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  Hi everyone, down It's some points concerning to spoken English, which in my view, It is worth checking it out ;))

1 - Don't be a fearful speaker ;

  If you really want to take the first step, dare to speak to everyone you can, since family members to pen pals ( sure, if they have some English skill). The speaking in English is the first and most important step to a sucessful and fluent conversation. No matter if you have a vast or reduced vocabulary, just start to speak, even all alone in your home.

  Below, a Mark Twain's quotation realated to this topic:

  " Bravery is resistance to fear, domain of fear - and not a lack of fright".

2 - Making mistakes is part of learning process;

  Think that all human beings are capable of making mistakes during all whole life. So, If you're human, It's completely expected that happens. You should make mistakes so that you can learn from them, and not make them deliberately with no use for learning. No matter if you wrote for instance: "Somebody cry" ( correct: "Somebody cries"). Try to recognise your mistakes, cleared through learners' corrections and find how to write that structure correctly next time.

3 - No excuses by your English level for other ones, you're going ahead each day;

  You have to begin to understand fluency is a long-term project, which you have to care daily, if possible. So, don't give excuses in a conversation with a  higher English level person  who you speak or write. Focus on always trying to get better your level, so you'll be able to follow a higher level of English knowledge.

4 - Frustrated: never;

  Frustration is a component of this pack called "language learning", so, you should comprise somehere of your learning process, you'l feel frustrasted by not be able to say what you wanted. You're not a batty person, you're just in a transitional step towards a new world of speaking, reading and listening.

5 - If you do not understand somebody, don't take that personally;

  Like in English, there are many accents It is very likely you don't get in  any situation understand everything anybody says to you. But, you cannot take it personally because you're a learner, and as learner you're in a under position, so the better is learn from what you've not understood , by finding souce of helping, like teachers or English handouts. Study is effort, battle for knowing.

6 - Don't compare yourself with other learners;

  Comparing is not the best method for you assess your performance in  any idiom. Persons are different each other, as well as, your learning is.

7 - If you think you're fluent, It's high time you analyse yourself!

  Learning is a long journey, and even the "fluent English speakers" keep on learning, because languages are dynamic elements which always have continuing changings.  A word which was used in the  19th century , It cannot be used nowadays, just saying!! So, the ones who proposed yourselves to learn English, have to assume their roles of never-ending students. "There's always a higher level to climb in English" summarise well this topic.

  So, that's it for this time. See you, bye!