Tips for speaking English fluently!

- Where
do you get input from?

There is English input available everywhere. Here are

a few tips and suggestions for you to find input of

English around you and improve your English speech:

Rent or buy an English movie DVD

Rent or buy an English movie DVD. Put the English

subtitles on. Follow the movie.

This has many advantages:

• You will be able to compare the written words to

the correct pronunciations.

• You will get a feel of how real English sentences

are formed when speaking.

• You will be learning English but it will not be

frustrating and boring because you will be

watching a movie.

Please note: When you watch the movie be sure to

keep your dictionary handy. Whenever you come

across a new word, pause the movie and look it up in

the dictionary. If you don’t do this, the whole

experience will be quite pointless.

Read about any subject that interests

you

There are a lot of English magazines available on a lot

of different topics.

No matter what subject interests you, there must be

some magazine that talks about it. There are English

magazines about Business, Brides, Guns and Ammo,

House Keeping, Stock Market, Sports, Computers,

Electronics, Linux, Graphic Designing, Cooking etc.

Find the magazine that interests you and read it cover

to cover. Be sure to look out for new words and new

phrases and look them up in the dictionary as you go.

If you cannot find a magazine of your choice, look for

information you are interested in on the Internet.

There is information available on every topic under the

sun on the Internet.

Read Internet forums of subject matter

that interests you

Got to Internet forums of the subject matter that

interests you. Generally most of the forums are in

English language and are a great source of English

input.

For those of you who are not familiar with Internet

forums, these are places where people interested in a

particular subject can get together and share their

views and opinions about a particular subject. You can

also ask specific questions to other people and they

will help you out if they can. On the Internet, there are

forums available about each and every subject.

Forums are a great source of information. Also in

forums real people talk about real problems. Most of

the information typed in forums is written in an

informal way. Because of this the forums make a good

source for English input. Reading forums exposes you

to a lot of phrases of daily use.

You could find forums on any subject matter that

interests you at: Google Groups

You could also go to "Google" and search for the

forum of the subject matter you are interested in by

typing in something like “C programming forum” or

“Cooking forum” etc.

When reading forums also make sure you find out the

meaning of every new word or phrase you come

across or the whole exercise will be useless.

Read English fiction novels

Read English fiction of your choice. This is our India.

Books are not costly here. You get cheap book in every

nook and corner. If you want to pick up an interesting

cheap English novel, go to the closest "raddi walla"

(You know, the guy you sell your old daily news

papers to...) They will generally also have old novels,

book and magazines. These wont be good quality.

They will all be second hand. But that’s okay, they will

be nice and cheap. Pick up some thing that interests

you. Take it home and read it. Be sure to look up all

the new words you come across in the book.

Listen to the radio and TV

Our "All India Radio" has some good programs that

are designed to teach English to the listener.

Besides this, there are also many different radio

stations available now-a-days in the big cities. Some

of these radio stations are in English. Listen to them to

get a feel of the language.

Besides the radio, you could also listen to the "News

In English". It’s available on a wide variety of

channels. The news is a good place to get input of the

English language because it is spoken in a very clear,

easy to understand way.

Chat with fluent English speakers

Chat with fluent English speakers real or online. Make

friends with interesting English speakers. Become

pen-pals with a fluent English speaker.

While talking to them look at their lip movement for

tips on how to pronounce words correctly.

If you would like to chat with me (a fluent English

speaker), practice English or ask me some thing

English related, feel free to contact me at

khoj.badami@gmail.com I would be more than happy

to help a fellow Indian.

Most effective tip: "Think in English"

One of the most common mistakes that English

learners make is, they think in their mother tongue.

When they want to say something in English, they

think in their mother tongue, translate it to English

and then say it in English. The result is a very flawed

English sentence. Never do this!

If you want to speak in English fluently you will have

to learn to "think" in English. When you are

constructing sentences in your mind before saying

them, think in English and form them in English in

your mind.

Get your self some English learning

software!

To help you with your English, you could get your self

a English learning kit OR English learning software!

We recommend that you buy either "Cafe English" OR

"Learn to Speak -English"

This link will take you to ebay.in where you can

purchase this software and have it delivered to your

home. If you are new to ebay, do not worry, you can

just sign up from here free and buy whatever you are

interested in right now! It's quite easy!

Once you are signed up, search for "Cafe English" OR

"Learn to speak - English". You could then choose one

of the results and buy the kit!

We recommend that you buy the kit from Ebay.in since

it is quite safe & secure and you will get a good deal.

If you are not comfortable with Credit Card payments,

there are always other options like DD, money order

etc. that you can go in for.

BEST OF LUCK!

Jai Hind.