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How to improve your English speaking skills by yourself?
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I think you already know that if you want to improve your English speaking skills,
you have to practice, right? You have to speak. Studying grammar will never
improve your speaking. Listening to English alone will never improve your
speaking. You have to actually speak. But what if you don’t have someone to talk
to in English? How can you practice then? Well, there’s a technique that allows
you to learn to speak English by yourself. No speaking partner is required. This
technique can help improve many aspects of your spoken English: your sentence
structure, your grammar, your vocabulary, and most importantly, your ability to
express your thoughts and ideas effectively. So what is this technique?
Well, here’s what it is: Learning to speak English through Imitation. When I say
imitation, I’m not talking about repeating after native speakers using the exact
same words to improve your pronunciation. I’m talking about something a little
more advanced than that. Here’s how it works: you listen to a conversation, a
story, or some kind of speech, and then try to deliver that speech in your own
words.
Let’s see this technique in action:
“When I was a child- When he was a child.

My parents liked to pretend, like many other parents- His parents liked to pretend,
like many other parents.
That Santa Clause would bring us presents at Christmas- His parents liked to
pretend that Santa Claus would bring them presents at Christmas.
So when my siblings and I would wake up on Christmas morning- So when he
and his siblings would wake up on Christmas morning.
There’d be a bunch of presents, from supposedly Santa Claus, sitting in front of
the fireplace - There’d be a bunch of presents, from supposedly Santa Claus,
sitting in front of the fireplace”
So that’s how it works. But that’s just one way to do it. There’re other ways too.
For example, instead of imitating small portions of speech like phrases and short
sentences, you can imitate larger portions of speech. So in this case, you wait until
the speaker completes a thought or an idea, then pause and try to express that idea
yourself.
Another approach is to simply listen to the whole speech and then try to deliver
that entire speech yourself. So there are several ways to go about it but what I
recommend is to combine them all together, and I call this approach easy-to-hard
imitation. Easy-to-hard imitation is based on the concept of progressive training.
This idea is that you start with something easy and then increase the difficulty of
the activity, forcing yourself to get better. A number of studies have found this
kind of training to be very effective.
Here’s how you can apply this concept: start by imitating small portions of speech
first like phrases and short sentences, then move on to imitating larger portions of
speech like long sentences or even groups of sentences and finally, try to deliver
the entire speech on your own. This technique offers many benefits. You get to
listen and imitate correct English which helps you learn to form sentences
properly. You get to learn idioms, expressions and other speaking patterns that are
used in day-to-day conversations.
You get to learn grammar. When you imitate other people, you’re learning
grammar through process called implicit learning. This is the process where the
learning happens without your awareness. This is how babies and children learn
the grammar rules of their first language. When you imitate, you don’t think about
grammar. You’re not trying to understand why the presents perfect tense in used in
this situation or in that situation. Instead, you’re focused on communication- on
understanding and expressing ideas. You’re still learning grammar but you’re not
aware that it’s happening. This is one of the proper ways to learn grammar.
Ok that concludes this video. To help get started I’ve put together a step-by-step
tutorial on this technique. If you’re interested, click here to go to that tutorial.
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3. Summary of main points: How to improve your English speaking skills by
yourself?
 Way 1: Through imitation. It means you listen to some kind of speech, and
then try to deliver that speech in your own words.
 Way 2: You wait until the speaker completes a thought or an idea, then pause
and try to express that idea yourself
 Way 3: You simply listen to the whole speech and then try to deliver that entire
speech yourself
Easy-to-hard imitation: start by imitating small portions of speech and finally,
try to deliver the entire speech on your own
Forming sentences properly
Benefits Learning idioms, expressions…
Learning grammar - Implicit learning: You’re still learning grammar
by understanding and expressing ideas but not aware that it’s happening.
4. New words
- Imitation /ˌɪm.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/(n) : made to look like something else
- Sibling /ˈsɪb.lɪŋ/ (n): a brother or sister:
- Day-to-day: happening every day as a regular part of your job or life
- Implicit /ɪmˈplɪs.ɪt/(a): suggested but not communicated directly
- Step-by-step: one at a time in a particular order.
Name: Nguyễn Thị Hải Yến

Class: E13
Link video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAU2zx2Ri_M

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How to improve your English speaking skills by yourself?

you to learn to speak English by yourself. No speaking partner is required. This

express your thoughts and ideas effectively. So what is this technique?

Let’s see this technique in action:

“When I was a child- When he was a child.

like many other parents.

pretend that Santa Claus would bring them presents at Christmas.

So when my siblings and I would wake up on Christmas morning- So when he

and his siblings would wake up on Christmas morning.

There’d be a bunch of presents, from supposedly Santa Claus, sitting in front of

the fireplace - There’d be a bunch of presents, from supposedly Santa Claus,

sitting in front of the fireplace”

imitation. Easy-to-hard imitation is based on the concept of progressive training.

kind of training to be very effective.

used in day-to-day conversations.

this situation or in that situation. Instead, you’re focused on communication- on

tutorial on this technique. If you’re interested, click here to go to that tutorial.

then try to deliver that speech in your own words.

and try to express that idea yourself

Easy-to-hard imitation: start by imitating small portions of speech and finally,

try to deliver the entire speech on your own

Forming sentences properly

Benefits Learning idioms, expressions…

Learning grammar - Implicit learning: You’re still learning grammar

- Imitation /ˌɪm.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/(n) : made to look like something else

- Sibling /ˈsɪb.lɪŋ/ (n): a brother or sister:

- Day-to-day: happening every day as a regular part of your job or life

- Implicit /ɪmˈplɪs.ɪt/(a): suggested but not communicated directly

- Step-by-step: one at a time in a particular order.

Name: Nguyễn Thị Hải Yến

Link video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAU2zx2Ri_M

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