Do you have a difficulty in explaining what you want when you speak to people in English? Your grammar is perfect, your vocabulary is rich and your listening skills are strong, but you still have great problems with speaking. Right?
This is not everything. Because of problems with speaking you feel yourself inferior, shy, angry and/or frustrated. I also felt just like you when I was learning English. I was happy with my grammar and other skills but my speaking was really and really bad. Not a sentence but I even could not connect two words together and kick them out of my mouth. I was so scared and so shy.
But as the days passed by I realized that I should definitely need to act, change and solve my problems with speaking. In this post I will share with you some of things I did when I was at the first year of my university studies and if you have your own ideas, I will be only happy to read them in our comment box below.
Alright, now it is time. Let’s see how you can improve your speaking skills.
1. Be Positive
Be positive? I am not kidding by putting being positive on the first place. Before you start working on your skills and not only, you have to tune and prepare yourself positively.If you are negative, pessimistic and skeptic about the fact that you can improve your speaking skills, you will not succeed. I am a teacher of English myself with some 10 years experience and I can you tell you that 9 out 10 students, I have at the beginning of English courses I teach, have problems with their speaking skills.It means you are not alone my friend. If you have problems with speaking, I am telling it is perfectly alright.But how can you be positive? Here are some tips for you:
This is not everything. Because of problems with speaking you feel yourself inferior, shy, angry and/or frustrated. I also felt just like you when I was learning English. I was happy with my grammar and other skills but my speaking was really and really bad. Not a sentence but I even could not connect two words together and kick them out of my mouth. I was so scared and so shy.
But as the days passed by I realized that I should definitely need to act, change and solve my problems with speaking. In this post I will share with you some of things I did when I was at the first year of my university studies and if you have your own ideas, I will be only happy to read them in our comment box below.
Alright, now it is time. Let’s see how you can improve your speaking skills.
1. Be Positive
Be positive? I am not kidding by putting being positive on the first place. Before you start working on your skills and not only, you have to tune and prepare yourself positively.If you are negative, pessimistic and skeptic about the fact that you can improve your speaking skills, you will not succeed. I am a teacher of English myself with some 10 years experience and I can you tell you that 9 out 10 students, I have at the beginning of English courses I teach, have problems with their speaking skills.It means you are not alone my friend. If you have problems with speaking, I am telling it is perfectly alright.But how can you be positive? Here are some tips for you:
- Convince yourself you can improve your speaking
- Tell yourself you will succeed slowly but surely
- Remind yourself you succeeded when learning grammar and so on
- Remind yourself you knew little English or no English some years ago