I remember my Spanish teacher who said: the language is used for conversation.
Do you want to talk to other people like native speaker without the fear of making the mistake? You’re at the right place online now.
Interpersonal communication skills are vital nowadays in business environment, in school, in everyday life for us.
In this post, I will give you tips, how to convert your self-belief into conversation in foreign language, which would help you to improve your communication skills and team work in your workplace, to grow your business abroad and even more importantly, to learn language.
Self-belief. Self-confidence. Trust. Personal relationships.
To improve your language skills, you need to be confident. In order to do it, try to talk to your best friend, class mate, roommate, someone you can trust. Do not worry, if you make mistakes speaking. Conversation will help you to improve your grammar.
If you’re friends, mates, you both have many things in common, same interests. Try to watch something online and talk about that in foreign language using simple questions and answers.
Practice makes perfect. Building confidence is a process, and it is vital, if you want to speak in foreign language.
Teachers and parents should always encourage learners to talk, never discourage - it would be harmful and devastating.
You need to be involved in conversation face to face, not on social media. Skype or Zoom talk could be a solution for someone, who has no possibility to talk to other in Spanish, French or German at home, school or workplace.
Try to find someone, who also studies, or is interested in the same thing, like English Premier League and talk to each other about football, latest news on transfer market, matchups, players skills and your personal experiences watching matches online, on TV or on the stadium. It would improve your skills massively.
Conversation is based on your skills. In this paragraph I will tell how to improve those skills.
Listening on regular basis learns you the new language.
If you watch the movie with subtitles, listen to the podcast, or watch news programme, you can hear phrases, complete sentences. It is absolutely crucial for learning process. Don’t memorize single word, try to use the complete sentences in conversation with your teacher or friend. Language is not memorizing words, nor translating. It is the way of thinking.
Live streams like Bloomberg, Sky News, https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/livestreams/livestream1/, RTVE provide great platforms which will help you a lot to stay in touch with other language. Use them regularly at least 20 minutes per day to improve and search news you need. I remember conversation between Bloomberg anchor and editor, Francine Lacqua and ECB President, Christine Lagarde, who said: "learn how to listen. It is the thing, which served me well": The entire show "Leaders with Lacqua" you can find here on YouTube Bloomberg channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIRNAyPhiC8. If you want to be successful, you need to listen to other people. It always works regardless you’re ECB President or student.
Conclusion
Language is conversation. Conversation requires skills, self-confidence and trust. You can develop skills on listening to conversation of others. Trust and self confidence are part of relationships and your personality. Try to socialize with people to gain more confidence needed to learn new language. Let me know in the comment section below, what kind of help you need to improve your language.
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