6 signs your English is terrible (even if you don't think so)

Before you say anything, you remember the required form of the verb for 5 minutes

You need to know the grammar rules, but you shouldn't overestimate their importance in everyday conversations. When speaking in English, you are probably already under stress. You should not additionally scare yourself with the thought that the interlocutor is counting every mistake in his head. Otherwise, you will have long pauses between sentences, and it will be difficult to conduct a dialogue with you.

Allow yourself to be wrong and instead pay attention to something more important - a rich vocabulary. To avoid being in a situation where the only thing you can remember is “London is the capital of Great Britain”, learn new words regularly. Write them down and try to use them in sentences. Do not get carried away with old dictionaries: to train your spoken language, it will be more useful to search for new words in magazines, blogs and TV shows.

Try to think about objects and things in English: if you see an apple, think of an apple, if it's snowing, it is snowfall. So over time, you can speed up your speech: you do not have to mentally translate a sentence every time before pronouncing it.

The phrase "You know, homie, that movie is trash" will put you in a stupor

To be an expert in spoken English, you need to know the slang. Otherwise, you may simply not understand the interlocutor. Of course, every English-speaking country and even in different regions of one state has its own slang words and expressions, for example, Scots can say laddie, meaning not a girl at all, but a young guy.

You don't need to fill your head with thousands of colloquial words, first of all, pay attention to the popular common slang: diss (unflattering to say something), ace (something cool), piece of cake (easy) and so Further.

When you say "You can’t", you, without knowing it, are insulting the person

It is very important to pronounce sounds correctly in English, because many of them are very similar to each other. So, there is a chance to say something completely wrong. It's good if this "not that" is decent.

There are several ways to train the pronunciation of sounds:

• Watch video tutorials. Such, in which very clearly, perhaps even slightly exaggerated, show how the lips and tongue should move during the pronunciation of sounds. Repeat these movements in front of the mirror.
• Read tongue twisters. Just approach the task responsibly and really try to pronounce each sound the way you need to, you don't have to do it very quickly.
• Record yourself on a voice recorder. Pronounce different but similar sounding words: accept - except, ensure - insure, cerial - serial.

You ask a question, but do not understand what is being answered

Of course, the problem here may be in your interlocutor: suddenly he just speaks terrible English. But it's worth thinking about yourself: you probably lack listening practice.

To fix this, watch the original TV shows, listen to the words of your favorite songs, subscribe to English-speaking vloggers on YouTube. Try not to use Russian subtitles: the temptation to read a familiar speech will be too great, you may not remember anything at all from what you heard.

To the message "Text me ASAP" you will answer "ASAP". Or just think of a famous rapper

If you have foreign friends, you simply cannot ignore abbreviations in written colloquial speech. They will definitely use them. Because, first of all, they are so used to it. Second, abbreviations make correspondence faster and help reduce the number of characters - useful, for example, on Twitter.

There are many abbreviations in English, they can be roughly divided into two groups: generally accepted and informal. The former you can use anywhere, even in business correspondence, for example TBA - "to be announced" (to be announced later), ASAP - "as soon as possible" (as soon as possible). But informal ones are suitable for correspondence with friends and communication on the Internet. For example, 4ever - forever (forever), l8r - later (later).

Some abbreviations are also used in oral speech, for example FIY - "for your information" (for your information). How they are pronounced and what they mean, you just need to remember.

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Last time you spoke English... never

If in everyday life you do not come across spoken English, when you start speaking, you will most likely take a long time to find the right words or even fall into a stupor.

To practice conversational English, you don't have to immediately start a dialogue with foreigners. You can start by talking to yourself: come up with a topic and talk out loud. Another option is to repeat phrases and dialogues from some modern TV series. Ideally, this should be done in front of a mirror: this way you can follow the correct position of your lips and tongue and feel more confident - your reflection will be a kind of interlocutor.