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How to improve your English speaking skills (by yourself)

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[1] 00:00I think you already know that if you want to improve your English speaking skills, you

[2] 00:05have to practice, right?

[3] 00:07You have to speak.

[4] 00:09Studying grammar will never improve your speaking.

[5] 00:12Listening to English alone will never improve your speaking.

[6] 00:15You have to actually speak.

[7] 00:18But what if you don't have someone to talk to in English?

[8] 00:21How can you practice then?

[9] 00:23Well, there's a technique that allows you to learn to speak English by yourself.

[10] 00:29No speaking partner is required.

[11] 00:32This technique can help improve many aspects of your spoken English: your sentence structure,

[12] 00:38your grammar, your vocabulary, and most importantly, your ability to express your thoughts and

[13] 00:45ideas effectively.

[14] 00:47So what is this technique?

[15] 00:48Well, here's what it is...

[16] 00:51Learning to speak English through imitation.

[17] 00:55When I say imitation, I'm not talking about repeating after native speakers using the

[18] 01:01exact same words to improve your pronunciation.

[19] 01:05I'm talking about something a little more advanced than that.

[20] 01:09Here's how it works: you listen to a conversation, a story, or some kind of speech, and then

[21] 01:15try to deliver that speech in your own words.

[22] 01:19Let's see this technique in action:

[23] 01:21When I was a child

[24] 01:23When he was a child

[25] 01:25my parents liked to pretend, like many other parents

[26] 01:28his parents liked to pretend, like many other parents

[27] 01:32that Santa Claus would bring us presents at Christmas.

[28] 01:35His parents liked to pretend that Santa Claus would bring them presents at Christmas.

[29] 01:40So when my siblings and I would wake up on Christmas morning

[30] 01:43So when he and his siblings would wake up on Christmas morning

[31] 01:46there'd be a bunch of presents, from supposedly Santa Claus, sitting in front of the fireplace.

[32] 01:51there'd be a bunch of presents, from supposedly Santa Claus, sitting in front of the fireplace.

[33] 01:57So that's how it works.

[34] 01:58But that's just one way to do it.

[35] 02:01There're other ways too.

[36] 02:03For example, instead of imitating small portions of speech like phrases and short sentences,

[37] 02:10you can imitate larger portions of speech.

[38] 02:13So in this case, you wait until the speaker completes a thought or an idea, then pause

[39] 02:19and try to express that idea yourself.

[40] 02:22Another approach is to simply listen to the whole speech and then try to deliver that

[41] 02:27entire speech yourself.

[42] 02:30So there are several ways to go about it, but what I recommend is to combine them all

[43] 02:34together, and I call this approach easy-to-hard imitation.

[44] 02:40Easy-to-hard imitation is based on the concept of progressive training.

[45] 02:44The idea is that you start with something easy and then increase the difficulty of the

[46] 02:49activity, forcing yourself to get better.

[47] 02:52A number of studies have found this kind of training to be very effective.

[48] 02:57Here's how you can apply this concept: start by imitating small portions of speech first

[49] 03:03like phrases and short sentences, then move on to imitating larger portions of speech

[50] 03:09like long sentences or even groups of sentences, and finally, try to deliver the entire speech

[51] 03:16on your own.

[52] 03:18This technique offers many benefits.

[53] 03:21You get to listen and imitate correct English, which helps you learn to form sentences properly.

[54] 03:27You get to learn idioms, expressions, and other speaking patterns that are used in day-to-day

[55] 03:33conversations.

[56] 03:35you get to learn grammar.

[57] 03:37When you imitate other people, you're learning grammar through a process called implicit

[58] 03:42learning.

[59] 03:43This is the process where the learning happens without your awareness.

[60] 03:47This is how babies and children learn the grammar rules of their first language.

[61] 03:52When you imitate, you don't think about grammar.

[62] 03:56You're not trying to understand why the present perfect tense is used in this situation or

[63] 04:01in that situation.

[64] 04:03Instead, you're focused on communication - on understanding and expressing ideas.

[65] 04:10You're still learning grammar but you're not aware that it's happening.

[66] 04:15This is one of the proper ways to learn grammar.

[67] 04:19OK, that concludes this video.

[68] 04:22To help you get started, I've put together a step-by-step tutorial on this technique.

[69] 04:27If you're interested, click here to go to that tutorial.