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hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

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vanessa calm today we're going to talk

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about the top three ways to improve your

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fluency and confidence in english let's

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get started in this video i combined

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fluency and confidence for a reason both

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of these concepts go together you can't

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be fluent if you're not confident

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confidence when you speak and when you

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use English so valuable I think this is

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the base for all English learning you

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can't improve your vocabulary your

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grammar your pronunciation unless you

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feel confident first so that's what

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we're going to talk about today the

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first way to improve your fluency and

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confidence is consistency this is

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something that's so hard for me but it's

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such a valuable thing consistency means

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doing something every day doing it

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consistently every day listen to English

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every day read something in English

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every day speak in English if you can do

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something with English consistently

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every day if you miss a day it's okay

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but try to be consistent try to include

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English every day

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the best way to be consistent is to be

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using English in multiple ways maybe

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every day you don't feel like listening

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to a podcast in English that's okay

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you also need to have a YouTube channel

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that you enjoy listening to or a

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Facebook group community that you can

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interact with or maybe a speaking

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partner you can talk with something

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different that you can do each day will

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help you to maintain your motivation

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because no one likes to do just the same

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thing every day we like to have variety

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it keeps your interest and it's

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necessary the second way to improve your

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fluency and confidence is be

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nice to yourself it seems so simple

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doesn't it well if you have a

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conversation in English and after the

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conversation you feel like what did I do

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I should have said this why did I not

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say that

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why did I feel so nervous be nice to

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yourself even if you have been learning

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English for 12 years for 20 years and

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you had a bad experience with just a

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simple English conversation take a deep

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breath and be nice to yourself everyone

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is human you are human I am human the

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best way to maintain confidence and to

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even have confidence in the first place

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be nice to yourself if you're having

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trouble being nice to yourself one

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simple thing that I recommend is to turn

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the sides of your mouth up smile if you

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made a mistake smile even if it's a fake

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smile

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this act will help you to feel like you

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know what everyone makes mistakes

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I can still smile I can still be happy

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if you're having a conversation and you

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don't know what to say smile everyone

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understands a smile or laugh it's great

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to be able to laugh at yourself

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to laugh at jokes a simple smile will

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help you to maintain a positive attitude

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the third way to improve your fluency

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and confidence is to read out loud in

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the video about how to improve your

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speaking I mentioned speaking loudly and

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how that will improve your speaking

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well that will also improve your

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confidence and if you don't know what to

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say take a book and read it out loud or

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maybe a blog post or a news article when

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you read out loud you are using natural

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english sentences it's

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your sentence but it's still a natural

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sentence and your voice is saying those

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beautiful words out loud I think it's

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really important to make a connection

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between your voice your ears and natural

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English so that's why I really recommend

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reading out loud for example here is a

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sentence from this book it's out of

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context you don't know what the book is

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about but if I read this out loud when

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he returned his face was flushed read

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his expression sullen and the sign was

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nowhere to be seen

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oh it's not your sentence it's not even

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my sentence but because I read it out

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loud I know that I can say those things

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it is going to help me in my mind to

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connect new grammar structures new

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vocabulary words maybe you don't know

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the word sullen maybe you don't know the

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word flushed but your voice said those

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words so it is going to improve your

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confidence and also help you to fluently

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use natural grammar like this sentence I

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hope that these three tips consistency

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be nice to yourself and reading out loud

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will help you to improve your fluency

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and confidence do you have any other

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suggestions for improving fluency and

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confidence write them in the comments

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below I would love to see them let's

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share our ideas together thanks so much

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and I'll see you later bye did you enjoy

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these tips well I have a gift for you

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tips to improve your English so that you

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can quickly remember each step there are

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speaking vocabulary and grammar click

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