How To Improve Your Spoken English.怎样提高口语

Oral English plays a more and more important role in today’s English test and our daily life. So I list out some effective ways of improving it.

I. Practicing oral English in front of a mirror is a way to correct your behavior and make yourself elegant.

II. Accurate pronunciation is the most important foundation. Pronounce sounds exactly and repeatedly. Others especially foreigners may praise you when they heard the accurate pronunciation of yours, thus improving your confidence of your English study.　 Confidence is a must of improving your English level.

III. Not being afraid of making mistakes is the guide of your English practice.

We study spoken English so as to make oral communications, so this order of importance of oral English study should be followed: Fluency, Accuracy, and Appropriateness. This is to say, we have to pay more attention to practical communicating ability instead of only laying emphasis on the grammatical correctness.

别怕出错――你练习英语的准绳．
我们学习口语的目的是为了和别人进行交流,所以英语口语中的几个要素的重要次序应为:流利-准确-恰当.也就是说,我们必须注意实际的交流而不能总是强调口语语法的正确性.

IV. Interest is your best English teacher. Try to find some partners practicing oral English together and English corner is a good place as where we may exchange English study experience, widen our sight and improve interest in English.

兴趣－－你最好的英语老师．
寻找搭档一起练习口语.英语角是个不错的地方,在那里我们不但可以练习口语,还可以交流英语学习经验,开拓视野,提高英语学习兴趣.　

V. Boldness is your bridge to perfect English. Anywhere, you can speak English with your classmates and your family and teacher. Don’t be nervous and shy and don’t be afraid of losing your dignity.

大胆多讲――你通往完美英语的桥梁．
你可以在任何地方和你的同学，老师和家人等讲英语，不要紧张，害羞和害怕丢面子．记住:

VI. Insisting on interpreting Chinese-English novels or books is a most effective and easiest way. First we read the Chinese parts and then try to interpret them into English and then compare our interpretation with the original versions so that we can find out the mistakes.
　
VII. Interpreting what you hear ----Changing Roes: Three people make a group, one speaks Chinese, one speaking English acts as a foreigner, one acts as an interpreter. Then change roles. This is a good interpreting training method and is good for studying from one another. In addition, it may improve the responding ability and speed of yours. The advanced stage of this is called simultaneous interpretation.

VIII. Oral composition and 3-minute training method is suitable for intense training. Making an oral composition about a certain topic for one minute the first time and record the composition on tape at same time. Then listen to the record to find out the room for improvement. Then make the same composition for two minutes for the second time and also record it. And at last repeat the above-mentioned for three minutes.

IX. Retelling exercise: Retell some articles or English stories in our own words.　
This is the way of improving oral English from the foundation. You should practice a lot.

X. Reading some tongue twisters loudly and fluently with one or two cakes of candy in your mouth is a way of training your oral cavity muscles and tongues for English pronunciation. This method is to make our muscles international in Crazy English.

XI. Learning to use short, active and vivid phrases. The idiomatic oral English is abundant with these words, while we Chinese tend to use long and big words. This is the obvious difference between Chinese and English.

XII. Learning to think in English. You may talk about some pictures, force yourself to use English-English dictionary, practice listening test intensely and keep yourself closed in language situation.

XIII. Practicing writing more may help you make your English precise and accurate.


These methods are the only reference. I wish they maybe helpful and effective.