If  you want to become fluent in English, a fluent English speaker, if you  want to understand and speak English in a way that’s natural and flows,  then you need to prioritise listening to and understanding everyday people speaking English. Today I’m going to talk about how we learn to speak a language and what’s happening with your brain when you speak English.

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I  can’t count the number of times I have spoken to an English language student and hear "I can understand, write and read English pretty well.  However, when it comes to speaking the language I get stuck." If you  want to learn to speak a language well, it is much more important to  listen to, and quickly understand what you hear, than to read and write. If you want to speak English well, you need to listen to a lot of spoken English, until your language comprehension is great, and really fast.

Traditional  approaches to teaching new languages, especially classroom based  learning, spend a lot of time on reading and writing and a lot less time  on listening and speaking. The language used is often fake, made up,  and pretty useless in the real world.

Poor language comprehension,  and being slow to comprehend what you are listening to is the No. 1  reason people struggle to speak a new language. You get so focused on  working out what’s being said to you. You have little or no time to work  on what you need to say back (your ideas as words and phrases) and how  you need to say it (grammar and pronunciation).

Listening to lots and lots of English being spoken naturally is the No. 1 way to improve your English language comprehension skills and comprehension speed.

You're  lucky. This way of learning to speak a language is a built in part of  being human. Every single one of us is born with the ability to learn a  language. We all have a language learning toolkit we know works, and we  know we can listen and speak a language before we can read or write a  single word in that language.

Everyone can learn to speak a new  language. We all have the tools we used to learn to speak our first  language. If you want to speak a language, being able to listen and  understand what you hear automatically is what enables speaking.

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