How to Practise Your English Speaking

If you don’t live in an English-speaking country, and you don’t have friends or family to speak English with, where can you practise your English speaking skills?

It’s easier to have a conversation if you have a reason to speak – something to talk about. These ideas all give you a reason to speak with another person.

Start a film or book club
Invite people to discuss a film that you all watch together, or a book that you are all reading. Prepare questions before, to help people talk about specific aspects.

Volunteer to help other people
Does your town or company often welcome foreign guests? Can you offer to translate for them? Or perhaps you can offer to help children or students with their English homework.

Take part in a film conversation
Watch a film on DVD, and decide in which part you can speak with the film character. Listen to what the character says (and the reply) then rewind, and either mute or pause the DVD after the film character speaks. Take the other character’s role, and reply to the first character. You can also find film scripts on the IMDb site. Print it out, then practise taking a role in the film.

Use Skype
Chat with other people in a penpal forum via Skype. You can get to know them first by writing to them, then invite them for a conversation.

Take English lessons
This is the most expensive option, but paying for private or group lessons is a good way to regularly practise your English. If you have a job, maybe your company can also arrange lessons for you.

Before you start speaking
– Try to plan what you want to say. Make sure you know the most important words or technical terms that you’ll need.

– Practise standard expressions. For example, “Pleased to meet you”, or “How are you?” Getting these expressions right makes you feel more confident to continue the conversation.

– As well as concentrating on what you want to say, also concentrate on listening to the other person. Give your full attention, and make sure you understand by using clarifying expressions such as “Sorry, do you mean…” or “I’m sorry, but I don’t understand. Can you repeat that please?” Don’t forget: being a good speaker also means being a good listener. People will want to have conversations with you if they know you’re interested in what they say!

See our page Better English speaking skills for more tips to improve your fluency and your confidence!

108 thoughts on “How to Practise Your English Speaking”

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razi August 26th 2013 at 17:08

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well September 7th 2013 at 11:03

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Andrew November 6th 2013 at 10:19

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Dannie November 6th 2013 at 12:23

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sarwein February 5th 2014 at 21:42

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priya February 9th 2014 at 16:18

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alireza March 10th 2014 at 22:14

I hope Ill talk very well, now days its my goal
Eric Roth March 24th 2014 at 06:42

Excellent list of practical tips. I would also add try to interview a native English speaker. I would also suggest – and I know this sounds weird – but talk to TV characters and try to guess the conversation. You can compare your response with the TV character’s next line. This game can be fun – but it also helps you understand conversation patterns better too.
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Manal June 5th 2014 at 18:31

I wish I can speak English very fluently and I get the Ielts to study at the Uni this September…
Jose Marcal June 6th 2014 at 04:05

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divya July 10th 2014 at 10:55

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Salah September 10th 2014 at 13:39

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Alireza September 25th 2014 at 12:15

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Markos October 20th 2014 at 05:47

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rexii. January 20th 2015 at 10:58

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Rekar February 19th 2015 at 21:08

english is easier , best thing to learn it , chat with other person that (he,she) knows english…
luke girls February 26th 2015 at 17:54

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Felipe May 15th 2015 at 21:16

My goal is to be as fluent as a native.
ahmed May 29th 2015 at 01:04

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Sande June 6th 2015 at 01:02

I want to be fluent in English
Diana June 6th 2015 at 06:15

Thank you guys for the good options, I really want to speak english very flawless, well, actually many people told me that i am good at pronunciation so i fell happy about that, but i need to practise my vocabulary, so here we go! <3
eman June 7th 2015 at 03:58

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shafiul June 17th 2015 at 12:48

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Belinassi June 29th 2015 at 00:25

My goals is speaking English as a native speaker, for that I need to learn many phrasal verbs
Lee July 21st 2015 at 13:41

English is very important in my life and my work then I want to improve my English.
naniss July 27th 2015 at 09:21

actually used to speak english with friends.. but now, i’m kinda tongue-tight due to my poor vocabulary.. huhuhu…
moin September 24th 2015 at 13:09

I want to speak english well
Adin September 27th 2015 at 16:08

I really want to go around the world with speaking English fluently. But, I need a friend to practice my English everyday. Actually, I have memorized lots of vocabularies. Unfortunately, they really useless cause I can not practice them in speaking. My big problem is I do not have a friend to speak.
Rajeshwari September 28th 2015 at 05:30

My enormous goal is will speak English fluently at least five whole minutes. so now i hope, i will implement that.
ghiz September 29th 2015 at 02:07

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karhik October 1st 2015 at 17:21

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Asegedech October 15th 2015 at 15:49

I want to learn English because it is important on my life. Thank you.
Natasha October 27th 2015 at 12:13

I want to improve my communication skill
vijay November 3rd 2015 at 06:35

I want to speak english fluently without any fear and gramatical mistake
geni dink November 4th 2015 at 07:07

I want to speak English by confidence
Pallavi November 20th 2015 at 11:51

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mukesh December 2nd 2015 at 03:51

i try my level best to speak english like a foreainer .
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shoushou December 14th 2015 at 17:58

I want to speakEnglish fluently this is my goal….
Shahabuddin Khan December 23rd 2015 at 09:07

I want to speak English with confidence and fluently.
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razi December 27th 2015 at 22:08

thanks for your advice bro
athul December 29th 2015 at 16:27

I want to learn English because it is important on my life. Thank you.
Mubasher Azeem Khan January 27th 2016 at 09:58

I want to speak English fluently and need advice
Samuel February 7th 2016 at 08:22

Thanks
YOGI PAWAR February 11th 2016 at 00:07

Very nice bro and so thank you
Tracy D February 29th 2016 at 10:57

These are good advices to improve our speaking skills. I wanna have a foreign friend to practice speaking with! :)
dev March 12th 2016 at 04:12

Nice guidlines I got lot of idesa how to I can improve english .but I have some problam to speaking reading tolking I can not fast tolk speak nd reading how to.imporve plz.guidn
Sakis March 17th 2016 at 12:36

Its important to learn to communicate with people in engish language.
Krishna April 2nd 2016 at 18:32

Advice is useful to me.it gives me confidence,and clear my doubts,thanks a lot and I will follow, and I will practice.
Raginee chaudhary May 18th 2016 at 08:43

thanks for telling me. and i will try how to speak english very well .thanks !
Noah May 20th 2016 at 20:57

i love to speak English and write my hobby is to see English movies
zandra June 17th 2016 at 09:39

I’m not confident about my english even we learn it as early as 3 years old.
Carlis June 23rd 2016 at 23:30

I reallyneed more práctice.
subbareddy June 30th 2016 at 12:04

i want improve my communication skills
sidhu July 1st 2016 at 06:51

It’s really helped me to be good fluent English speaker.but some time I do wrong pronounciation while talking and get disappointe so help me out plz
Talish Mirza July 4th 2016 at 20:21

Thanks for those tipes i will try to use those tipes as you as mention and speak english as well as i want to speak…
simanchal dalai July 21st 2016 at 11:54

i’m very very proud of speak english.
Nour eddin manna' July 21st 2016 at 17:28

Can I find a native speaker who wants to chat with me?
Clare Post authorJuly 22nd 2016 at 09:43

You can try Google+ hangouts for language learning communities where you can practise English with other people.
Ashutosh Mishra July 27th 2016 at 09:56

I love english but i have dont know english
fahar August 6th 2016 at 08:33

thank you very much for your advice because it is interesting
annkhu August 7th 2016 at 22:02

Thankyou so much for your advice.. I really want to be perfect at English speaking..
G.MAYURI August 9th 2016 at 11:18

im also having lots of stage fear to talk in english.
tarandeep August 17th 2016 at 13:11

I want 2 speak English, but don’t have confidence. so please help me…
sandile September 4th 2016 at 19:56

My wish is to speak English fluently
Dipak September 6th 2016 at 08:28

After reading it I thik that I can be fluent in English
tarik September 17th 2016 at 23:32

i hope that in this site can hepl us to speak english
Narayan September 28th 2016 at 19:57

would like to be a fluent english speaker.
Joomi October 19th 2016 at 21:27

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Md sabir October 21st 2016 at 17:02

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Ravikant singh November 9th 2016 at 20:43

I have no comment Bcz I have no idea but I want speaking English learn more
If you don’t mind
ANKUSH SHARMA November 16th 2016 at 16:55

i want to speak english
Ahamad Fawad Mahmoodi (Ramaki) December 10th 2016 at 18:22

really, you ensured me that i can speak English like mediocre speaker. thank you from your suggestions and reliable advices.
Louie Roy December 12th 2016 at 19:33

I want to improve my accent and english grammar…
Precious January 24th 2017 at 16:01

I want to speak English very well.
hansraj January 26th 2017 at 08:06

this is very great information for us.we all want to improve english.
dan January 31st 2017 at 11:37

I really want to learn English
krishantha February 1st 2017 at 18:22

Thanks this is the best information for me I world like to improve my speaking ability
sarath March 10th 2017 at 07:16

Its my dream to speak english very well….
Taraneh April 3rd 2017 at 17:29

Thank u . It was so useful and made me confident . Thank u so much.
Ken May 24th 2017 at 20:52

Keep it going guys! You should never give up on your aspirations and dreams. Keep practicing the English language and it will naturally show its results. Read English books/novels, watch English movies, etc. it will help you a lot.
Gopi May 26th 2017 at 10:36

This Is most useful for my current situation
shivam June 22nd 2017 at 07:53

I like english and english increase the confidence……..
Rabiullah niam June 22nd 2017 at 10:24

I want to be a English lecturer.
Dil Bahadur Chhetry June 26th 2017 at 13:33

I would also like to improve my english.
Kamalasiri July 12th 2017 at 17:20

Very good
Irwan February 6th 2018 at 08:06

I want to use Skype, but still hard for me. And I don’t have partner.
Thanks

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