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In this guide, you'll discover the top seven ways to practice speaking on your own with our lessons, let's begin Number one Shadowing Shadowing is a proven learning technique where all you do is repeat what you hear in order to practice speaking.

So access any audio or video lesson on the site and press the play button to start.

Then, as you listen or watch, just repeat the conversations or even easier, read along out loud with the dialogue section.

The script is right there in front of you.

With our lessons, you can master entire conversations just like that number to read out loud.

I just mentioned it, but reading out loud is another powerful tactic and deserves its own mentions.

With every lesson you get written transcripts and translations.

So as you play the lesson, read the dialogue out loud as you hear it.

Why, by reading out loud, you're also practicing your speaking skills.

You can do this with the lesson notes the lesson transcript or the dialogue tool with the dialogue tool.

You can listen to each line again and again and repeat outloud until you master them all.

Number three.

Speed up your reading to speed up your speaking.

Being able to speak without thinking is a sign of language mastery.

If you're talking to a native and can respond quickly, they'll assume that you're fairly fluent.

How can you do this when you read out loud?

Try increasing your speed a little bit every time.

So start by reading with the dialogue tool.

If you're like most learners, you'll read the first line slowly.

That's because you're still getting used to the words, which is okay.

Re read it on your second try.

You know most of the words, and you'll read a little faster.

Re read it again.

On your third try, you'll be even faster at a native speaker.

Speed and being able to read these phrases out loud and fast will help you speak fast.

Number four Record and compare yourself with native speakers In order to sound like a native speaker, you must imitate native speakers.

So here's how access the voice recorder, which is in the dialogue.

Study tool in every lesson.

Click on the microphone icon, listen to the native speakers audio and then record yourself.

You can then compare the two recordings side by side and practice and try again and again until you perfect your pronunciation.

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Five.

Get feedback from our premium plus teacher.

If you're learning by yourself and don't have access to real teachers, then you can always get feedback from our premium plus teachers with a my teacher tool, you can record yourself speaking and send the audio file to the teacher.

They'll review it and tell you what to improve and how.

That's it.

Number six.

Level up.

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You can also get assignments that cover reading, writing, listening and even speaking from your teacher.

Thes assignments can be tailored to your goals and needs.

You get a new one every week or any time you're ready for a new one.

Number seven.

Get even more lessons in the lesson library.

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My welcome to our first ever evening, a vision of this series because the sound in the original video was destroyed.

Hi, everybody.

Welcome back to ask Alicia the Weekly Siri's, where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe first question this week.

First question this week comes from Patrick.

Hi, Patrick, Patrick says.

I know the basic English words, and I understand if someone speaks in English, for example, I understand your videos perfectly, but I have problems building correct English sentences like when I speak with another person.

Do you have any tips for how to build correct sentences?

I think that this just comes with practice.

Honestly, it's difficult to dio, but I know that there's not always a person that you can ask for help.

I will tell you a secret when I don't have confidence with something.

But I don't know how to answer something.

This is what I do, seriously, just google it.

I put quotation marks around like the phrase that I'm trying to make, and then I searched Google for it.

And if it's their great, then that means I can use it.

Maybe, like thousands of people have used that phrase, I know it's probably a common phrase.

If there are no results from, that probably means I've made a mistake somehow.

So that's maybe one good way to help you as you try to build phrases by yourself.

So trying that out Next West John next question comes from Hong Se Na one saying, Hi, I love your name.

Alicia.

Is Alicia a common name in the U.

S.

I happen to have a friend named Melissa also.

What's your personal favorite name?

Um, a common name in the U.

S.

Alicia, I don't I don't think Alicia is so common in the U.

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And when I was growing up, I didn't have any other friends named Alicia.

Also, the spelling of my name is a little strange.

Usually it's built a l I C I A Maybe you know the artist Alicia Keys.

That's how she spells her name.

So my name was commonly confused as militia.

A lot cipher like Alison and Elissa, You and Aly and so on those air.

Fairly common, I think.

But Alicia, especially my spelling, is not so common, actually.

So, uh, what's my favorite name?

Um, if if your name is Obi Wan Kenobi.

Next question.

Next question comes from long.

Is the H sound not always pronounced when followed by another continent, for example, while hanger or come back home?

Yes, the H sound is often pronounced very softly.

It's quite difficult to pronounce all of these syllables clearly, like in the example Come back home.

It's quite difficult to say the H sound clearly so in those cases, it's quite common to make the H down quite soft.

Come back home.

Next question.

Romeo from Vietnam High again, Romeo Romeo says, Hello, Alicia.

Do native speakers say you aren't gonna blah, blah blah or you're not gonna block off law, which contracted form is used more I think they're used equally.

Like you can choose which you prefer Me.

I think I usually say you're not gonna I probably used you.

Are I contracted?

You are.

You're not gonna You're not gonna You're not gonna do something.

I probably used.

You're not more often than you aren't gonna.

Next question is from Wagner.

Wagner, Wagner, Wagner.

Have you written any operas?

Why do American people pronounce English Class 101 instead of 101 or 101?

Oh, this relates Thio University and college level courses, actually.

So there are four levels Thio universities or colleges in the US first year, second year, third year and fourth year.

So the classes for each of those are numbered.

So first, your classes begin with one second year classes with 2/3 year classes with 3/4 year classes before.

So first year class is like it tends to be like the basic classes begin with a one and, like, the most basic of those classes is usually 101 So, like English, Class 101 That's kind of making, like, a friendly introduction to English.

In other words, so we say 101 We always use that sort of pattern.

When speaking, we don't say 101.

We always use one.

Oh, one.

Or like 124367 I don't know what those classes are, but we always say each individual member.

Nice question.

Interesting.

Next question lawn is from Danny.

Would you tell us about Here you are.

Here you go.

There you are.

There you go and hear their We you if they go.

Oh, gosh.

Okay, I'll talk about the one that you introduced.

What do they mean?

And how do you use them?

Naturally.

So let's talk first about here you are.

And here you go.

So we used these when we present someone with something.

So you give someone something.

Here you are.

Here you go.

Like you are at a restaurant.

Maybe your order arrives.

Here you are.

Here you go.

Something like in a service situation.

You might hear this kind of from like a friendly staff.

Fish like staff related person.

Here you go.

Or maybe from a teacher to a school child.

Maybe.

Here you go.

We use it to, like, present something to present an object that maybe they're expecting to receive.

Let's talk, then about.

There you go.

And there you are.

So we use there you go when someone is able to do a thing.

Been practicing for a while.

So, for example, if the child is learning how to ride a bicycle and they've been struggling with it for some time, but then gradually get better at it and they do it, a parent might say, Oh, there you go.

You got it, You got it.

It's like it's like a support word and encouragement words.

There you go.

The last on your list, though.

There you are, in American English used there you are in a situation where we're looking for someone we've been looking for, someone we're expecting to meet, and it's been difficult to find them.

Maybe you visit a few different spots.

Then at last, you find this person maybe like in a break room or someplace you might not expect them.

But when you do find them and you say, Oh, there you are, We say it with that sort of intonation.

Oh, there you are.

It sounds immediately to the listener like, Oh, this person has been looking next question.

Next question is from L O J L O J Law Logs Allergic.

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What of knocked out like here example knocked me out of my possession or to knock the problem with words.

Session knocked me out of my possession.

I'm not quite sure this could refer, though, too.

In a very rare situation.

We have this word possession, which refers to like this thing called demonic possession, where there's this idea that a bad spirit gets into the body and controls a person's.

We call that possession so we could say like a priest knocked me out of my possession to go back to your original question.

Now, the word knocked out of the appraisal verb to knock out means it means forcefully or forcibly move something because of some impact, and object is removed from its original location.

So, for example, a jogger could be coming at me and they run into me, and they knocked my phone out of my hands.

So in that case, my phone is being because of the A job that you knock something out means from its original location from force in your second example, then knocked and out.

This is an expression we use, which means, like to lose our breath because of an impact.

So if you get punched or kicked maybe in in this area uh, you might feel the air in your lungs come out of your body.

So we call that the winds in this situation, like he knocked the wind out means he caused me to lose the air.

Impact was so strong in my body that the air came out of my my love.

So I like he knocked the wind.

So the wind in this case, the air in my lungs cation was removed from me.

Because of this, you might also hear this expression in boxing to knock out or two to KO.

Someone means to caused them to lose consciousness in this case.

So consciousness is the thing that's that's going away in this case.

So to knock someone out in like a boxing match means they they lose consciousness.

Hey.

Oh, the first example sentences?

Not, actually.

So So it's also possible there's an error in I don't All right, so those are all the questions that I want to answer this week.

Thank you very much for sending your questions to me.

Remember, you can send them to me at English class dot com slash type in Alicia.

Thank you very much for watching this episode of Ask Alicia and I will see you again next week.

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