7 Steps to Advance Your

English Fluency
FLUENCY IS POSSIBLE

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 What’s in this Guide?

7 Ways to Advance Your English Fluency tells you what grammar books
and most language schools don’t tell you about fluency.

The reality is, many of the strategies used in language learning will keep you
stuck at an intermediate level. To be come fluent and confident in English,
you must change your strategies.

This guide provides the 7 steps you need to take to change your daily life in
English. This guide is based on the strategies shared in Achieve English
Fluency, an ebook & self-study course available from Speak Confident
English.

Think about your childhood:

Did you learn to ride a bike? How did you start?

First a small bike with three wheels, close to the ground.


Then a taller bike with training wheels (two extra wheels for balance).

Then someone took the training wheels off.

Each step was more challenging. Each step was a little scary at the
beginning. But you needed to change the strategy to reach the next level.
And now you can ride a bike.

The same is true with language. So here are the strategies that will help you
move from an intermediate English user to an advanced, fluent and confident
English user.

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7 Steps to Advance Your
English Fluency

1. Daily
You work, you have your family, your
kids have activities after school, you
travel to and from work ... your life is
busy. You don’t have time for English,
but you do want to improve.

Reality: Success in English comes from

a little effort every day rather than a lot
of effort only sometimes.

Step: Listen to the radio for 10 minutes

a 10. Or read your favorite English blog
for 10 minutes.

2. Interests 3. Use It
Forcing yourself to do something you Have you heard this expression before:
hate with English will not help you be Use it or lose it? Take a moment to
successful. think about what it means.

Reality: Start with what you love, start
with your strengths, start with what will
make you feel successful and you will
begin to love doing those things in
English too.
Step: Do what you love. Focus on your
interests. But do them in English.
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Reality: If you don’t use a language
regularly, it will be much harder for you
to improve or remember what you have
learned.
Step: Speak. Read. Write. Listen. The
only way to improve is to use the
language regularly. Start with FREE
lessons at Speak Confident English.
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4. What and Why
What do you want to do with English?
What do you want to achieve in
English? And why?
Reality: The more clear you are about
what you want with English and why,
the more power you have to achieve
success.
Step: Identify what you want to do in
English (your goal), identify why you
want it (your motivation) and then
identify 1 tiny change you can make
today to begin achieving your goal.
5. Immerse Yourself
Do you think you need to be in an
English-speaking country to really
become fluent?
Reality: You can immerse yourself in
English in your home, in your city, in
your country - right where you are!
Step: Change your daily habits to
English. Read papers in English. Watch
movies in English. Find a language
exchange partner to practice speaking.
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6. Uh Oh - Mistakes!
Do you stay quiet in English
conversations because you are afraid
to make a mistake?
Reality: If you never try, if you never
practice, if you never speak, then you
cannot succeed. That is the truth.
Step: Speak as often as possible - with
colleagues, with tourists, with your
teacher and friends. Speak to yourself
out loud (trust me - this helps!). Speak
to someone you feel comfortable with.
7. Record and Repeat
Too nervous to speak with your
colleagues? Do you wish you could
practice first?
Reality: You can! If you have a
smartphone, computer, laptop or tablet,
you can begin to practice today and
help yourself improve.
Step: Record an audio or video of
yourself speaking. Use common
questions from your job or daily life,
and practicing answering in English.
Then listen, makes changes in your
grammar or vocabulary and record
again.
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