It seems simple, yet most students focus their study on reading.   Reading real English novels and books IS a great way to learn.  It will improve your reading and your writing.

However, if you want to SPEAK faster, you must focus on listening.   Great speech comes from great listening.  The more you listen to real English, the faster you will speak. 

You have faster spoken grammar.  You understand native speakers faster.  Your pronunciation is better.

Listening is the super-key to success.  You want speed.  You want to speak FAST.

We talk about listening in our books and reports.  We talk about listening on our blogs and our podcasts.   We talk about listening in all of our email courses

**How To Understand and Speak Faster

You know listening is most important-- but what should you listen to?

Well, first let's talk about what you should not listen to.  Don't listen to textbook conversations.  They are not real English.   They are formal.  The pronunciation is strange and unnatural. There is no emotion in them.  And the vocabulary comes from English writing, not from English speaking.
So no textbook tapes or CDs.  What should you listen to?

Any natural (real) English from native speakers.   We recommend podcasts, TV shows, movies, natural English lessons, and recorded conversations.    There are many of these on the internet.
Today we want to talk about the good news and the bad news of speaking English FAST.

The bad news:   Educated  native speakers know more than 50,000 English words! 

Wow, that's a lot of vocabulary.  Plus, educated native speakers are masters of spoken English grammar.   That big grammar book you studied in the past--  we know all of it-- and we never have to think about it. 

All those words and rules may make English seem difficult.  In fact, many students think, "English is so difficult, I will never speak it fast".

But here's the good news:  Educated native speakers use only the same 3000 words in normal conversations!

That's not so bad :)    To speak excellent English, you don't need to know 50,000 words and you certainly don't need to study hundreds of grammar rules.


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Tha'ar Al-Anezy
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