Speaking English | How to Speak Fluent English Without Hesitation
Doing English with Julian Northbrook
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[1] 00:00- Hello, I'm Julian Northbrook from DoingEnglish.com.
[3] 00:08How to speak fluent English without hesitation?
[4] 00:13It's a good question,
[5] 00:14and it's one that many of you are asking.
[6] 00:16I've got two things to say on this.
[7] 00:19The first is a little bit simpler.
[8] 00:22It might sound a little bit patronising,
[9] 00:25but it's very important.
[10] 00:26The second is a little bit more complicated.
[11] 00:31It's a little bit deeper, but it's also very important.
[12] 00:35But first things first.
[13] 00:36When people say to me,
[14] 00:37I'm struggling to speak english well,
[15] 00:40I'm not fluent in English.
[16] 00:42I hesitate when I speak.
[17] 00:44I can't respond to people quickly, automatically in English.
[18] 00:49My first question for them is always
[19] 00:52How much time and energy are you putting in to learning the language?
[20] 01:00Learning the English that you need,
[21] 01:03and then practising it to get good at it.
[22] 01:05It's such an obvious thing,
[23] 01:08but you'd be amazed at how many people actually really aren't doing much of anything.
[24] 01:14You see, what happens is people have a conversation in English
[25] 01:19with an overseas client, somebody from their work, whatever...
[26] 01:23And they will completely screw that up.
[27] 01:28They will misunderstand something, say something stupid,
[28] 01:31the whole thing will go horribly wrong,
[29] 01:33and they end up horribly embarrassed about the whole thing.
[30] 01:36They go home, and they search on their computer,
[31] 01:39how to improve my English,
[32] 01:41how to speak fluent English without hesitation,
[33] 01:44or whatever it is that they type in.
[34] 01:47And they are super motivated to improve their English,
[35] 01:51for about a day, two days.
[36] 01:55And then, the embarrassment fades,
[37] 01:58they feel a bit better about the whole thing.
[38] 02:01Time, as they say, is a great healer.
[39] 02:05Then suddenly other things come up,
[40] 02:07work gets busy, there are good things to watch on TV,
[41] 02:12beer to be drunk in the pub.
[42] 02:14English gets pushed to one side,
[43] 02:17and never gets done.
[44] 02:19Until, of course, the next time they have a conversation
[45] 02:23with an overseas client, or somebody from their work,
[46] 02:25or whoever it is that they speak English with.
[47] 02:28And once again, the whole thing goes horribly wrong
[48] 02:31and they end up horribly embarrassed all over again,
[49] 02:34and repeat the same situation again,
[50] 02:37and again, and again.
[51] 02:39You don't need me to tell you
[52] 02:41that this is a shitty way to improve your English.
[53] 02:45Mastering a language is simple.
[54] 02:48It's not easy, to be sure, but it's definitely not complicated.
[56] 02:55get a source of good language to learn from,
[57] 03:01learn the language that you need,
[58] 03:03practise it, make it easy to use, automatic, fluent,
[59] 03:09and then just do it.
[60] 03:10It really is that simple.
[61] 03:13But, you need to be doing it every single day.
[62] 03:16You need to be learning new language every single day.
[63] 03:21Practising on a regular basis.
[64] 03:23Getting out there, doing more with your English.
[65] 03:26You can't do nothing in English, and then expect to get better.
[66] 03:30It's not gonna happen.
[67] 03:32Again, kind of obvious, but something that many people overlook.
[68] 03:37Of course, if you're not too sure what language to learn,
[70] 03:42or really how to do any of what I've just said.
[71] 03:45If you're confused about the whole English-improvement process,
[73] 03:51Master English Fast, An Uncommon Guide to Speaking Extraordinary English.
[74] 03:57It'll show you step by step the whole process.
[76] 04:06Now, I said there were two things that are very important, and there are.
[77] 04:13If you are struggling to speak,
[78] 04:16if you're hesitating in conversation
[79] 04:18'cause you don't know the language,
[80] 04:20go back to the first point, what I just talked about.
[81] 04:23But if you are still finding it difficult,
[82] 04:26what you've gotta ask yourself is why?
[83] 04:29Why are you hesitating?
[84] 04:31Is it that you don't know the words?
[85] 04:33Is it that you don't know the phrases,
[86] 04:34the chunks that you need to communicate with?
[87] 04:39Or, is it that you have no idea what to say?
[88] 04:42Many people say, my mind went blank.
[89] 04:45I drew blanks, I didn't know what to say.
[90] 04:49Is it because you don't have anything interesting to say,
[92] 04:55Because this is also an important part of speaking English.
[93] 04:59You need three things to speak English well.
[94] 05:01Of course, you need the language, that much is obvious.
[95] 05:05If you don't have the phrases and the expressions that you need
[96] 05:08to express the things that you want to express,
[97] 05:12you're not gonna be able to say anything that you want to say in English.
[98] 05:16But you also need an understanding of the things that you're talking about.
[99] 05:20Background knowledge, content.
[100] 05:23If you are not speaking well,
[101] 05:26or hesitating because you've got nothing to say,
[102] 05:28well, you need to get out more.
[103] 05:31Do more things in English, or in your native language.
[104] 05:34Because often when people have this problem,
[105] 05:38and I'm sorry to say this,
[106] 05:40but often I'll talk to people and they'll say,
[107] 05:42well I don't speak English very well.
[108] 05:44But actually, no, they don't speak their own native language very well either.
[109] 05:47Because they're boring in both languages,
[110] 05:50and that's the problem.
[111] 05:51Get out there more, have more experiences.
[112] 05:54Do more things, have more stories to tell.
[113] 05:57Of course, you need the language in order to tell those stories,
[114] 06:00to talk about those experiences,
[115] 06:02but you also need the actual experiences.
[116] 06:05You need both of these things to speak well.
[117] 06:08And only when you have both of these things,
[118] 06:13as well as the third thing, culture.
[119] 06:16Culture is an understanding of the way that people think.
[120] 06:19Because by definition, when you are speaking in English,
[121] 06:22you are talking to people with a different culture to you.
[122] 06:26Meaning the way they think,
[123] 06:28whether they communicate is gonna be different to you.
[124] 06:31Only when you have all of these three things in balance
[125] 06:35will you truly be able to speak great English.
[126] 06:40Just something to think about.
[127] 06:41And, like I said, check out my book,
[128] 06:44Master English Fast, An Uncommon Guide to Speaking Extraordinary English.
[129] 06:50Just head over to MasterEnglishFAST.com,
[130] 06:53check it out, and I will see you in the next video.
[131] 06:56And oh, if you're new to this channel, don't forget to subscribe
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