How to Improve Oral English

Nowadays, more and more foreign enterprises are opening branches in China. Many people have strong technical skills, but English cannot enter foreign companies. This is because of the poor English education in China. We all learn English for decades.

This method is summarized by the author's many years of experience in English learning at home and abroad and combined with the teaching experience of language experts. It only improves the oral English and listening. It is suitable for those who have a certain degree of English basics and want to improve their oral English, but those who do not want to spend money to study abroad and attend expensive English training courses. In addition, some of these methods will be special. If you use this method three to six months a day, it may not be suitable for everyone, this method is not suitable for you.

Before introducing the method, I first divide the oral English into three levels. Level0, level1, and level2. No matter the first time I studied ABC or I had four or six levels of college students, most people had 0 levels of oral English. What is the difference between level1 and 0 is that you can blurt out when speaking English, without first translating the Chinese to be expressed into English in your mind. Although the sentence is slow, as long as there is no too long pause, no translation process for Chinese, congratulations, you already belong to level1, and the following text does not need to be viewed again. What is level2? When you speak English, when someone treats you as a person who has grown up abroad, it means that your spoken language is almost the same as that of a person whose mother tongue is English. This is level2.

It is difficult to change from 0 to 1. In addition to the time and method that suits you, you also need to have a language environment. If you have been studying abroad for a year or two, or have a foreign friend who often communicates with each other, you can generally reach level1. The change from 1 to 2 is even harder. For most people, it is never possible. I have been working abroad for almost five years and have seen only one person reach level2. If you think you are level0 and want to upgrade to 1, but suffer from no language environment in China, you can try this method. Because there is no translation process, 1 is more coherent and natural than 0. when speaking English, you can change from focusing on English itself to effective communication. This is a leap in spoken English and the standard of fluent English required by foreign companies.

The method is named easyspeaking because it is easy to learn, can be practiced anytime, anywhere, and can improve the listening ability while improving the spoken language. The methods are summarized as three rules: Forget grammar; thinking in English; spontaneous speaking.

1) Forget grammar forgets the syntax

This is the core of this method, revolutionizing our Chinese-English education. Chinese English language education always puts grammar first, because it is exam-oriented. This violates the original purpose of language birth. Language is a tool for communication, and effective communication is the most important. Think about how we learned to speak when we were young? Are you sure you want to learn the subject predicates first? I can assure you that Chinese at the age of 3 or 4 is better than you have learned English for more than 10 years. Why, because when we were young, we used to imitate the speech of the adults, rather than learning the syntax first. Many language experts also teach us how to forget our mother tongue when learning a language. That's simple. How can I forget it. In fact, it is just like a child who learns to talk, putting communication first, jumping out of the limit of grammar, making the process of speaking English without translation, without interference from the Chinese mother tongue. Some people say that the syntax is wrong. Will foreigners understand it and laugh at me? Think about a foreigner speaking Chinese to you. The main predicates are reversed, so you can certainly understand them and boast that they can speak Chinese well. Foreigners can also understand us. If it takes one or two minutes for you to think about the past word segmentation and add an Attribute Clause or something in your mind, foreigners will not be able to stand it, there are still syntax errors in the speech by the President of the United States.

One day, when you arrive at level1, you will find that Chinese and English are two different systems in your mind, so you can switch freely without interfering with each other. What a cool thing!

In addition, forgetting the syntax will not make your syntax worse. The second rule below will teach you how to check the syntax.

2) thinking in English

This rule allows you to practice English anytime, anywhere, and on any occasion. Simply put, you can imagine some topics, scenario conversations, feelings in your heart or what you want to do. Then you can talk to yourself in English, without making a sound, and then meditate in your mind. For example, when you go to work in the subway, describe your work plan in English. When you walk down the street and see an interesting thing, describe something in English; before going to bed at night, think about what you did today, who you met, and what you said. This means creating a self-closed language environment without a closed language environment and training anytime, anywhere. Sometimes you need to force yourself to repeat what you want and want to express in English.

Pay attention to the first rule. We will reverse the order in which we first want to talk about the syntax and then check the syntax error. What happened should be in the past tense, the plural should be added with S, and the pronoun should use She instead of he. Over time, you will find that you have made fewer and fewer syntax errors. You can make a sound only when you are a person. You only need to "think" in public. Remember.

Oral English and written English have different expressions. I used the expressions in written English frequently, for example, a sentence and various clauses, this is actually wrong. When I have been abroad for many years, it is very easy to hear from outsiders. Few people use clauses. Avoid using hidden words and use as many phrases as possible. All of the above are helpful for quick oral expression.

3) spontaneous speaking

Spontaneous has spontaneous and natural meanings. This rule is translated as: no preparation for speeches or conversations. The last rule is silent training. Now it is a very important step. Dr. taneous speaking is from my foreign English teacher. His name is Mike. He was born in Ireland and has more than 40 years of English teaching experience. At the beginning of our English class every day, we must first train without preparation for an English Speech for 30 minutes. He has a box containing hundreds of topics. He will ask a student to randomly pick out a topic from the box and ask him to stand in front of the podium to give a speech. In about five minutes, he will ask you to stop and point out your syntax error word by word. Then designate another student to ask questions about the speech and answer questions from the students on the stage. The topic is difficult and easy. For example, you can describe where you went last weekend and talk about your best friend. If you change your gender, what will happen? ^_^ !. Because you randomly select a topic, your speech is unprepared (compared with the preparation training of the second rule), which also reflects your oral level. Because standing on the stage, you must be nervous, your brain is running fast, and your attention is highly focused on the speech content, rather than the English expression. This forces you to forget the interference of your mother tongue on the expression. The 5-minute effect on the platform is better than the effect of one-week English exercises. Each person will be called to give two speeches each week. Later, I only took over a month of class for work reasons (my friend did not have an interview internally), but the effect was so obvious, I have almost no complete sentence to be able to communicate freely with foreigners. However, at that time I had not reached level1, so I still needed to translate it first.

The following describes how I got to level1. After one year of work, although there is a language environment, there are not many opportunities for it work, and there has been no breakthrough in spoken language. One day I decided to change my job. After my website posted my resume, I had two phone interviews on average every day, and I had a face-to-face interview every week. At first, I couldn't understand many of my phone calls, and my own expression was also awkward. There was no technical problem, that is, there was a language problem and a lot of opportunities were wasted. However, I was not discouraged, so I kept answering the phone, interviewing, listening, speaking and interviewing skills. After two months, I finally found a satisfactory company. After entering the new company to communicate with colleagues, I found that my oral skills have improved a lot compared with the previous ones. I became fluent in communication and no longer wanted to speak Chinese. I went home to turn on TV, all the news can be understood. I felt like I was suddenly enlightened, And I was happier than finding a new job. Looking back at what happened in the past two months, I have been training spontaneous speaking, that is, there is no preparation for the conversation. I will never know the next question from the interviewer, so I am not prepared. The interview will be tight and I will focus on how to answer questions. In this way, I achieved level1.

Spontaneous speaking features: no preparation, moderate tension, focus on communication content rather than language expression. Because there is no language environment in China, the training of this rule is also the most difficult in the whole method. Not everyone has the opportunity and courage to train spontaneous speaking. I would like to say a few places and methods for such training: where foreigners gather, such as Sanlitun in Beijing, to communicate with foreigners in an appropriate way and pretend to be a reporter, I want to know how he feels when he comes to China. In the English corner, he wants to talk to someone who is a little higher than himself. Some English corners have speeches (such as the Chaoyang cultural center in Beijing, I used to go there every week). I must seize this opportunity. I used to call free customer service from abroad by phone at home. I heard someone practiced this; there is also an English Training Course for foreign teachers. There should be at least two training sessions of spontaneous speaking every week. Generally, they will feel the effect in three months.

After all the three rules are completed, the most important rule is not to mention the willingness or motivation to learn English. Why can't I learn English quickly when I put a person abroad? In addition to the language environment, there is also a willingness to learn. It is often said that it is survival English. Yes, if you work without learning English, you will not be able to find a job without food. If you do not learn English at school, you will not be able to complete the course without understanding the lectures. There are very few oral English in China. Most people do not have such pressure and have no strong willingness to learn spoken English. What should I do? Learn self-motivation and suggestion. Take out a piece of paper and write down at least ten reasons for learning spoken language, such as traveling around the world, making foreign friends ...... Take a look when you want to be lazy. All in all, it's hard to make learning a part of your life. If you don't learn one day, you will feel something bad.

Now, all the rules in the method are not invented by me. They all come from the teaching experience of language experts, and I just use them for my purposes. Hope to help those who want to or are learning spoken English.