Hi,11, I can see your difficulty. It is harder to practice "oral"
when there is not a native English speaker to talk with. However, it is
not totally impossible. We have been working on getting some material
for visitors here to use for practicing and we hope to have it available
soon. But my first suggestion will be to meet with a friend to practice
together.
Another way to practice is for a group of students to
memorize a drama or a play together, each taking one role. If you
like, you can use the "A Christmas to Remember"
drama script
that we have here. It only takes a small group of 4 people to do
it (six will be better, but two people have very few lines to say).
Write me back if you would like more directions on how to get started
on that.
Hi,John, One of my friend and I wanted to improve our oral English ,so we decided to practice it everyday .But we found it was difficult to keep on it because we could not find topics to discuss.Sometimes we found it was not easy to explain it in English ,so we spoke in Chinese.The more Chinese we said,the less efficient our practice was.Should we keep on practicing?
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Hi, Candy, I am glad to hear that you and a friend are
getting together to practice. If you keep at it, you will both improve.
You should not use Chinese at all because once you start using Chinese,
you are defeating the purpose. Use gestures if you have to, but no
Chinese!
As for finding topics to talk about, to start with you can
talk about what you did the day or the evening before. You can also
play a game.
Click here to see what games can be played.
Hi,鸭子, I think it will be good to set small goals. If your goal is to just say one word: "hello", then it is easier to achieve. Or just to say "good morning", or something simple. Or if you are in class, your goal can be to say: "I don't understand. Could you explain that please?" Another way is to record something you say and let someone listen to it. Would you like to record something and send it to me?
Hi, Milly, I can understand your problem.
It is common to many people. Often times you have been learning how to
read and write but have not had much practice in conversations. Here
are what I see as the main difficulties:
1. The vocabulary of conversational English is slightly different
from the written one. People use a lot of slang.
2. The speed that people speak at is faster than someone learning
English can keep up, and people often don't annunciate: they
slur words together a lot.
3. Someone learning English as a second language usually needs to
translate a sentence in order to understand (English to Chinese),
and when responding, needs to translate a thought into the second
language before saying it (Chinese to English). 4. When speaking,
you want to say something perfectly.
The combination of the above
makes it very hard to carry on a "normal" conversation.
Here is my advice: 1. If you want to improve, you must be willing to spend time in practicing it. 2. You need to first build a foundation, and this foundation is to be able to understand simple children's English without needing to translate. 3. The next step will be to expand your vocabulary to the adult level up to a point that you don't need to translate.
The final goal of the above is that you will think in English.
Do you think it is possible? I can tell you that it is! If you are living in an environment where everybody speaks English, it will take 6 months. If you don't have that environment, it will take longer, but it is still possible.
So my first question for you is: how much time are you willing to spend everyday in improving your English?
i want to improve my oral english levil in the short time period ,can u give me some advice?
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Hi, Sarahmylove, Your oral English has a lot to do with how good your listening skills are. So start with that. If you want to improve it in a short time, I will ask how much time can you put into it everyday?
(注意:目前我祗能在这里回覆,不能以电邮作答,请谅!)
Hi! My name is John Doe. if you
are learning English and have a question, you can try to find
the answer here. You can also ask me, and I usually come and
answer questions once a week. Many answers are read aloud in
an mp3 file. So it is another good opportunity for you to
practice listening!
Note: Due to the increasing number of questions, in order to effectively
answer them, from now on previously answered questions will not be
answered again. Please use the search engine to look them up.
(Note: At this time I can only
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