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Everyone says practice makes perfect.
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Yes, but what if you're practicing the wrong way?
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Ha ha!
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So let me show you five surprising but powerful ways to become a fluent English speaker.
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Hello, it's Keith from the Keith Speaking Academy and the English, and the what?
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And the YouTube channel, English Speaking Success.
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Here to help you become a more confident speaker of English like me.
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So listen, today I'm going to show you five awesome ways to become a fluent speaker of English.
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Now, some of these may surprise you, but I think they will delight you.
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And look out for number five, because it's something that I think most students don't do, but it works like magic.
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So look out for that.
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Also, if you're on the PDF of all of these tips, you can just click on the link in the description.
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You can download that for free.
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I do just ask for your email, and that's just to help me send you more tips and resources that can help you with your English.
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I do spend time on my emails.
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They are quality emails.
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And listen, you can unsubscribe at any time if you want.
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So it's a win-win.
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Okay, with that, let's begin with number one.
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It's a good place to start, right?
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Number one?
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Yes.
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Okay, number one is read more.
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Wait, what?
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Read more?
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To speak more fluently?
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Yes, read more.
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And by reading, I mean read things like news articles,
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magazines, novels, graded readers, even cookbooks.
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Because the thing is, when you're reading, Well, there are two ways of reading.
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Read for fluency or read to build vocabulary.
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I want you to read for fluency more.
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Reading for fluency is where you're reading something, but you're not looking up the words.
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You're maybe guessing the words, but you just keep on reading.
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You're not building vocabulary, just reading for fluency.
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Why is this important?
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Because what happens is when you're reading, it's a bit of an internal dialogue with the book.
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When you read, you're speaking without speaking the words.
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You're saying the words in your head and you're starting to think in English.
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It's the first step towards thinking in English as you read.
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And if you read more, you're allowing yourself the chance to think more in English.
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And if you're thinking in English, then when you're speaking, you're going to be more fluent.
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Think about it.
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If you're thinking in English, you're not translating.
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Translating slows you down.
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Thinking in English helps you become more fluent.
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And reading for fluency is the first step to thinking more in English.
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So read more.
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Got it?
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Great.
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Number two.
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Right.
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Number two, speak more to yourself.
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Why has he got a toothbrush?
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I'll come back to that.
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So the thing is, a lot of students think I need to speak to a teacher
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or a native speaker to give me feedback, to correct me.
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Actually, no. Actually, you don't need to be speaking to other people all the time.
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You can speak more to yourself to get the practice.
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Fluency is about producing language, okay?
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Not just learning it, about producing it.
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I mean, if you're a teacher, think of Swain's output hypothesis, speaking is going to help you with your fluency.
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So in many ways, it's better to speak to yourself because you haven't got the pressure of speaking to somebody else.
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You're not going to be afraid of making mistakes.
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You'll be more relaxed.
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Think of Cration's effective filter if you're a teacher, research-based.
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And that's going to help you with your fluency.
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So you could, for example, just talk to the mirror.
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A classic example, in the mornings when you're brushing your teeth, right?
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You can talk to yourself.
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There's also a very simple three-point framework that you can use.
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And it is basically, I have done this.
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Now I'm doing this.
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and after this, I will do that.
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Okay, super simple.
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I use it all the time when I'm trying to do this in Chinese or in French.
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For example, sound effects.
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Right.
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I've had breakfast.
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Now I'm brushing my teeth.
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After this, I'll go to work.
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Right.
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Super simple.
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Three-step framework.
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Start using that right away.
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And the great thing about all of this is you start to build a habit
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and then you'll get that daily speaking practice.
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Super simple.
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That's it.
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Let's move on to number three.
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Okay, number three, stop learning new vocabulary.
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Oh, all right.
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Okay, I don't mean completely stop learning new vocabulary, but change your focus from collecting new words to practicing what you know,
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using what you've learned already.
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Fluency is not really about knowing new words.
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It's about being able to use the words you've studied already.
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So when you're practicing and speaking, don't be trying to use new vocabulary all the time.
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Using new vocabulary is a high-level game.
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Just practice the words you know.
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It's a different game.
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It's actually easier.
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and just build up your fluency, activating the words you've already been studying.
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I think we have a tendency as human beings to collect things.
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We buy an online course and before we begin, we buy another one.
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We go to the shop and we buy a book.
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Good book, by the way.
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Put it down.
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Think, oh, that's interesting.
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Yeah, I'll read that next week.
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next week I'm at the shops again.
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Ooh, I'll buy another book.
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Great.
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Put it down.
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Haven't read them yet.
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Why?
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Because we like to collect things.
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It's exciting when you buy something and you collect it.
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But I haven't read them.
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And it's the same.
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You go on the internet and Facebook, Instagram, you're collecting all these 20 idioms, PDF of 100 IELTS words.
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Great.
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How many of them can you use?
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Oh, not many, actually.
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So stop collecting new vocabulary and focus on practicing the ones you already have, right?
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How do you practice them?
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I mean, very, very simple.
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For example, if you watch my live lesson on a topic, you get a PDF, repeat the words, repeat the phrases, change a word,
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change the tense, just practice.
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Use chat GBT and just say, I'm going to have a conversation with you.
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I'm going to use these five words and just reply to me and just start practice using them.
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And then you'll start to activate them.
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Later, you can think about collecting new vocabulary, but try and activate more the ones you have.
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Other things you can do is you can mimic accents on the TV.
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You can shadow podcast, video clips, shorts are very good for shadowing.
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So that repetition, shadowing, mimicking, it's all good, good practice.
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And that way you're focusing more on fluency and you will build your fluency.
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Great, let's move on.
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Number four, practice with strangers.
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Now, I don't mean just walk up to people in the street and start talking to them.
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Although you could do that if you're in an English-speaking country.
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I don't recommend it, though.
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However, it is easier online.
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You can practice with people online.
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There are lots of apps where you can do that.
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Or if you're on a course, like the Gold course, you can speak to other students on the course.
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The thing is you don't have to practice with a teacher or a native speaker.
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You can just practice with other people.
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I know I said earlier, practice with yourself.
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That's good.
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This is a compliment.
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Goes together.
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But practice with strangers, with other people.
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And it's great because it prepares you for the unexpected.
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You have to have a natural conversation where you just respond to the situation.
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And here's the secret, right?
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I think you need to balance prepared talks and impromptu talks.
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So yes, you need a balance.
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You need to practice where you've prepared something and you've thought about it and you've got some ideas and you're talking.
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But you must also practice impromptu, improvised, without preparing, where you just speak out.
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Because that's where you build the flexibility.
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That's more difficult.
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But if you're doing both of those, you will become more confident and flexible as a speaker.
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Speaking to other students is a great way of doing it.
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There's no pressure, but it's unpredictable, which is what you want, because that builds flexibility.
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And with flexibility comes fluency, believe it or not.
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It will help you enormously with your fluency.
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Right.
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Let's move on to the last one.
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The one that most students don't do, but actually works like magic.
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I think some of it is magic.
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Let's have a look at number five.
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OK, number five, use music to learn full chunks.
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Now, chunks, of course, is just two or three words that typically go together.
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Recently, I did a live lesson on leisure activities, and a lot of vocabulary, we just picked out chunks, right?
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Leisure activity, that's a chunk.
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Here are some more hang out, hang out with friends, do yoga.
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What else?
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A low budget activity.
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All of these are simple chunks.
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If you listen to songs, then it can help you learn these chunks.
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And here's the real magic is that if you sing along, you can not only listen to the chunks and learn them,
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but you're also going to improve your word stress, sentence stress and rhythm as you're speaking or singing.
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Now, I know you're saying, well, Keith, I can't sing.
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Well, hello, me neither.
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I can't sing.
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But it doesn't matter because sometimes in the privacy of my little room, I turn on a song and I sing along just like that.
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Whatever the language, French, Chinese, English, and I sing along okay, I'm out of tune, but it doesn't matter.
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It's not about perfect pitch.
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It's about getting the chunk, getting the stress, getting the intonation, getting the rhythm.
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And it's an amazing way of doing it.
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Now, in the old days, you used to have to look for a song that was clear,
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easy lyrics, relevant to your topic.
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So maybe you're looking at the Beatles or Adele.
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and it was quite, you had to do a bit of searching.
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Now we have something magical called AI.
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You can create your own song.
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You can go to suno.com, put in some of these chunks and just create your own song and then sing along in the privacy of your room,
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if you like.
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And what I'll do, I'm going to show you how to do this.
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Now, I don't know if this is going to work exactly as I think.
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But let's try on the fly.
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Let's take these over here, these chunks, right?
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They're taken from the leisure activities topic that I want to practice, hanging out with friends, doing yoga and playing football and so on.
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Follow me.
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I'm going to put these into Suno and let's see what happens.
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Okay.
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So we've come into Suno.
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You need to register an account.
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I already have one.
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And then you come into create.
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Okay, we're going to create a song.
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So yes, we're going to go into the auto tab.
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Actually, simple, custom, go into custom, and where it's got auto, you're going to paste the phrases and just say,
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make a song using these phrases.
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Because you've got a limit of 200 words.
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And it's going to create a song.
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You can choose a style.
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I can say maybe Brit, pop, singer, songwriter.
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Depending on your.. you can have two or three different styles.
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Put a name here.
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Let's call it leisure time.
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I put in already and let's just press create.
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And let's see what it comes up with.
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So in less than a minute it'll come up with a couple of versions, two different versions but with the same lyrics.
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Right so these are the lyrics it came up with.
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Interesting.
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And it came up with two different versions of the song.
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Let me play the first one for you.
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See what you think.
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Hanging out with friends.
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We laugh and play.
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Hanging out with friends.
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Sing along.
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Chasing sunlight till it fades away.
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Doing yoga and playing football too.
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It's a bit of a slow one that, right?
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Let's try the second one.
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That's better.
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That's better.
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Doing yoga and playing football too feels like freedom wrapped in sky
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so blue so you can sing along obviously I can't sing
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but great for you stress intonation rhythm and you know what it's just a bit of fun as well.
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Make it quite enjoyable.
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I think the secret is also in the whole creative process, creating your own materials that you can then use in any way you want.
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You can just listen, you can sing along, but learning full chunks with music, great idea.
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And now it's so easy.
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Go and check it out.
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Go and try some things yourself.
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Maybe in the comments, leave some links and, you know, if you make your own song and let us all listen together.
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I'll play those songs as we go out at the end of the video.
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Stay with me.
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Next.
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So there you've got it.
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Five surprising ways that can help you become more fluent in English.
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I have a bonus tip for you and it's called the fake accent challenge.
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And this is something I try and do sometimes is when you're repeating English or whichever language, try and imitate the accent.
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So try and pretend to be American or Australian or British or Scottish, whatever it may be.
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When you listen, just try and see where the sound comes from.
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Is it coming from the mouth?
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Is it coming from the throat? and pick up that because when you try and listen to an accent,
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pause and repeat.
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It's great for kind of muscle practice and throat practice, sound practice, if that exists.
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But most of all, it's just a bit of fun
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and it can really be a nice way of picking up natural intonation and rhythm as well.
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So have a go.
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The fake accent challenge.
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So I'm curious, which of these tips always surprised you the most?
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Let me know down in the comments.
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And also, if you go away and try and make a song, leave a link in the comments below.
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Let us share the song and listen to it as well.
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Remember, for the PDF, you can download this in the description below
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and start practicing or trying out some of these ways to help you become not only a more confident speaker,
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but a more fluent speaker of English.
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If you want to practice speaking more, come and join us on the IELTS Speaking Gold course.
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We have daily speaking practice rooms where you can practice speaking with other students.
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For everybody else, watch the next video because coming up is a great video all about how to think in English, right?
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How to really think in English watch that video.
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It's coming up soon.
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In the meantime, let's play out with that song again about the leisure activities.
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And listen, thank you so much for watching.
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As always, it's great to spend this time with you.
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And I'll see you in the next video.
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Here we go.
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Ooh.
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Remember to subscribe.
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Turn on notifications.
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I'm on the offbeat.
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Sing along.
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The links to the songs are down below.
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Go and check them out.
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I need to start reading.
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Stop collecting.
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Start activating.
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Thanks so much for watching.
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Take care everybody.
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See you next time.
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Bye bye.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “5 Surprising Ways to Speak English Fluently”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: practice, English, speaking, word, song. Questo video contiene 297 frasi e 2611 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 20:00. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 131 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| fluency sostantivo | /ˈfluːənsi/ | scioltezza |
| chunk sostantivo | /t͡ʃʌŋk/ | pezzo, tocco |
| vocabulary sostantivo | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabolario |
| fluent aggettivo | /ˈfluənt/ | fluido |
| leisure sostantivo | /ˈlɛʒə(ɹ)/ | svago |
| accent sostantivo | /ækˈsɛnt/ | accento |
| distress sostantivo | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | angoscia, pena |
| rhythm sostantivo | /ˈɹɪð.əm/ | ritmo |
| yoga sostantivo | /ˈjoʊ.ɡə/ | yoga |
| intonation sostantivo | /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/ | intonazione |
| flexibility sostantivo | /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/ | flessibilità |
| phrase sostantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | espressione, polirematica |
| impromptu aggettivo | /ɪmˈpɹɑmp.t(j)u/ | improvvisato, improvvisata |
| translate verbo | /tɹænzˈleɪt/ | tradurre |
| automobile sostantivo | /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/ | automobile, auto |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| come up with verbo | ideare, escogitare |
| come up verbo | venire fuori, emergere |
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare |
| build up verbo | accumulare |
| go away verbo | partire, andarsene |
| speak out verbo | esternare |
| try out verbo | saggiare, collaudare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Yes, but what if you're practicing the wrong way?
- You're not building vocabulary, just reading for fluency.
- When you read, you're speaking without speaking the words.
- How many of them can you use?
- How do you practice them?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have done · I've had · you've learned |
| Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ing | stop learning · stop collecting · start talking |
| Possibilità con “might / may” might/may + verbo — qualcosa di possibile ma non certo | may surprise · may be |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodo | you're practicing · you're reading · you're speaking |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 87 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, I'm, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, toothbrush /ˈtuːθ.bɹʌʃ/, hypothesis /haɪˈpɒθɪsɪs/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: leisure /ˈlɛʒə(ɹ)/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, brush /bɹʌʃ/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, toothbrush /ˈtuːθ.bɹʌʃ/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hypothesis /haɪˈpɒθɪsɪs/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: chunk /t͡ʃʌŋk/, fluent /ˈfluənt/, accent /ækˈsɛnt/, activate /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/, distress /dɪˈstɹɛs/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, accent /ækˈsɛnt/, activate /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come fluency, chunk, vocabulary.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.