How To Improve English Speaking Skills By Imitation Technique
I think you already know that if you want to to improve your English speaking skills you have to practice speaking English as well as grammar. It is true that grammar is a key to speaking English fluently and confidently since knowing your grammar will help you avoid errors that make your English sound strange to native speakers.
But there are certain situations in which English grammar as a part of practice is especially incomplete since you will never improve your English by studying grammar alone. You have to actually speak but what if you don't have someone to talk to?, how can you practice then?
In this post I have made a technique that allows you to speak English by yourself, this technique may help to improve many aspect of spoken English such as your vocabulary, grammar, English structures and most importantly the ability to express yourself importantly.
How To Introduce Perfectly In A Job Interview
So what is that technique?
Sorry! without wasting time the following are techniques that you need to apply so as to update your English into a new version of benefits.
Imitation
Usually, ‘imitating' is copying actions or words. So this technique is all about copying something that a native speaker is saying – exactly. It teaches you to listen to the sounds and patterns of English and trains you to make those same sounds yourself. You're training your mouth with your ears. So you're listening to the sounds and you're not training your mouth with your eyes by reading and guessing the pronunciation of words. You are training your mouth with your ears.
By practicing with this technique, you will reduce your accent and pronunciation problems more quickly and become a clear and more confident English speaker.
When I say imitation I am not talking about repeating figures but talking about a little more advanced about that such as:
you listen to a conversation or story or some king of speech and the try to deliver such speech by using your own words. Let me show you how this technique is.
So, when you practice, just repeat after the speaker word for word:
- Speaker: “I go to the beach every day.”
- You: “I go to the beach every day.”
- Speaker: “But my brother hates going to the beach.”
- You: “But my brother hates going to the beach.”
What to consider before you plaster yourself into imitation technique.
1. Improve your listening skills first
Some people try to practice Imitation when their listening skills are still poor, so they have trouble doing it because they don’t understand the person they’re imitating (or they often encounter words or phrases they don’t know.)
This is not good. In order to practice Imitation, your English listening skills must already be quite advanced. (You should be able to understand most native speakers.)
The goal of doing Imitation is to turn your passive vocabulary (words you know but can’t use in speech) into active vocabulary (words you can use in speech). It’s a speaking practice, not a listening practice.
2. Don’t imitate in the third person.
This is imitating in the third person.
- Speaker: “I go to the beach every day.”
- You: “He goes to the beach every day.”
- Speaker: “But my brother hates going to the beach.”
- You: “But his brother hates going to the beach."
Imitation in the third person is challenging more especially for beginners for example in the first two sentence "go" changes to "goes".
HOW TO WRITE A PERFECT APPLICATION LETTER FOR JOB VACANCY
Easy-hard-imitation
Instead of imitating very small portion of speech by phrase or short sentence you imitate a very large portion of speech so in this case you can listen to the native speaker and then try to speech what you heard in your own words.
Try to read and imitate
I love meeting new people and tasting different foods.
(that's my favorite part!)
To date, I think I have visited about
twenty-two different countries
but there are so many more places on my list.
Almost every person that I know
who has a decent income,
does some sort of travel every year,
usually overseas to a different country.
In my opinion,
traveling overseas and to different countries
makes us more accepting of each other's differences
and teaches us
respect for different cultures,
traditions and beliefs.
It also helps me to
tell some pretty interesting stories about my adventures.
I love talking to people about places they've visited
and things that they have seen in the world.
I think it's because I can easily relate to them and
it's easy for me to share my stories
and experiences with them.
Plus, I love giving recommendations about places to visit.
It helps me to plan where my next holiday is going to be
What are the benefit of this techniques?
1. you get to listen and imitate correct English words which helps to form sentences properly.
2. You get to learn items, expressions and speaking skills that is used in day today conversation.
3. You get to learn grammar you imitating other people through process called implicit learning.
Implicit learning is the process where learning happens without your awareness, that is how babies and children learn grammar rules of their first language
READ ALSO;
LITERATURE ANALYSIS |
| SOLVED PAPERS |
| CHEMISTRY NOTES
About EDUMOPA BLOG
