Showing posts with label Fluency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fluency. Show all posts
Saturday, 20 November 2010
In-fact, by having fluency in your spoken english you can not only make your thoughts more impressive to yourself but also to your listeners and to your audience.
Fluency is one of the major factor that people lack, and due to which they hesitate to speak in front of the crowd. Lack of fluency in English while speaking creates fear and hesitation in ones mind, that starts dominating ones thoughts while delivering their speech.
It sometimes also results in stuttering problem that many of the people does face. Actually this stuttering problem creates more complex problems for communicating with fluency.
There are few very basic fluency techniques that needs to be practiced for having good and fluent english. These techniques can also be termed as "RULES FOR FLUENT SPOKEN ENGLISH". These are:-
- Don't Study Grammar
- Instead of learning just new words, try and learn out daily some good and new English phrases.
- Don't just read and listen English but also start practicing what you hear.
- Try to create an environment around you where everyone at least tries to speak in English.
DON'T STUDY GRAMMAR
Grammar is very important for English. Actually grammar is important for every language. Basically it is the building block of every mother tongue. But if we speak about fluency it is always left behind.
To be fluent in English doesn't means that you should be good at grammar also to have fluency. Grammar is the least part of english fluency. To be fluent in english, try to learn english without studying the grammar.
If one emphasizes more on grammar, then it will only slow down the process of speaking fluently and will confuse you. Having fluency in a language means speaking it naturally as one speaks his native language. It doesn't implies the implication of grammar everywhere.
The researches had proved that students learning english have good knowledge of only english grammar but native english speakers know hardly 20%of the english grammar, yet they are much good and better at fluency as compared to the students.
So, start focusing on simple English speaking, build up sentences whatever comes into mind without paying much attention to the grammar.
INSTEAD OF LEARNING JUST NEW WORDS, TRY AND LEARN OUT DAILY SOME GOOD AND NEW ENGLISH PHRASES
We usually focus on trying out new words daily in order to be good at spoken English. Yet this fact is true but again this is also very true that practicing just words is not enough to be fluent in English. It often happens that people who daily by-heart new words are still unable to speak fluent English.
This is due to the fact that while communicating in English, before delivering any sentence they frame out the entire sentence in their native language then afterward they convert it word by word in English. This is a time taking and tedious task, and also not a right method to gain fluency in English. So STOP TRANSLATING YOUR THOUGHTS.
A good solution to this problem is try and learn some phrases daily and know their meanings. Phrases are basically sentences that is group of words. By learning phrases you will learn more words at one time and also with the help of these you will gain fluency much easily. Learning 10 words daily will hardly help you to make 10-20 sentences but learning 10 phrases will help you to make 100's of sentences.
DON'T JUST READ AND LISTEN ENGLISH BUT ALSO START PRACTICING WHAT YOU HEAR
When one starts learning any language, say at school the process is always like reading, listening, speaking and then writing. Whereas the natural process is always like listening, speaking, reading and then writing. When a small baby starts learning its mother tongue its always in the same form.
It is true that reading enhances your spoken english skills but by doing just this thing you cant be fluent. Apart from reading and listening english books, magazines and news you should also practice what you hear.
Reading and listening are the first two steps towards gaining fluency in English, the next step comes about speaking. Always speak loud and clear what ever you hear and practice it. Once your mouth and brain can do this exercise without any effort then you will yourself realize that you are gaining command over spoken English fluency.
TRY TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT AROUND YOU WHERE EVERYONE AT LEAST TRIES TO SPEAK IN ENGLISH
Learning English lessons, words, phrases etc and etc. is not enough. You must be surprised at this statement. You must have an environment around you because environment is one of the biggest factor that have impacts on ones habits.
Suppose there is a small baby who does not know anything but slowly and slowly as he grows up he automatically learns his mother tongue. No one needs to teach him his native language. This is just due to the simple reason that people surrounding him always use to talk in his native language. He has grown up in an environment where every one speaks his language.
There are students who study in English medium school yet they are not fluent in speaking English just because they have friends who spoke in their mother tongue instead of English. You don't need to go anywhere to be fluent in English.
Just create an environment around you of English speaking peoples. Make simple rules with your friends, colleagues or your family members that when ever you will have a talk or discussion you will speak in english.
At last I would like to say that you should be surrounded up with right people. It doesn't means that all the people around you must have good and fluent English but they should have the daring to stop you if you are wrong at some point. If you have made any mistake at your conversation they should always correct you else you will have a wrong perception that you are perfectly correct.
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Thursday, 19 August 2010
Though the basic difference in the pitch of voices of man and woman, both have the capability to attain fluency. It's just a matter of hard work and desire for perfection. If you have the insect of perfection inside you, then no one stop you from becoming a very fluent speaker.
Fluency in spoken English comes at a price of very hard work and consistent practice, but once achieved makes a very strong mark on the listener. Some of the tips that are helpful in enhancing fluency are discussed below:-
Don't think that you will fail
One of the most basic fear in the mind of the speaker while speaking is that he or she will not be able to say or pronounce the words clearly. This leads to stumbling, and use of same words again and again. Avoid this. Make sure that you have a firm belief in yourself that you are a perfect speaker, and then speak. You will realize the free flow of ideas in your mind. This helps in removal of fear from inside and boosts the confidence while speaking.
The ideas must flow freely in your mind
Remember that while speaking your native language, you need not think about what need to be said. This is because the ideas and thoughts comes freely into your mind. Speaking English is no exception. Once the ideas start flowing freely in English in your mind, then you can communicate them with effortless ease. This ease is required to communicate your thought freely to the listener. The free flow of ideas in English comes slowly with consistent practice. That's the main reason that I stress on thinking in English. This helps in changing your thought process from your native language to English.
Work consistently
Attaining fluency is matter of very hard work and consistent work. You cannot just attain a good level in fluency and then stop, but you need to consistently make efforts for perfection. The feeling of perfection comes from the look in the listeners eyes. You can tell easily by looking at the listeners face or eyes that he is impressed with your fluency or not. Don't be demotivated if the listener ignores you or gives an uninterested look, but take it as a feedback and work even more harder.
Identify your weak points
The best man who knows about all your defects is you yourself. Admit to your shortcomings and areas of improvement. Then only you would be able to work on the areas that require improvement. Identify the loopholes in your speech, the words that you try to speak on almost every occasion, your stumbling in words while speaking or even thinking. Make note of your shortcomings and work accordingly to overcome them.
There are many more ways to improve spoken english fluency, most of them I have covered in my earlier posts and would be discussing about the rest in my later posts. the key point is to never loose hope. Remember that you have got only one life, and it is not for regret or humiliation, but achievement and glory. Don't waste it, worrying about your shortcomings but work harder to overcome them.
I am done for the day, Improve spoken English will soon be back with yet another informative article, till then keep working hard.
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