Saturday, November 20, 2010

Spoken English Fluency

Knowing just how to speak in English is not sufficient. This applies not only to English but to every language in which we speak. You can make your ideas and thoughts more expressive and impressive if you are fluent in the language in which you are speaking.

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.

Main Page

No comments:

Post a Comment