5 STEPS TO SPEAK A NEW LANGUAGE (CHAPTER 7)

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5 Steps to speak a new language (Hung Q. Pham)

CHAPTER 7 (Develop Your Speaking Skills)

 “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” - FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Speaking seems to be the hardest part of learning a new language. To express an idea verbally, the speaker has to coordinate various parts of his body from the brain to the O 78 tongue, the mouth, the lips, the breath and so on. You may not be aware of this complexity with your mother tongue because you have already overcome it when you were a child. If you recall the time you first practiced riding a bicycle, you will see how awkward you were when you tried to coordinate your eyes (to see the road), your hands (to control the handlebars) and your feet (to control the pedals). It took you a certain amount of time practicing it over and over again to make it go smoothly.

Fluent speaking and great pronunciation are two different stories

The same thing happens when we speak a new language. As I mentioned before, you have to do two tasks when you speak:

·         Firstly, your brain has to find suitable words and put them into a proper order to build a correct sentence.

·         Secondly, you have to coordinate your mouth, your lips, your tongue… in order to pronounce the sentence beautifully.

With this technique, you will develop your speaking skills in three steps.

·         Step 1: Develop your fluency

When practicing your speaking, you do not need to worry about your pronunciation. Just speak the way you feel comfortable the most. In short, you will fully focus on selecting the right words and putting them into the right order. Some people might wonder if this speaking style could affect their pronunciation in the future.

·         Step 2: Practice your pronunciation separately

To focus only on pronunciation and set aside the sentence building process, you can practice reading aloud rather than speaking spontaneously. When you read, the 90 sentences are already there; you don’t need to worry about selecting words and putting them into a correct order. This makes it much easier for you to develop your pronunciation skills.

·         Step 3: Put the two things together.

As you must have already guessed, after building sentences comfortably and acquiring a pretty good pronunciation, it is time to put them together. Of course, it is easier said than done. But you need to be determined to practice hard, and you’ll achieve the results quickly.

1. Acquire the most common words and phrases by the Free reading and Sound-mapping listening techniques.

2. Start the first stage of speaking by practicing your free writing. The more you practice, the more quickly you will be able to pick up words and sort them into a proper order.

3. Develop your fluency first by practicing speaking without worrying about pronunciation. If you can write it down, you can speak it out.

4. Develop your pronunciation skills separately by practicing reading aloud.

5. Polish your speaking with pronunciation.

Who to talk to, where and what about?

Self talk—the secret weapon

Most people believe that they need someone in front of them to practice speaking.

Firstly, when you speak to someone, unconsciously, you are under the pressure of time. You would be concerned whether you are making your audience wait too long for you to speak out some words. As a result, you would try to speak faster.

Secondly, when you practice with someone, you do not fully control the content of your conversation.

Make your learning process more interesting

Just like when you practice writing, speaking will become very boring if you don’t have some kind of interaction or sharing with someone else. Therefore, you need to record or videotape your speeches and share them with other people.

To make your language practice more meaningful and less boring, try to make them valuable in terms of content. For example, if you are good at using Photoshop (a software to edit photos), think about posting a video in which you speak in your target language instructing others how to edit a photograph.

Practice with an article written in your mother tongue.

This is a very effective technique in case you have nothing to talk about. Simply select some page of a book or an article written in your mother tongue that has something to do with the reading, listening or writing session that you have done for the day. Then, you practice by telling others what is in the article using your target language. When you practice this technique, please keep in mind that you are not translating the article from your mother tongue to your target language.

Just try to describe it in your target language as closely as you can. The power of this technique is that you don’t need to worry about what to say when practicing. So the learning process is less bothersome and more enjoyable.