Tips to Enhance Fluency

Fluency in spoken English is essential if you want to make a great impression on the listener. I am not talking about good impression but great impression. Seriously a fluent speaker always makes his or her mark. As a matter of fact I have met more fluent girls or ladies then boys or men. I do wonder that why is it that the girls are so good in spoken English as compared to men? I believe the main reason behind that is the pitch of the feminine sound is very sharp, so they sound very clear while speaking as compared to men who have a more of masculine voice.

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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• Increase Fluency by Changing the Thinking Process
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Need for Effective Communication

Effective Communication is matter of perfecting at an art. It's a part of our daily lives, and we all know that an effective communication can solve many of our problems. I am saying so because most of the times we are unable to express ourselves properly.

A problem could be easily solved if approached with right attitude and good communication skills. I will discuss some of the most common and worrying scenarios that we face in our day to day lives. 

Job interview
A student may be good in his or her studies, but at the time of job interview if the answers are not properly conveyed to the examiner, then the knowledge is useless. It's a very common example that almost every student faces.

Moreover if the student is aware that he is not good in spoken Communication, then he starts losing confidence. This results in stumbling and inability to express the correct answer in front of the interviewer.

So we see that after making all the efforts to master his or her subjects, a student can still fail to get a job. What a kill of all the efforts made in mastering the subjects? If some efforts were consistently made to improve the art of communication, then the situation could have been much better.

Managing a Team
Once you are a part of any organization, and are supposed to manage a team, then the role of effective communication becomes even more critical. A good leader should have good communication skills. How a person can manage and lead a team without properly communicating the plans and future actions for them.

This is a very common scenario faced in many organizations, and that is the main reason that many companies stress on spoken English skills while hiring a candidate. Once you are in charge of a team, then it is mandatory that your team should respect you, and respect comes only if you are properly authorizing the team members and playing a good leader and communicating effectively with them about their problems and issues.

An issue of respect
If a person is not able to speak his thoughts and ideas properly, then he starts losing respect among friends. No one would like to be friends with a person who is weak and can't even express himself properly.

Losing friends invoke the feeling of frustration and humiliation in the subconscious. This is very harmful as it can lead to temporary or permanent damage on the self confidence.

If a person is good in communication, he can feel the world moving at his will. It is very easy to communicate and get the things done. The world becomes a much better place to live at. All this comes at a price of mastering the art of spoken communication. 

Personal Relationships
Everything starts at home. And home is the place where a person likes to be admired and respected. The respect could be from all the family members like hubby, wife, children, and parents.

There are times when personal relationships suffer due to some miscommunication or mismatching of thoughts. A good communication skill is essential in handling such scenarios. A wrong word or sentence can blow a relationship, while the choice of correct words combined with the right attitude and good Communication tactics can move the wind according to your way.

If a person is unhappy at home, then the same gets reflected in every part of his life including social and official. So don't let these issues get in your way. Give some time from your every day schedule for self improvement.

I hope this was inspiring enough to gear you up for mastering the art of effective spoken Communication. I will soon be back with yet another article on how to improve spoken English.

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Improve Pronunciation with howzsay

Improving Spoken English requires listening quality English. Today's article is for helping you to get the correct pronunciation of any English word you want.

Many times while reading or talking we wonder about the correct pronunciation of the words. A perfect grip on the pronunciation of  words can be achieved by listening to the correct way in which words are spoken.

I came across a site called howjsay.

This site has a unique feature that allows you to enter any word, and it will pronounce it for you. Moreover in case if you don't know the spelling of that word, then you can click the browse button, and it will display all the words available arranged in Alphabetical order. You may click on any alphabet and the site will show all the words available for that alphabet.

I personally liked this site, as it helped to get a clear hold on pronunciation, and you may practice all alone with it.

I hope that the resource provided would be beneficial to my readers to improve their spoken English and pronunciation.

Bullshiting about Communication

Hello and welcome back to Improve spoken English. I was away from blogging for past few months as I need to complete some personal assignments and official work. Today's article is about those sites which claim to improve your spoken English by reading conversations between two or more people.

Recently I have noticed many sites posting conversation at various occasions. They claim that it will help to improve spoken English. The ocassions are elaborated as:-

• Conversation at School
• How to ask for permission
• How to talk at the hospital
• How to ask for help
• Conversation with a friend
• etc....

What a pure bullshit is this. How can person improve his spoken English by reading the conversations. They keep on posting conversation after conversation just to increase the articles count.

This approach is totally misleading as a conversation is basically between two or more persons (except soliloquy), so the response provided by a person depends upon the statements and questions spoken by other persons. How a written conversation be enacted exactly in real life except in a theater?

A better approach would be to go for English magazines and novels whish will help at least to improve your grammar.

The approach must be to motivate a person to work on ways to improve spoken English, like:-

• Play English games
• Listen English Songs
• Working on how a person speaks
• Mouth muscles control and lip movement
• Approach for more and more spoken content
• etc......

I hope that this article would be beneficial to my readers to stick to the right approach for getting the best out of themselves.  Remember there are no shortcuts to success, so do work hard and win your reward.

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