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  • Hey, everyone, welcome to the Monthly Review Monthly Show on Language Learning where you discover new learning strategies, motivational tips, steady tools and resource is, by the way, all the free lessons and bonuses you're about to see can be downloaded on our website.

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  • Okay, today's topic.

  • ISS how to speak more of your target language talking points for language learners, and today you're going to learn one.

  • What talking points are 25 talking points you can use to start conversations and maximize your speaking time.

  • And three.

  • How to get our conversation Cheat sheets so you can speak even more of your target language and you'll find out how to get them for free.

  • If you've always wanted to speak Maurin your target language than this episode is for you.

  • I'll get into this in just a bit, but first here are this months.

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  • Learn 15 ways to learn and master languages during your commute in this one minute lesson.

  • Fourth, want to learn how to order food in your target language than this one minute lesson is for you.

  • You'll learn the 20 most common phrases and questions you'll need in a restaurant to get your free resource is click the link in the description below.

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  • Okay, let's jump into today's topic.

  • If you're like most language learners, then you're number one Goal is to speak more right.

  • You want to have fluid conversations with natives.

  • It's a great goal, tohave.

  • But for most language learners, speaking also happens to be their weakest skill.

  • You may not know enough of the language to express yourself.

  • You tend to run out of words and things to say, and you're just not sure how to start a conversation If you haven't least one of these issues, then talking points are just what you need.

  • Part one.

  • What's a talking point?

  • A talking point is a topic that invites discussion or argument.

  • In other words, just something to talk about.

  • It could be about yourself, your work, your hobbies, the weather, food or what you did this past weekend.

  • All of these are talking points.

  • Here's an example to help.

  • You better understand talking points.

  • Think of the conversation you have with a friend.

  • You can ask, What did you do this weekend?

  • They'll reply and then ask you back.

  • The talking point here is the weekend.

  • Let's say your friend says they went to a restaurant that's a natural talking point to explore.

  • Next, you can ask, What kind of restaurants do you like now you covered to talking points.

  • The more talking points you have, the more you can speak, and the same goes for your target language.

  • The only challenges you need to know the relevant words and phrases for that topic.

  • For example, if you want to talk about the weekend, you need to know phrases and questions like What did you do this weekend?

  • I did this.

  • What about you?

  • In the next part, you'll discover five easy talking points that you can master with our learning program.

  • Let's get into part two part 25 Talking points you can use.

  • The 1st 1 is learn how to introduce yourself in your target language.

  • Why is this a powerful talking point?

  • Introducing yourself is something you'll do again and again every time you meet someone new, so learning the relevant phrases is a must.

  • If you've done the first few lessons on our site, you can already do this.

  • If not, then check out our absolute beginner lessons and the top 25 questions.

  • You must know lessons.

  • You'll learn basic conversations with our quick 3 to 15 minute lessons.

  • We'll give you the exact lines to use along with the translations, so that you can use them in conversations.

  • You can also use this talking point to continue a conversation.

  • For example, if you've started with a different point like the weather, then it makes sense to say, by the way, my name is talking.

  • Point number two.

  • The weather.

  • This is a universal talking point.

  • People like to talk or complain about the weather all over the world.

  • In fact, just saying it's really nice today is enough to start a conversation with a native speaker.

  • If you want to talk about the weather, check out our can do lesson.

  • Pathway called can Talk about whether you'll find this pathway in the absolute beginner level of our lesson.

  • Library talking point number three Compliments.

  • Compliments are another great way to start a conversation or continue one.

  • If you're running out of things to say, you can quickly transition and say something about their city, their country or just Hey, I like your shirt.

  • If you want to learn how to compliment, check out our compliments phrase list.

  • This list is free to access for all users.

  • If you don't know where to find it on our site, leave a comment in the comments below, and we'll follow up.

  • Point number four asked for help.

  • For example, you can ask for directions or about the price and let the conversation go from there.

  • These are very basic phrases that you learn in our survival phrases lessons.

  • If you want to strike up a quick dialogue, this is a great talking point to use point number five Learn phrases for transactions like getting a room at a hotel, shopping, ordering food or telling the taxi driver where to go.

  • You may think that this isn't much of a talking point, but for the learners that are shy about talking to random native speakers for no reason, this is an easy way to start a dialogue.

  • You have a good excuse.

  • You want to buy something so the staff will be happy to respond again.

  • You learn all of these with our survival phrases lessons.

  • Okay, let's move on to our last part.

  • Part three.

  • How to get our conversation, she cheese.

  • Lastly, I'm going to tell you how to get our collection of conversation chief shapes for free.

  • With thes cheat sheets, you'll be able to talk about all kinds of topics.

  • Travel, hobbies, dating, family weather and much more, which means you can master a lot of talking points and speak more of your target language.

  • If you like to get these cheat sheets, please leave us a comment in the comment section.

  • All right, everyone, in the last monthly review, we asked you to submit a video or audio file of yourself speaking the language, telling us your plans for the summer.

  • So thank you to all of you that sentence of missions.

  • You've all received a premium plus subscription as a reward.

  • Now, let's take a look at some of the entries.

  • Okay?

  • So now I'm going to check out the audio and video messages that we've received for this month.

  • Let's get started.

  • Hi, Alicia.

  • I I'm Almita.

  • I'm from Bangladesh.

  • Bangladesh have been learning English then.

  • Daniel, I wanted to send you an audio.

  • I'm learning English and vanish.

  • Cool.

  • Learning language is my hobby.

  • I read many books in my target language.

  • I need your help.

  • I hope you will help me.

  • If you help me, I would be grateful to you.

  • Thank you very much.

  • Cool.

  • So learning languages is your hobby.

  • And that's tough to toe.

  • Learn two languages at the same time.

  • But I think reading books is a good way to practice and to enjoy your studies.

  • I hope you can also find some ways to practice your speaking as well.

  • Maybe you can try reading your books out loud to get some speaking practice too.

  • So thanks so much for sending this audio file.

  • Really appreciate it.

  • And good luck as you continue studying.

  • Thanks so much.

  • Okay, let's go to the next one.

  • Hi.

  • My name is what?

  • I'm 21 years old and I'm from Mexico.

  • I want to take to English Class 101 dot com toe helping me a lot about English culture on how to improve my new language.

  • I think that my English skills like my speaking, my listening, my writing I mean, I'm a reading are getting better and I start to learn with a racial on this class one on one that car The reason that they start to learn and practice my English is because I really want to be a bi lingual speaker on it would be useful to find a good job opportunity one more time.

  • Thank you.

  • In his class One the one that come toe helping me to be better every day.

  • Goodbye.

  • That was awesome.

  • Thank you so much for sharing that feedback and for sharing such a positive comment.

  • So that's a really cool goal to be a bilingual speaker and to be able to communicate clearly with other people.

  • So thanks so much for this.

  • And I'm so happy to hear that you feel like you've improved since you've started using our lessons and our materials.

  • That is awesome.

  • So please take care and good luck as you continue studying English.

  • Thanks so much for this.

  • Okay, that is everything that we have for this month.

  • So thank you so much to everybody who took the time to reach out to us.

  • So which country did you like the best?

  • Leave a comment below, or do you think you can do better?

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  • Yes, everyone watching this record A 32nd toe, one minute video or audio clip.

  • Tell us, what did you do this past summer?

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Hey, everyone, welcome to the Monthly Review Monthly Show on Language Learning where you discover new learning strategies, motivational tips, steady tools and resource is, by the way, all the free lessons and bonuses you're about to see can be downloaded on our website.

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