Topic: How to improve my spoken english.
raizahammed's photo
Mon 03/09/15 08:43 AM
Dear friends,
I would like to improve my spoken english.
Kindly please tell me what is the best way to improve my spoken english.

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Mon 03/09/15 09:03 AM
Blog? They have a blog section around here somewhere...

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Mon 03/09/15 09:29 AM
it's really quite simple speak english with english speaking peoplebigsmile

Conrad_73's photo
Mon 03/09/15 09:48 AM

Dear friends,
I would like to improve my spoken English.
Kindly please tell me what is the best way to improve my spoken English.

How about joining some Social Groups that use English at their Meetings?

ajloomis1985's photo
Mon 03/09/15 10:06 AM
I know when I was a young person my parents used hooked on phonics and i also went to speech therapy camps but that was as a young child. Interacting with others who speak English will help you tremendously. Good luck.

SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž's photo
Tue 03/10/15 07:01 AM
Edited by SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž on Tue 03/10/15 07:03 AM
The best way is to interact with native speakers. Spending time in a country with native speakers is even better.
If that isn't possible, you may find lots of audio material online that you can use to imitate and practice speech. Check the BBC site, they have lots and lots of study material and as always BBC material it's really good! They usually have audio stuff as well.

Apart from that you might be able to find groups with other students of the language that use Skype or something similar to speak with each other.

Search for "learning English as a Second Language" or "ESL". You'll find all kinds of things, varying from games to groups. There may even be TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) teachers that are looking for students to practice their skills (for free).

You may find tutorials and audio material on YouTube as well.

Try to stick to material that is done by native speakers though. To avoid picking up pigeon English or pronunciations that aren't right. Once pigeon English sticks, or any pigeon language for that matter, it's extremely difficult to change. Basically impossible.

Good luck!

RoamingOrator's photo
Tue 03/10/15 07:18 AM
If you want to sound more "American," just use expletives more. The hard part is learning "where" to put them into the speech pattern.

raizahammed's photo
Fri 03/20/15 09:06 AM
thank you.............:smile:

stan_147's photo
Fri 03/20/15 01:34 PM

If you want to sound more "American," just use expletives more. The hard part is learning "where" to put them into the speech pattern.


That's easier than you think. Just insert a variation of the f-word every other word. And end the phrase with shβ€’β€’ or dammit.

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Fri 03/20/15 01:45 PM
My father was a linguist whom spoke more than 12 languages english being his native. Besides the total immersion Crystal mentioned. He told me one thing that had always helped him was the other languages music. Especially singing it. When singing you have to properly pronounce the lyrics aloud. It is especially helpful if you are an auditory pupil.

SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž's photo
Fri 03/20/15 02:38 PM

My father was a linguist whom spoke more than 12 languages english being his native. Besides the total immersion Crystal mentioned. He told me one thing that had always helped him was the other languages music. Especially singing it. When singing you have to properly pronounce the lyrics aloud. It is especially helpful if you are an auditory pupil.

True! Rammstein and Peter Fox's 'Haus am See' helped me. Took me a while before I did a fluent "OrangebaumblοΏ½tter" though, haha. Then I tried "Alles neu", was slightly more difficult. Still haven't got that one down to a T...
But yes, music and singing along does help.

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Fri 03/20/15 02:58 PM
i reckon these here folks have some good advise for ya. thing is, ifin you were not taught as a youngin', than y'all is gonna have some trouble. texans learn how to say howdy when they are knee high to a grasshopper. if you happen on someone from up north or across the pond, well bless your heart, you are gonna hear some funny words and phrases. down under you're liable to run into a good day mate while they are throwing a shrimp on the barbie. i don't think tailgating from the back of a ute is the same. good luck to ya partner

(not all texans speak this way. some speak spanish)

SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž's photo
Fri 03/20/15 03:06 PM

i reckon these here folks have some good advise for ya. thing is, ifin you were not taught as a youngin', than y'all is gonna have some trouble. texans learn how to say howdy when they are knee high to a grasshopper. if you happen on someone from up north or across the pond, well bless your heart, you are gonna hear some funny words and phrases. down under you're liable to run into a good day mate while they are throwing a shrimp on the barbie. i don't think tailgating from the back of a ute is the same. good luck to ya partner

(not all texans speak this way. some speak spanish)

I did quite well in Oz. Apart from school, I learnt the basics of English there. Spend half a year there on my own, so if I wanted, needed, to socialize, I had to speak English. Learnt a lot from that! I lost my Australian accent over the years, more English now. Sometimes it's all over the place, depending on my mood, me being tired or not. Best way for me to sound utterly British is to talk to an American, hahaha. Dunno why, probably because I'm adamant to NOT get an American accent. So when my son in law was here, I sounded like a real English snob laugh - Love it! -

* American is much easier for our Dutch voice-boxes, BrE is more difficult, tiring at first as you have to use your voice-box differently. But ... if you can do BrE, you can do US too. Doesn't work the other way around. So when I was still teaching English, I made my pupils speak the queen's English *

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Fri 03/20/15 03:17 PM
I have lived in England all my life,but i soon learned while touring the world that my northern Yorkshire accent wasn't easily understood in in other English speaking countries.I do find it easy to adapt now,but some of my countrymen think that speaking the same way,but louder and slower,should make them more easily understood laugh

SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž's photo
Fri 03/20/15 03:21 PM
Oh yeah, first time I went to the UK on my own, I went to Yorkshire, visited a friend. He could easily speak RP, but his mates, bluddy ell!! LOL
Then I met up with a friend from Blackpool. Took me a about an hour or so to tune into that. But Yorkshire accent... think that would take me a wee bit more than an hour, not sure.

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Fri 03/20/15 03:30 PM

Oh yeah, first time I went to the UK on my own, I went to Yorkshire, visited a friend. He could easily speak RP, but his mates, bluddy ell!! LOL
Then I met up with a friend from Blackpool. Took me a about an hour or so to tune into that. But Yorkshire accent... think that would take me a wee bit more than an hour, not sure.
Haha,exactly,dropping our 'h's. I wouldn't recommend a none English speaker to learn a northern accent unless he/she is planning on living here,but it is quite entertaining,and i use mine for my own entertainment on occasion just to see a look of confusion :smile:

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Fri 03/20/15 04:48 PM
Meet a nice English girl online, come to the UK and we'll look after you with our welfare system, hey presto, two birds with one stone, is that the answer you're looking for.