Pansage

Hey all, may you have a strong lists of vocabulary, and have strong knowledge in grammar. But you find yourself lost while doing a conversation and express yourself. Well there are few reasons behind your this experience. Remember may you have a sound knowledge about the language and the topic you are discussing but if you can’t express yourself properly then your communication will be meaningless. So overcome your difficulties, and let’s have a look on some tips to improve your Communicative English Skills.

Speak slowly: While speaking in your mother tongue, you can express yourself clearly without stumbling, but when you are speaking in a foreign language you can’t expect the same standards. Specially if you are an early stage learner then capturing a new language and express your feelings on the same language is not that much of easy. Though learners are often told to not worry about their mistakes. But at the same time it is true that you won’t like to create a negative impression in front of your audience by speaking wrongly. So you starts hesitate and by default you speak wrong sentences. To overcome this difficulty you need to slow down while speaking. Remember if you speak slowly and clearly nobody will mind on that. Great speakers always follow the same to impress their audience. If you speak slowly not only it is become audible to your listeners also giving proper punctuation is required in speech to make the meaning clear to your audience. So speak slowly to make other people understand what you are trying to say.

Think before you speak: While doing a conversation you may feel the other people are waiting for your response, so you would like to speak as quickly as possible. But you may wrong, people often prefer a well thought answer instead of rushed one. And in rush speaking you may speak wrong English even you sometimes choose wrong phrases. But if as a new speaker, you must have to give pauses before you express your thoughts in front of others. Another thing you can do is to equip yourself with some fix phrases so that you can use these when you come to a situation where you need to accumulate your thoughts to response. Suppose someone ask a question: Don’t you think there are some advertisement on television which is spoiling our new generation?
If you answer the way like “That’s a good question. Let me tell you, I have several time thought about the same thing. According to me….
Here you will be able to get little time to reflect just by repeating question and adding few sentences with it. If you will do the same you will sound more fluent. And also you will feel little less pressure to saying something before you are ready.
Mug up few phrases which are fixed in a certain order. They can be as idioms. Or verb patterns, for example;
• in the meantime
• Oh, come on!
• Would you mind if…?
• I’m just kidding!
• To be right/wrong about
• It’s been a long time since
• Sorry to bother/trouble you, but…
• For what it’s worth,…
• Tit for tat/an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
• during the day

Make your vocabulary strong: For any language communication you must have in stock, strong vocabulary. For our vernacular language we learn and make our strong vocabulary by listening to our elders, family and friends. And few we can gather from our school books or even by reading a story book in our mother tongue. But this thing came a bit tough with any foreign languages. So you need to give some extra effort to make your vocabulary strong. To do so you can follow few things. Like you can listen any news channel, to watch chat shows, reading small journals, short story books, even search for some tutorial in YouTube. Practice and memorised those words with their meaning. Make sure while going to speak in English your vocabulary must be strong.

Learn Sentences: To make a fluent conversation not only you need strong stock of words. Also you need to learn sentences. If you prepare yourself well in advance with different sentences form that will take the pressure off from you. When you learn a new word try to memorise it with a sentences where you can use that word. Many people learn a word but have no idea how to use them in sentences. So if you practice this system well in hand you could be benefited.

For example, you have learnt a word

Authenticate = prove or show (something) to be true, genuine, or valid…
1. They have to authenticate their message for further procedure.
2. I am looking for an authentication report.
Don’t you think this practice will help you to memorise the word properly? Well another thing you need to keep in mind that while forming sentences worrying too much about grammatical mistakes will not help you make sentences properly. So as beginner you need to overlook these faults and carry on the same.

Listen as much as possible: To improve your speaking power in English you need to make your mind ready to accept the charm of the language. Remember if your mind gets habituated with the language then your mouth will help you to speak the same language. To do so you need to listen as much as possible. Try to listen different programme broadcast over radios or even regularly listen news or interviews to learn new words and even that can help you in different ways. Like someone’s speaking style you like and you may be inspired to speak like that person. Another important think you need to keep in mind to listen to the person whom you are conversing, listen exactly what they are saying. If you follow them, you may be able to learn the right grammar or words which you can use later on. So pay attention what others are saying. Utilise the most important resource at the time of speaking with someone.

Practice interrogatives: Communication always carries two ways, one to give statements or answers another is to interrogate. Suppose you are having a conversation with someone and he is asking you different things and you are replying. Think if you will not ask any question to him then what would his part of conversation? Will he be interested to talk with you? ‘No’ everyone expects counter question to make the conversation smoothly. For example if someone ask ‘How are you?’ You answered ‘I am fine’ and then stop without asking any counter question like ‘what about you?’ will he be interested with talk with you? In this case the communication will be one sided, and the other person will lose interest on that. Sometime it represents a rude communication. So it’s your responsibility to run on and gathers the ideas what to say next. If you wish to continue your conversation you can uses this questions. Like,
What are you think about this?
How about you?
What are your views on that? Etc. Remember these types of questions will keep the conversation going and this will shows your interest on other people’s opinion. So relax give time to yourself and start enjoying your yourself. Funniest thing in the conversation is that if you want to spend time with someone then ask as much as interrogative sentences. But be cautious about the right uses of interrogative sentences, and practice on it.

Practice short extempore: To make your Communicative English strong another way you can follow to practice extempore. It is a process where you do not need any companion to work on. Stand in front of a mirror, simply choose any day to day topics and start speaking on it. Here as doing by yourself you may not feel nervous as you could feel in front of audience. Also speaking alone can help you to rectify your sentences easily. In beginning you could take a piece of paper and write the points on it and then start to elaborate it. Remember this will not only help you to increase your thinking power also this practice will help you to do well. So start practicing short extempore. Another thing you can do to make this extempore more interesting is to act as a celebrity where you will be asked some question by yourself only as pretending you are the host of the show. This imaginary type of conversation will help you make it crispier, and will create interest to you to practice more.

Write as much as possible: Writing is one way of producing language; it may help you get used to and reflect your thoughts on paper. You can chose any article from news paper and start writing a comment it. Which not only help you o express your thoughts also might prove to be useful when speaking. So take a pen and paper and starts writing habits today.

Practice & practice confidently: If your aim is to speak fluently in English then you must have to acquire the art of confident practice. Practice is undoubtedly the best way to learn and improve your speaking power. As speaking is the spontaneous process and you need not be prepare, even you won’t get a chance to prepare yourself. So practice is the key which will help you to make confident conversation. You can find your friends on Skype and have a good conversation with them.

So what are you waiting for? follow these tips and be a confident person and improve your Communicative English.