private teachers group classes speaking clubs online courses conversation Partners language exchange websites and so on there's so many things we have access to these days to improve our speaking skills in English but let's assume that for whatever reason you can't do any of that well because it's different for each person we all have different circumstances but you really want to be able to speak English or you really want to or need to improve your speaking skills in your only option is to do this on your own so what do you do how do you achieve
this goal I have videos where I mention or talk about this way but let me just Briefly summarize it for you and remind you about how you can improve your speaking skills significantly all by yourself but first I want to get into a couple of the most effective exercises to work on your speaking and then I'll tell you about that one best way to improve your speaking buyer yourself that I swear by my number one go-to exercise that I recommend to everyone is shadowing if you really make yourself do it regularly I promise you will
see amazing results this exercise works wonders if you want to learn more about it you can click the links in the description to watch the videos where I talk about it next I recommend that you practice your speaking using my dialogue videos little self-advertisement based on the feedback that I've got from you guys on those videos I can proudly say that this method has helped a lot of you to improve your speaking in those videos we basically have a conversation where you and I have our lines and I say my line and then you will
see your line on the screen and you need to read it out loud off of the screen as if you were answering me and I also perform the full dialogue for you it's easy and fun another way is to find dialogues online and read them out loud oh and before I forget to mention this you need to speak out loud I hope it's clear because there is no chance of improving your speaking if you don't speak these two exercises that I just suggested are easy but so effective easy because you don't need to come up
with your own sentences you have everything all said and done and ready for use effective because the more you actively use the language the better and easier you learn and memorize things including grammar sentence structure patterns vocabulary everything just falls into places on one condition of course consistency and one more exercise that will help you tremendously not only improve your speaking skills but also learn to think in English is to answer questions or speak on some Topic in English freestyle answer whose questions you might ask well Google's search for IELTS speaking test questions or small
talk questions which by the way will come in very handy now let's get to the one very thing that you probably won't like but you will need to do in order to really improve this way is truly the best and tried and true you will need to record yourself speak nowadays we all have phones with cameras so this shouldn't be a problem I know I know awkward awkward awkward you feel awkward recording yourself and speaking to yourself first of all nobody has to see those videos second you'll get used to it but believe me you
need this you need this anyways but especially because you're working on your own and there's nobody to correct you when you listen to yourself back you can catch your mistakes that otherwise you wouldn't even notice you make whether they are pronunciation or grammar mistakes and you can correct them I'm telling you this from my own experience making YouTube videos you won't believe how many takes I needed to take at the beginning to say something right I could completely butcher a word or the whole sentences or for whatever reason I could drop some words from a
sentence or my intonation was totally off and consequently the message wasn't properly delivered but at the moment speaking I didn't realize that I thought that everything sounded pretty good but when you listen to yourself back you can catch all of that analyze and correct and the more you do this the less you eventually need to do this if you don't know what to talk about or find it difficult to structure your thoughts you can start with dialogues you can come up with them by yourself or find them online or again you can use my dialogue
videos that are called speak English with me I'll link the playlist with all of those videos in the description so you can use those already put together a dialogue so you can record yourself reproducing the full dialogue or you can simply answer me just like the video suggests moreover this way you will have something to compare your speech to another great way to improve your speaking by yourself is to use the app Elsa speak they are sponsoring today's video and they couldn't be more appropriate for the top back of today's video Alison speak helps you
improve your speaking and pronunciation in English exactly by means of recording yourself speaking you can work on individual sounds separate words and full sentences and the most awesome and useful part is that the app gives you feedback on your pronunciation with an explanation of what exactly you need to work on so you don't even have to analyze your speech yourself and there's a lot more cool features I think that signing up for Elsa speak can be a wonderful New Year's gift to yourself or to your friend or a family member especially signing up for their
premium membership you know to kick start the upcoming year by taking a step towards achieving your speaking goals which by the way is something that I'm planning on doing I will purchase the premium lifetime membership for my mom she's really struggling to find a way to practice her English and her speaking and else speak will be perfect for her and you can download it right now for free and get seven days of pro membership for free the link is in the description and in the pinned comment and now I'll show you how it works so
when you're choosing what you want to work on let's say linking sounds first you get to listen to How the words need to be pronounced this is and then you'll practice saying them and you'll get feedback on how you did this is and if you did make some mistakes you can click on the words and you can see them and of course you can practice as much as you need to master that particular word or sound and of course as usual I have an exclusive discount for you guys to get 85 off of Elsa lifetime
membership and 40 off of a one-year membership all you need to do is just click the link Down Below in the description or in the pinned comment when you read dialogues out loud don't forget to record yourself when I worked with people on their pronunciation using shadowing I swear people would always drop words out of sentences they just heard or the ones they were reading or replace them with some other words and they wouldn't even notice that you can also choose a little fragment of any video or a podcast where a native speaker speaks you
can practice that fragment and you can recreate it on video again it's important to record yourself because we make mistakes or drop words not even realizing it and of course when you're just speaking freestyle just expressing your own thoughts you need to record yourself this will help you identify the things you need to work on if you don't know what to talk about you could think of this sometimes there's things we want to say to others but can't and just saying them out loud to yourself helps to get this burden off your shoulders this can
be really therapeutic recording yourself is a very powerful tool that I suggest everyone use even those who work with teachers establish an everyday speaking practice routine and get into this a couple of months of doing this will be worth years of studying English by means of tests plus this is a very good way to keep track of your progress that in turn will help you stay motivated okay that's it for this video you guys thank you for watching our videos and supporting our Channel and we want to wish you a happy New Year and let's
make 2023 a lot better than 2022 so happy holidays you guys and we'll see you in the next video [Music]
