Learning English

5 Days of tips and challenges to help you improve your speaking

Welcome to Day 4 - Today's challenges

Being a good listener is an important part of being a good speaker. There are many free sources of natural English you can listen to online. 

Tim's question for you today comes from one of those sources: 5 days to become a better listener

• What is the listening focus of Day 3?

FIND THE ANSWER TO TODAY'S QUESTION HERE

Tim's Tips

As well as shadow speaking, self-talk is another technique for improving speaking by yourself.

This can be simply describing what you are doing in English, or maybe practising telling anecdotes and stories about your life.

Reading aloud from books, magazines and online articles and features is another method.

Why not try dicating to your smart phone or computer? Many devices can transcribe what you say to them. Make sure the language is set to English, and see if what they write is what you say. They aren't perfect but may give you an idea if your pronunciation is clear and understandable.

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Did you miss the start of the course? Don't worry, here's Day 1.

Don't forget to come back for Day 4 to find out the answer to Tim's question.