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hello! hello! hello everybody and welcome to Learn English Live 15
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English conversation skills
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2013 is just whizzing by and your student questions keep coming in
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Today I've got student questions from
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India, Vietnam and Turkey
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Let's take a listen
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Hello Vya! I heard that there was a huge blackout in India a while ago.
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I remember that when we were kids here in Canada,
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if the power went off, we used to go yay!
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let's light some candles
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no school
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nowadays it would be more like
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ah man! my tablet's almost dead!
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oh my God! My cell phone's almost dead.
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how am I gonna recharge this thing?
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All kidding aside Vya
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I sensed a certain urgency in your question
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and I am more than happy to share some of my experience
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my teaching experience
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that I have with advanced speakers of English
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including English teachers
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So Vya, take heart, you're not alone!
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I really recommend that you start recording yourself
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and play it back, and analyse what you are saying when you're talking in English
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Here are a few examples of mistakes that Indians might make when they're speaking
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A lot and many mean the same thing
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so try to eliminate redundancies in your speaking
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Here's another
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don't forget your articles
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the new iPad and a couple of months
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Also, It should be passive
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the iPad can't release itself
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yet!
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So to finish off here Vya
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I understand that India and so many other countries
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take for example, shopping center and call it shopping
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I'm going to the shopping X
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your outfit is so fashion X
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They are dialects of English and man it's addictive
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Put me in a room full of non-native English speakers for a few weeks
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and I might end up saying "there's a lot many kinds of English" X
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"your hairs are so beautiful". X
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OK,my next question is from Tam Vietnam or Tom from Vietnam
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Is there anyway to understand or to ask the conversation with the foreigner, if we cannot hear all the word clearlys? Thank you!
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So to sum up TAM, try to remember
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You have got to: formal; you gotta: informal
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make them: formal; make'em: informal
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talking: formal; talkin': informal
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BBC/CNN: what are you doing?
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familiar: Waddar you/ya doing?
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street talk: Watchya doing?
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Anyways everybody I enjoyed doing this video
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I know we're all swimming in a huge ocean of information
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and sometimes we feel that there's a huge current
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pulling us in the wrong direction
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But hopefully my tips here can help you to swim to safer shores
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Bye for now! Later alligator!
