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[1] 00:00I think you already know that if you want to improve your English speaking skills, you
[2] 00:05have to practice, right?
[4] 00:09Studying grammar will never improve your speaking.
[5] 00:12Listening to English alone will never improve your speaking.
[6] 00:15You have to actually speak.
[7] 00:18But what if you don't have someone to talk to in English?
[8] 00:21How can you practice then?
[9] 00:23Well, there's a technique that allows you to learn to speak English by yourself.
[10] 00:29No speaking partner is required.
[14] 00:47So what is this technique?
[15] 00:48Well, here's what it is...
[16] 00:51Learning to speak English through imitation.
[17] 00:55When I say imitation, I'm not talking about repeating after native speakers using the
[18] 01:01exact same words to improve your pronunciation.
[19] 01:05I'm talking about something a little more advanced than that.
[21] 01:15try to deliver that speech in your own words.
[22] 01:19Let's see this technique in action:
[25] 01:25my parents liked to pretend, like many other parents
[26] 01:28his parents liked to pretend, like many other parents
[27] 01:32that Santa Claus would bring us presents at Christmas.
[28] 01:35His parents liked to pretend that Santa Claus would bring them presents at Christmas.
[29] 01:40So when my siblings and I would wake up on Christmas morning
[30] 01:43So when he and his siblings would wake up on Christmas morning
[33] 01:57So that's how it works.
[34] 01:58But that's just one way to do it.
[35] 02:01There're other ways too.
[37] 02:10you can imitate larger portions of speech.
[38] 02:13So in this case, you wait until the speaker completes a thought or an idea, then pause
[39] 02:19and try to express that idea yourself.
[40] 02:22Another approach is to simply listen to the whole speech and then try to deliver that
[41] 02:27entire speech yourself.
[42] 02:30So there are several ways to go about it, but what I recommend is to combine them all
[43] 02:34together, and I call this approach easy-to-hard imitation.
[44] 02:40Easy-to-hard imitation is based on the concept of progressive training.
[45] 02:44The idea is that you start with something easy and then increase the difficulty of the
[46] 02:49activity, forcing yourself to get better.
[47] 02:52A number of studies have found this kind of training to be very effective.
[48] 02:57Here's how you can apply this concept: start by imitating small portions of speech first
[49] 03:03like phrases and short sentences, then move on to imitating larger portions of speech
[52] 03:18This technique offers many benefits.
[56] 03:35you get to learn grammar.
[57] 03:37When you imitate other people, you're learning grammar through a process called implicit
[59] 03:43This is the process where the learning happens without your awareness.
[60] 03:47This is how babies and children learn the grammar rules of their first language.
[61] 03:52When you imitate, you don't think about grammar.
[62] 03:56You're not trying to understand why the present perfect tense is used in this situation or
[64] 04:03Instead, you're focused on communication - on understanding and expressing ideas.
[65] 04:10You're still learning grammar but you're not aware that it's happening.
[66] 04:15This is one of the proper ways to learn grammar.
[67] 04:19OK, that concludes this video.
[68] 04:22To help you get started, I've put together a step-by-step tutorial on this technique.
[69] 04:27If you're interested, click here to go to that tutorial.