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| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by TeeGentle(m): 5:31pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Read out and aloud |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by oatzeal(m): 5:31pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Start speaking slowly with patience, ensure it's correct before you say it out. You can apply speed later. |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Man2utd(m): 5:31pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
It could be that you are trying to translate from your local dialect 1 Like |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by georgeakins: 5:31pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Hailleys: Get a good dictionary, there you will learn how to use every word correctly. 1 Like |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by TOPCRUISE(m): 5:32pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Develop the art of speaking publicly and record your speeches and conversations |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Pharaoh4rin(m): 5:32pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Go to new newspaper stand everyday and argue. Go to betting shop and argue. Go out and argue about Ukraine, IPOB, Igboho and Boko Haram 2 Likes |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by bahdpersona(m): 5:33pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
I'm currently in your shoe, and what I've discovered so far is, if one really wants to be fluent at English speaking, one needs to keep speaking it aggressively, one will make many mistake but will keep improving 6 Likes |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Jef4u: 5:33pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Hailleys: What is your gain in telling lies? FYI we don't have 300L in Nigerian Polytechnics 2 Likes |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by ken045501: 5:34pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Baba go find money, with money everything will fall in place . 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by OCHKESTINE(m): 5:34pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Reading alone can't help your spoken English. I had that problem before, I joined Toastmasters International; a platform that helps you conquer the fear of public speaking and teach you leadership skills. My spoken English got better because I was always interacting with people who speak proper English and won't laugh at me. As your confidence rise, your spoken English will improve. 8 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Emeskhalifa(m): 5:34pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
qekng40: Exactly what helped me. I used to be in the same shoe as OP 2 Likes |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by bahdpersona(m): 5:34pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
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| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Escobar98(m): 5:37pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
The problem is you probably didn't stay with primary English speakers during your teenage. Monologue with English in private. Watch English movies. Read books. Develop good grammar-when you're confident of your grammar you'd be able to say anything anywhere. 1 Like |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by yemmit90: 5:39pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Hailleys: The only way to be fluent is to speak English frequently ( good or bad). Reading books or watching English movies can only help you to understand grammar. There are many who cannot read or write but speak good and fluent English, let english be 90% of what you will say each day. 1 Like |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Athemisia: 5:39pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Hailleys:Watch a lot of Hollywood or British movies. Learn from YouTube videos. Listen to soccer commentary. 1 Like |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Nobody: 5:39pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
silibaba: What kind of advice is this, ni tori olohun?! Somebody has English speaking deficiencies and you're telling him to watch Nigerian movies on African Magic Epic where most of their movie scripts are so badly written that I can effortlessly spot out a dozen errors in just 40 minutes of sitting down to any of their movies?! Guy, you're not a good somebody. 5 Likes |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by greatiyk4u(m): 5:40pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
If you are a Christian, join all these generational churches where u will start by learning and cramming prayer lines, from there u pick up. 1 Like |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Starz825(m): 5:41pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
qekng40:Op, follow these steps... Watch black American movies for the most part... I started doing this since secondary school anyway... Just give yourself some time with this ... You go improve... 1 Like |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Eriokanmi: 5:41pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Hailleys:Are you from Anambla state or you're a pulaniman? |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by leksgcfr(m): 5:41pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Going by your first post and subsequent responses, you seem not bad in writing. All you need do is constant engagement in communication by not keeping quiet when you need to speak. You will be made jest of by friends and colleagues initially but they will be the one to correct you whenever you make any blunder. You will be surprised the level of improvement you have achieved through that in the long run. |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Nobody: 5:41pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Jef4u: I stand to be corrected, but isn't "300L" equivalent to a third year in an HND program in a polytechnic? 2 Likes |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Hamzashaf99(f): 5:42pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Hailleys:The easiest way out is to keep company with people who speak good English in their normal day-to-day life. They should be made to know that they can correct you if you are wrong anytime, since many people don't like being corrected hence people don't correct them. The second way is to combine reading books and watching movies. It will also help your speed of processing words. This will improve your vocabulary and you'll start seeing some changes. It's time consuming though. A combo of all of them would make your journey smooth. 2 Likes |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by silibaba: 5:42pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Buddha3: Okay then, let him develop the habit of reading newspapers, novels etc. |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Emk5556: 5:43pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
What opportunities are you missing? |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by yunqdady: 5:44pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Hailleys:you don't need to read more books. What you need is ro open your mouth more and speak. Stay with people who you can only speak English with. Try and build confidence while at it. You will be a pro. I used to be like that, I write and type good English, but do not soeak well because people around speak vernacular. I got better when I changed environment. 1 Like |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Nobody: 5:44pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Read widely...
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| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by dreu2fine(m): 5:45pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Hailleys:if late tb Joshua can speak good English you can also |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by PerseDew(f): 5:46pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
Download the British Council Learn English app. Listen to one podcast everyday and practice mindful repetition 5x while looking at the words i.e. try your best to repeat what you hear exactly how you heard it. Repetition is best done after each sentence and after a about 6 - 8 months you can switch up to a paragraph or you repeat after hearing the whole text. Activities like watching movies, listening to the radio and reading novels will help. But those things target mainly your comprehension and writing abiltities. To purposely target your speaking ability, you should speak and not without guide to avoid pronouncing things awkwardly. That is why you have to listen and repeat after the speaker mindfully. Since English is your first or second language you should overcome whatsoever issue you have with speaking in a year or less. |
| Re: My Inability To Speak Fluent English Is Costing Me Huge Opportunities. by Nobody: 5:47pm On Mar 31, 2022 |
silibaba: As viable as reading novels might be to his course, he'll learn quicker if he rather watches Hollywood movies using a media App that gives you the option of subtitles. MX player is on google playstore. It gives you access to download subtitles for just about any foreign movie you seek to watch. By the time his brain adapts to that rapt process of watching the movie, listening to them speak and reading every word they speak via the subtitles, he'll deff adapt to proper speaking. I had a friend who learnt this way in just a matter of 3 months. |
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