Name: How to Speak and Write English Fluently
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T10:16:33.000Z
Duration: 8 min 35 s
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Have you been studying English for a long time but not reached your fluency goals yet?

Are you frustrated by the gap  between your passive knowledge and

Do you catch yourself thinking in your native language and

Many English students all over the world are

facing the same challenges because they haven't found an effective study method

Hello and welcome everyone. This is Minoo at Anglo-Link.

Becoming fluent in a foreign language is not easy. Especially if you have had no

contact with that language before the age of seven.

motivation and hard work on your part, but your time and effort can easily be

wasted if you don't use the right tools and study method.

difficulty and frustration out of your English studies

In today's tutorial, we're going to do two things.

First, we'll look at what fluency actually means because if you have the

wrong idea, you will waste your efforts on things that will not help you reach it.

Then we'll look at the method that I sincerely believe will help you to

Okay, let's start with the definition of fluency.

What does fluency mean to you? Would you say I'm fluent in English when...

a) I can make long sentences with complex structures.

b) I can use a lot of expressions and idioms.

c) My pronunciation is like a native speaker's.

d) I speak quickly and without hesitation.

However, many of us mistakenly believe that to be able to communicate

easily and clearly, we need to be able to do a), b), c), and d) first.

You can express yourself easily and well without using complex

structures and many expressions and without copying a specific native

Don't take my word for it; let's look at some  dictionary definitions of fluency.

The ability to speak a foreign language easily and effectively

The ability to speak or write a foreign  language easily and accurately

A clear and confident way of expressing yourself  without seeming to make an effort

ease, confidence, and clarity not complexity, speed, or accent.

Once you achieve ease, clarity and  confidence with simple language,

you will gradually introduce more complex vocabulary and structures into your speech as you

unrealistic goals that you may have set yourself with more easily achievable goals.

Some of you may have set yourself a goal to learn complex structures and

make long sentences when you speak and write.

structures are only appropriate for formal writing.

shorter and more concise your sentence is, the better.

Learn and practice all the basic structures in writing and orally until you use them naturally.

Or, you may have decided to memorise a lot of idiomatic expressions

constitute a very small percentage of daily exchanges among native speakers.

Making a huge effort to learn and use these correctly will not help you with your fluency.

It may only occasionally help you with your  listening comprehension;  that's all.

To reach your fluency goals  you need to:

Learn everyday vocabulary that we use 90% of the time when we speak and write,

and keep practising those until  you can use them reflexively.

an American, Australian, or British native speaker.

realise that it will take a lot of time and effort to achieve it unless you are

If you're not training to become an actor,

then I truly don't see why you need to be able to copy a specific accent.

Your focus should be on speaking clearly so people can understand you easily.

Work on the areas of your pronunciation that may be affecting the clarity of your message.

realistic easily achievable goals, the next question is:

Which one of these methods will get you to fluency:

a) Get a grammar book and a phrase book to study at home and

supplement this by watching YouTube lessons.

b) Watch movies in English, listen to audio books

and read English books, or live in an English-speaking country for a while.

c) Sign up for conversation classes, study with the private teacher,

Well, I think you have guessed that the answer is d) "All of the above",

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