Speak up!

I want to hear your voice, speak up!

English language is wonderful and extremely important and if you speak it you may feel part of the world! So, let’s improve our speaking skill.

To speak a foreign language like English it’s important to be confident and sure of yourself as if you are shy and nervous you can’t say a word and even worse, let people understand you. If you need to leave your shyness and nerves behind you should practice speaking and interacting with people regularly.

You should also practice speaking in your classroom with your classmates by interacting with them. You must take the opportunity to speak aloud and improve your skills.

I recommend you to sing English songs and lyrics as it is a good way of listening to the pronunciation.

You should also speak English with your family or friends but if this doesn’t work, speak to yourself in English as a way of showing yourself the level of speaking that you have. 

If you go on a holiday, try to make friends in order to have English conversations with them and see if you are able to communicate with them and make them understand you too.

You should take the following advice very seriously: do not think that the best way of improving your spoken English is talking with a native speaker; that is not true! English is English and you should talk it with people that are able to speak it, not only with native speakers.

Another way of improving your spoken English is learning English pronunciation or phonetics in order to speak fluently and pronounce the words correctly.

It is important to be very patient as you won’t speak perfect English without practicing and without being constant.  You should think that speaking English fluently requires hours and hours of speaking, how will you improve your speaking skill, if you don’t speak? 

You should also take into account this advice: don’t worry if you make mistakes while you are speaking because the important thing is to try speaking and then correct your own mistakes. If you are aware of your mistakes you will be able to correct them and do not make them again.

Please, don’t waste any opportunity to speak English and make a big effort to improve it.

If you want to improve and practice your spoken English enter this site, I think it is very useful and practical:

www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic-group/speaking-and-listening