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Yes U Can Speak Better

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You Can Use Spotlight English to Help You Improve Your English Speaking

We have created these 8 simple tips that you can use to improve your spoken English. All of these tips use our free resources from our website and our YouTube channel.

1. Practice Often

The most important way to improve your English speaking is to practice English speaking. You need to practice speaking English every day. This can be difficult to do. But you will really benefit if you can practice every day - even for just a few minutes.

2. Listen Carefully

You need to listen to English being spoken clearly. Spotlight English uses easy English and slow English. Listen to our programmes on our Spotlight English YouTube channel. We speak slowly and clearly. This is not just repeated phrases. You will also hear interesting English content in our programmes!

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3. Read and Listen

On our Spotlight English YouTube channel you will find a moving script. Read the words of the script as you listen.

4. Speak out Loud with Us

You can use the moving script to read out loud with us. Other English learners tell us that doing this helps improve their confidence in speaking English. Try it yourself!

5. Speak out Loud by Yourself

When you have gained confidence speaking English with us, you can then try to speak out loud by yourself. Use the moving script but with the sound off.

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6. Record Your Voice

You can also record yourself reading our programmes. Then you can hear how your speaking skills improve over time. Some English learners have sent us videos of themselves doing this. Their English does improve. If this method works for them, it can work for you too. You could even send us a video of yourself speaking English. We would love to see and hear you!

7. Speak Faster

When your skills have improved you can move to our Spotlight Advanced videos. These programmes still use simple English. But they are spoken faster, at a more natural speaking speed. Try speaking along with us - but faster!

Visit our Spotlight Advanced playlist

8. Speak with a friend

Ask a friend to listen to the same Spotlight English programme as you. Then you can both enjoy talking together about the programme. The interesting English content of the programme will give you plenty to talk about together.

How do you practice speaking?

Do you already follow some of these tips? What are your tips for speaking English?

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8 Ways to Improve Your English Speaking - FOR FREE! - Spotlight English

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We have created these 8 simple tips that you can use to improve your spoken English. All of these tips use our free resources from our website and our YouTube channel. 1. Practice Often The most important way to improve your English speaking is to practice English speaking.

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Listening Skills

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Practise and improve your listening skills for your school studies and your English exams. There are activities for different levels, so find your level and make a start.

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Practise, Practise, Practise

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Home > Online > http://www.bbc.co.uk - Learn or Improve Your English with BBC Learning English

For anyone looking to supplement their English training, or to practice and advance English speaking and writing skills, the BBC Learning English portal is an excellent site to bookmark.

The main page of BBC Learning English is organized into different panels that include things like English news videos, the latest quizzes or crossword games, and English bloggers. Additionally, the left menu panel will take you to any section of the website that you may want to visit.

If you click on any of the links on the left, you can visit any resource. One example of a great way to improve your comprehension skills when listening or reading the English language is through the "Words in the News" page. In this section, you can read news in English, or click on the audio link in each report to hear the news in spoken English.

Reading the daily news is a great way to improve English because the topics are subjects that are interesting to read. Another useful area of the site is the "Pronunciation Tips" section under the English Grammar area.

In the "General & Business English" area, you'll discover all sorts of reading and video material, beyond just the news, to practice your comprehension of the English language. These include fun, information and entertaining videos as well.

In the "Pronunciation Tips" section of the "Grammar, Vocabulary and Pronunciation" area, you will have an opportunity to watch video lessons that apply more to classroom style learning of English. In these videos, the "teacher" provides important tips and lessons about correct pronunciation of English words. This area includes useful "sounds exercises" as well.

Another great way to learn English is through quizzes. The Quizzes section of the BBC site offers a wide assortment of fun quizzes that not only test your knowledge of the language, but also correct grammar, spelling and even tests your knowledge about certain topics like first aid, gardening and food - so the quizzes are fun as well as educational.

If you click on "crossword puzzles", you'll discover an area filled with impressive crossword puzzles that hare professionally made and very fun to play. Like regular crosswords, you'll be provided a clue, and you are allowed a few "letter" hints as well. When you know the word, simply type the letters into the squares. Not only does this help you with reading English, it improves topic comprehension and spelling as well.

If correct English grammar is something that you struggle with, then you'll want to visit the "Grammar Challenge" area. These video lessons will teach you important grammar lessons like passive voice, correct verb usage, infinitives and much more. If you are a moderate or advanced English speaker, this is a great area to fine-tune your English skills with even better grammar. At the bottom of the left menu in the "Grammar Challenge" section, you'll discover two more very useful areas of BBC Learning English - BBC China ELT and BBC Arabic ELT.

For Chinese or Arabic BBC readers, these two areas represent excellent resources for learning or improving English speaking skills. The sites are written in the native language, but lead to useful areas that offer valuable resources and tools for learning English. Many of these areas include videos, articles and audio downloads.

The "Specials" section of BBC Learning English features all sorts of useful and interesting content. Some examples include recipes from all around the world, written in English or special information from the BBC College of Journalism with content targeted toward journalists that are trying to improve their English speaking skills.

If you're often "on the go" - don't forget to check out the "downloads" area which features PDF files and audio files that you can download to a mobile device, like an iPod or your mobile phone, so that you can listen to BBC Learning English features while you're traveling.

Overall, the BBC Learning English site is not a lot unlike the BBC Languages site, also offered by the BBC World Service. However, the English learning site provides far more content and resources because there are so many people around that world that are studying the English language.

Learning a new language, or improving your English speaking and writing skills is something that takes time, practice and years to perfect. However, with perseverance and everyday study, you will improve your English so much that your writing and speaking skills may become even better than people who have English as their native language.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk - Learn or Improve Your English with BBC Learning English

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BBC Learning English is a web portal for anyone interested in learning or improving upon their English skills. The portal is a tremendous resource for studying English. It offers English language news video, learning games, references like free podcasts and crosswords, and much more.

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The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through education, learning and research at the highest international level.

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Do you like listening to songs in English? Singing songs is a great way to get better at speaking English and we have lots of great songs for you to enjoy. Listen to songs, print activities and post comments!

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