a tool for success in your daily activities. Stay organized and keep your to- do list at your fingertips no matter where you go using your smartphone or a small pocket-sized notepad. Make these five suggestions part of your morning routine.
Remember to pair them with those 7 tips I told you about before. You will feel the power of putting your English improvement first in your day. Think in English One of the best ways to improve your fluency is to think in English. Most non-native English speakers are still translating from their own native language into English in their heads. But, if you can train your brain to start thinking in English, you just might find that conversations become a little bit easier.
You could begin with just one short sentence and repeat it over and over for a few minutes. Repeat those to yourself in your mind several times for a few minutes, meditating on the meaning as you say them to yourself. Is there a real-life situation where you might use the words in the song?
Start labeling those things in English, in your head. But do it in English. Start with a short story that you might tell a child and see how complicated you can make it only using the English words you know! Maybe a situation you are anticipating? Imagine a conversation in your mind based on what you would say the next time you have the chance to speak English. Think of words or phrases and images to go along with them.
You could identify objects in your mind, or imagine the phrase spelled out in your mind like text in a book. Then, find out the answers. You can do this by asking help from your friends who speak the language, ask your teacher or search online.
The important thing is to think using English words. So, try making a weird and wacky nonsensical poem, or just let your mind wander freely in English! The crazier, the better! Go wild! Using paper and pencil, or your laptop, just write anything that comes to mind in English.
Time yourself. Start with 10 minutes and add more minutes each time you do this exercise. This is a good way to push yourself to stay in English and produce more thoughts without stopping. Common Mistakes to Avoid Why does it seem like some English learners are gifted? Why do some English learners reach fluency and confidence faster than others?
Why does it feel so difficult to be really fluent in English? If you are doubting your ability to learn English fluently, see if you may be making some of these common mistakes and learn to avoid them. You must be an independent learner! Everyone who can speak one language can learn a second one. It is your human ability and it is almost impossible not to speak a second language when you learn with the right method. We believe in you. Now you need to believe in you, too!
Listening English learners create a lot of problems for themselves when they try to equate the spelling of a word with the way it sounds in conversation. Put simply, English spelling does not always clearly inform us of the way a word sounds. One reason for the multitude of pronunciations is that many English words are borrowed from other languages. Welcome to English! Learning English the traditional way makes listening to real native conversations even harder.
The way we say words can change depending on where and how we learned English. Standard English, the way reporters speak, is the rule — but many native speakers do not talk like that. How do you improve your listening skills?
You need to start with an open mind, immerse yourself in the sounds of English, and use the Go Natural English method to help you remember all the sounds as you hear them in conversation.
The best way to think about this, particularly for mastering speaking fluency, is to remember how the words sound to you, instead of how they are spelled in English. You can listen and copy what you hear. Say the word or phrase immediately after you hear it. This helps not only your own understanding of spoken English, but it will also help you to sound more like a native speaker yourself if you can mimic those same sounds. As you continue to improve your English language proficiency, your vocabulary will also increase and you will begin to understand more and more of what you hear.
The key here is immersion. Immerse yourself into the English language as much as possible and you will see great progress. Try to speak English as much as you can. Seek out native speakers and start conversations using words and phrases that you are learning. Read books to increase your vocabulary and grammar skills, and watch different TV shows and movies to fine-tune your listening skills.
Yes, even those movies that are fun to watch can help you learn! Fluent in 15 Minutes Watch a TV show you enjoy and shadow what the characters say. To shadow means to repeat what you hear immediately, as soon as you can. Do this for a few minutes, then repeat and review. This exercise will be easier with subtitles, but be careful because you should repeat what you hear not simply read out loud.
If you read subtitles out loud, you may read them using rules from your native language. This does not help your accent improve. Just try to repeat as much as possible! You can do this with music too. Well then, this next lesson is for you! Also, consider the setting; people talking, and what it is they are most likely talking about. Fluent in 15 Minutes Read or watch a short news story in English. Are there words you are unfamiliar with? Try guessing the meanings through the context of the story.
It really helps you to remember new words and how to use them. Pronunciation At first, you may find it difficult to speak like a native. There are some specific sounds that give English learners a challenge no matter where you are from. Remember that when you see a letter of the alphabet in an English word, it may make sounds that are very different from the sounds the letter makes in your native language!
That is why you must listen with your ears, not your eyes. Be careful not to read or speak in English using pronunciation rules from your first language. This next section will help you to identify some of the more confusing sounds in the English language and hopefully, how to master their pronunciation in certain words.
In English consonants love to stay together. This can be difficult to know how to pronounce. The most common mistake is to add extra vowel sounds. You need to say each sound without adding any extra vowel sounds. Practice saying the following sounds separately. Next say them together slowly. Finally, say them together quickly. Repeat until you feel comfortable. Each vowel — a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y — has a short and a long pronunciation.
This is especially important to note because if you exchange a short vowel for a long vowel - or vice versa - you can completely change the word.
Even so, if you want to master fluency, you need to master vowels in English. For example: App short vs. Record yourself. Listen to your pronunciation. Get a native speaker to give you feedback. Re-do it if needed. In fact, you should not pronounce every sound exactly as you might think it should sound. English words have strong and weak parts, known as syllables. This is really important for any long word with more than one syllable.
Syllables just help you to remember where the emphasis goes in each word. Fluent in 15 Minutes Say these words with the correct schwa sound. Use an online audio dictionary to check how they should sound. Record yourself and compare to the official dictionary audio or check with a native speaker. Well, that can be a common occurrence in language learning as well because there is so much to take in. Learning English is a new skill, and it requires the same effort as learning any other skill.
Just relax, and learn new words or phrases while continuing to use the ones that you already use in your conversations. Everything around you can be turned into a vocabulary lesson. For example, read license plates out loud while you commute to work. Name things you see around you. Fluent in 15 Minutes Make a list of everything you see around you.
Time yourself for 15 minutes and write down everything — objects, textures, actions, etc. Stop memorizing lists of vocabulary as individual words. Vocabulary is best learned by applying word pairs or in phrases. You probably want to put words together into sentences, right? It is essential to learn and practice with more than one word at a time.
Using words in pairs makes it easier to create sentences and express full thoughts. Many words love to be together just like best friends. Using words in pairs also affects our listening and pronunciation.
Note that sometimes when we use two words together, the word sounds change. And sometimes the sounds are deleted. Though, you will hear some native speakers separate these two words distinctly. Natives change and omit sounds, causing you to feel natives are speaking faster than they really are.
Knowing how words and sounds act together is a very important part of becoming a great English speaker. Repeat them in your mind, out loud, write them down, create your own imaginary conversations with them and paste them into your own real conversations! Remember Vocabulary Is it difficult to remember new words? Stop memorizing vocabulary only through repetition! Use these three steps to rapidly increase your memory for new English words and phrases.
Make a pathway Build a bridge between the receptors in your brain. Imagine having two cliffs that are separate and you want to build a bridge to bring the two cliffs together.
This is not easy because you have old thinking patterns but you need to keep working hard to create the pathway. How should you create the neural pathways? Think about your learning style. How do you learn best? Do you learn by listening?
Then spend your time listening! Do you learn through physical movement? Do more of that while you are learning English. Make connections Connect what you learn in English with something else that you already know.
You could connect a new vocabulary word with an old one. Connect a new vocabulary word with a sound, image, number — anything that you can think of that makes sense to you. Another way to do this is to create a mnemonic new-mAHn-ick device. A mnemonic device is a tool that you can use to remember words, such as an acronym. Everyone creates their own mnemonic devices in their own way. You need to write, speak, and use the language. You need to analyze what you are learning. Think about how English can help you in your day-to-day life.
Use English to learn about something else going on in your life. For speaking and understanding English fluently and naturally, building vocabulary is more important than learning all of the proper grammar rules.
Many English learners feel a big distance between their high school English class and the way native speakers converse in the present day. Textbook English can seem old- fashioned and stiff—not how you want people to see you! You are a modern, smart and fun person—so you want people to understand that from the way you speak! It is best to choose a person who is currently famous, around your same age and gender.
Watch clips of this person speaking on YouTube, or listen to their songs. Try to notice some phrases that they commonly use and copy them for your own conversations.
Try to notice how they use gestures, or other ways of communication; like their flow and rate of speaking, and copy it. When it is time to speak English, imagine you are this famous English-speaking person! It is a real confidence boost! You get out of your English learning effort what you put into it.
Grammar English, just like any other language, has a lot of rules. And as is often the case, these rules are difficult, confusing and one of the hardest parts to master when learning a new language. The good news is you can go a long way by focusing on only the most common verb tenses.
The simple past and simple present are probably the two most common verb tenses. Conversational English by its very nature tends to be less formal and restrictive than the written language. This phrase is often used to speak of the future but with a link to the present. Two Principles for Fast Fluency Like all languages English has many grammar rules and infinite ways of making sentences.
For this reason, many English learners can become frustrated and lose motivation because they cannot learn everything quickly. Keep it simple and learn enough quickly. To do that, there are two principles that you should know that will help you on your English-language learning journey. Principle 1: Minimum Viable Grammar How much grammar do you really need?
For a difficult English test, you should know all of the rules. If you still have trouble with some of those six tenses and really just want to communicate, you can make yourself understood with the creative use of one, two or three tenses—the simple past, simple present, and future.
You have to start somewhere. Think about the minimum viable grammar you would need for the situations you are likely to have. Do not learn grammar just to know the grammar, just in case you might someday need it. Think backward from the situation or context you want to experience, and prepare the grammar you will need for the specific event.
It will help you to focus your time and energy on what really matters. So what does it mean? What does this mean for you while learning English? In other words, focus on the words that people use to communicate on a daily basis not challenging academic words, unless you need them for a test or advanced reading assignment. Or can you? How do you bounce back from a mistake in the middle of a conversation?
It really all depends on whether or not your mistake affects the overall meaning of what you originally meant to say. Just let it go. Everybody makes mistakes, even native speakers. All the time! So just take a deep breath and keep talking.
Fluent in 15 Minutes Learn a little; use it a lot! Select a verb tense, for example the present perfect, and write as many sentences and questions as you can in 15 minutes. Use a stopwatch to time yourself. You can repeat this exercise for each verb tense. You can check those with a native speaker later. Just let yourself write freely. Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda! These are terms that can seem confusing to new English learners but you can learn to use them properly in your English conversations and your writings.
So what is the difference between these three forms of the conditional perfect tense? You think events should have happened one way, while they actually happened a different way. Which is to say one thing might have happened one way, had the conditions been just right. Are you feeling lost as an independent learner without a teacher to tell you the right way? Luckily, nowadays we have tools like search engines that we can actually use to show us the right way.
Use Google. Culture Language can not be separated from culture. Language is a reflection of the history and people that it came from. First, you may notice that English feels faster or slower than your native language. In other more animated conversations, you may notice zero wait time and people may even be talking on top of each other, interrupting, to join the conversation. Observe and apply appropriate wait time for your conversations in English based on the situation and the people.
Next, there are some taboo topics in English. Unless you are familiar with a person, we tend to avoid discussing gender, race, religion, politics, economic class, money, age and relationship status.
Avoid making jokes, confronting, debating or asking direct questions too soon about these topics. Small Talk Small talk is considered an art! Many native speakers have trouble mastering it. However, you can be great at small talk without having perfect English! Mastering small talk requires being a good listener, asking easy questions to answer, and making connections with your conversation partner. Common topics include weather, work, family, future plans, local special events, the immediate environment and hobbies.
Think more about how you can connect with a new person instead. Two of my favorite ways to start a conversation with anyone are: Ask a question. Get some simple information, like directions, the time, or a schedule. Give a compliment. Tell someone they look great, or their pet is cute, or they have a nice shirt… whatever makes sense in the situation! Ask someone about that! Your conversation can be in person or online, or even in your own head!
Today, can you start a conversation with someone in English using one of these? Try giving yourself a daily English challenge like speaking to a stranger! Deep Conversation Many people, native and non-native English speakers alike, get stuck in superficial conversation. What about when you want to bring the conversation to a deeper level?
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