speak English fluently? Do you want to

speak English like and native? If the

answer to these questions is yes then

stay tuned because I have five essential

pieces of advice that you should be

following in order to achieve fluency.

Hello my name is Anna this is English

like a native and we're finally

answering that age-old question how to

achieve fluency when learning English. Of

course there is one thing that you

should all be doing in order to improve

your English and that is to spend some

time working one-on-one with a great

English teacher. Now lots of you asked me

for private lessons and I do as many

private lessons as I possibly can but I

can't see all of you, however I do have

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let's get down to business, what five

things do you need to do in order to

achieve fluency?

Practice every day! If you don't use it

you lose it, that means if you're not

practicing on a regular basis your brain

will forget the information so make sure

you're practicing your English on a

daily basis even if that's just singing

an English song when you're driving to

work or thinking about English sentences

and phrases while you're brushing your

teeth. So if you seriously want to be

fluent don't make excuses just do it

Don't be afraid to fail, making mistakes

is all part of the process if you don't

fail then how will you ever succeed how

will you ever learn. Speak even if you

don't know how to pronounce the words

Write even if you don't know how to

spell the words. Have a conversation even

if you don't fully understand what the

other person is saying. When children

learn to speak they make mistake after

mistake after mistake but by trying the

people around them are happy to help

them and encourage them to improve; as

adults we become self-conscious and

frightened of failure but without the

courage to make ourselves vulnerable

without the courage to step outside of

our comfort zone then you will never

grow or improve or reach your goals so

go out and make mistakes. Be courageous

enough to fail and by doing that you

will succeed. Natives can read write

speak and listen so if you want to be

fluent in the language you have to

practice all things equally so on a

regular basis start watching English

films or an English series. Follow an

English podcast or listen to the radio

Connect with natives or other English

learners to practice your speaking on

a regular basis or just talk to yourself. Write a

diary, write stories, even write your

shopping list in English. On a daily

basis you can read an English newspaper

or follow an English blog. My point is

you should be learning via many

different avenues reading writing

listening watching speaking to lots of

different people so don't get stuck just

doing one thing. Stop worrying about the

rules. English is a weird language it

doesn't always make sense but us natives

don't worry about it so neither should

you. Everyday I get hundreds of

questions things like why do we

pronounce this word in this way? Where

did this word come from? Why do i

structure the sentence in such a way? Why

don't I say it like this? And in most cases

my honest answer is: I don't know. I

didn't make the language. I didn't make

the rules or the exceptions to the

rules; f I did make the English language

then I would have made it a lot easier

but the point is we don't need to know

why we just need to know how. If you're

learning to drive a car you don't need

to know how the car works, how it turns

petrol into energy to make the car move

All you need to know is how to actually

drive, how to stick the key in the

ignition, how to control the car, how to make it go and how to make it stop, not

how it works that's not important. It's a

waste of your energy, it's a waste of

your studying time, it's a waste of your

memory space learning all those rules

and origins so stop worrying us natives

don't worry about it so neither should

you. If you truly want to speak like a

native then learn like a native. There

are two distinct ways to learn a

language; the first is probably how you

are trying to learn the language now.

You learn the rules, you do lots of writing

exercises grammar drills, you learn the

exceptions to the rules, you learn big

list of vocabulary, ah. So what you're

doing is learning the language and all

the rules which most of us natives don't

actually know and never learnt. And the

other way to learn language is to learn

like and native learns the same way that

you learn your language when you were

very young. You watch situations, you

learn the words to describe the way you're

feeling, you learn the phrases to

describe exactly what you want, you

listen to people talking on a daily

basis, and little by little you start to

remember certain words when you hear

them over and over again. You try to

speak you try to communicate. You may

get it wrong, people correct you, that's

okay. You improve and slowly but surely

through listening experiencing enjoying

speaking reading writing slowly but

surely you acquire the language. But

everybody's different. Some people like

to learn the language learn the grammar

learn the rules and other people like to

acquire the language experience the

language if you do this it will be more

fun the language will last longer and

you'll speak more like a native. If you

do this, it might not be as fun, it might

take a long time, and you might not sound

like a native at the end of it, but how

about doing a lot of this with a little

bit of that, so that this can then help

to reinforce that. So there you have it

five things that you should be doing in

order to achieve fluency. If you found

this in any way helpful then please show

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let me know how you get on I'd love to

hear about your progress. Okay until next

time take care and goodbye