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[1] 00:00There is a simple exercise that you can do to practice speaking English. This exercise
[2] 00:05will help you speak English clearly so that you're easy to understand.
[3] 00:10It's very effective. Before I began doing this exercise, I spoke like this:
[4] 00:33As you can hear, back then I did not speak clearly. I was mumbling all the time. If you
[5] 00:38have the same problem, this exercise can help improve the clarity of your speech.
[6] 00:44Here's how it works: First, you need to find English listening material like an audiobook
[7] 00:50or a podcast. And by the way you can find a link to download this kind of material for
[8] 00:55free at the end of this video.
[9] 00:57Once you have that, just listen to it and try to repeat what you hear to the best of
[10] 01:04your ability. This will help improve your speech in several ways: it helps strengthen
[11] 01:09the muscles involved in speaking, it helps improve your pronunciation, and so on.
[12] 01:15This exercise seems easy to do, but doing it effectively is not easy. The results you
[14] 01:28results. But if you're not very accurate, you'll probably get poor results. So let's
[15] 01:33talk about the single most important thing you can do to get the best results possible
[17] 01:40The single most important thing you can do is to slow down the audio before doing the
[20] 01:54the playback speed like this:
[21] 02:06If it's a video, slow it down as well.
[22] 02:21Why do we have to do this?
[23] 02:22Well, there are two reasons.
[24] 02:25Firstly, it ensures that you will speak slowly. Speaking fast is not good. The faster you
[25] 02:31speak, the more mistakes you'll make. Every time you make a mistake, you're more likely
[26] 02:37to repeat that mistake in the future. We don't want that to happen.
[27] 02:41Secondly, in order to repeat what you hear accurately, you need to hear it clearly. But
[28] 02:47if it's too fast like this:
[29] 02:55If it's too fast like that, you're going to miss some details. You're not going to hear
[31] 03:07clearly, the output you produce will not be accurate.
[32] 03:11Now let's see this technique in action.
[33] 03:53OK. It's simple, right? All you have to do
[35] 04:03If it sounds good, move on. If you hear a mistake or if you're not sure, go back and
[36] 04:09listen to that part then try again until you get it right.
[37] 04:12Also, if the current sentence is long, you should pause mid-sentence and just repeat
[39] 04:24beginning of that sentence.
[40] 04:26The key is to practice slowly. Don't rush. Your goal is accuracy not speed. It's not
[41] 04:32how fast you can do it. It's how slowly you can do it correctly.
[42] 04:37Alright, that's all you need to know to get great results from this simple exercise. If
[43] 04:42you want to get started, click here to go to my website where you can download some
[44] 04:46materials to practice with for free.