How to Speak English Fluently
Learning to speak English fluently is about way more than just grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary. Don’t get us wrong: grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary are all very important pieces to the puzzle of speaking English fluently, but they’re not everything. Imagine your native language. Imagine an instance where someone who was just learning to speak your language didn’t quite get a certain phrase. Remember trying to explain the phrase to him? Remember how difficult it was to put into words exactly what the phrase meant? We all grow up with certain phrases, whichever language is our native tongue, that don’t quite make sense to outsiders. Even if they understand the meaning of each word, the phrase means something different. You just have to have been born with it.
Not anymore, though. For those of you facing this issue while trying to speak English fluently, we have a solution. TalkTrain language courses focus on students who already have a good grasp of the basics of the English language – they can already understand the grammar, they have good pronunciation, and they have a command of the vocabulary – but who want that extra push to really speak English fluently. What sets those who can speak English fluently apart from those who just know the rules of the language is how well they understand idioms and conversational phrases. American conversational English is all about putting together phrases and idioms that probably don’t make sense to outsiders. Even if you understand most of what someone says, if you miss an entire phrase the entire meaning of the conversation might be lost. And for a language that is so dependent on conversational styles of speaking, missing a piece of conversation might be the breaking point for someone who wants to speak English fluently.
TalkTrain teaches students about the American idioms in language that they can understand. The list of idioms and phrases covered by TalkTrain was put together by former ESL students who once had trouble with these very same idioms. Learning from other people’s mistakes is the best way to avoid trouble and learn how to speak English fluently.
Additional Resources:
English Around The WorldESL On Wikipedia
History Of The English Language