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| rexkiu Diglot Newbie Hong Kong Joined 4013 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English Studies: Danish | Message 1 of 9 25 May 2013 at 2:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Sometimes, I cannot speak to other people, especially native speakers and strangers, in
English fluently because, during the conversation, I cannot think of some words to present my idea to them. What should I overcome this problem? Should I read more articles to learn more vocabularies? Can anyone give me some advice?? Thank you very much!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4820 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2 of 9 25 May 2013 at 2:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Learn to think in the language. Getting lots of input will help a lot.
If you think the trouble is that you don't know the vocabulary enough (or you have gaps in it), not just the ability to quickly recover it in the context, than Anki or another SRS might help you. I have great experience with cards translating from my language to the target one. But this should be used as a supplement to the native material, not the other way around. I find listening to be much better way to learn to think in another language than reading. While it doesn't force you to speak, it forces you to think fast and to get rid of translating inside your head. So, get a few tv shows and enjoy them. You seem not to need subtitles any more, which is great. Massive amounts of listening should make the speaking easier. It is not a full substition of course but I find it to be a very useful tool which removes several obstacles. And welcome to the forums! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| rexkiu Diglot Newbie Hong Kong Joined 4013 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English Studies: Danish | Message 3 of 9 25 May 2013 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you for your valuable advice!!
I am going to try to listen more to cope with my problem. However, I want to ask if listening to audio book is an another option. Once again, I really appreciate your advice. And it is nice to talk to you. (I would like to say that I really love this forum very much!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4820 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 4 of 9 26 May 2013 at 12:27am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm glad I could help.
Audiobooks are surely an option. I'd say they are less similar to the live conversation than the tv shows but you can easily put them in an mp3 player and listen on the go. Basically anything done in the language will help. Anything you enjoy doing in the language will help twice as much. :-) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6361 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 5 of 9 28 May 2013 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | ||
Only one solution, imo. Converse a lot. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5192 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 6 of 9 28 May 2013 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you don't know of it yet, you could try this self-talk exercise.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6408 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 7 of 9 29 May 2013 at 1:45am | IP Logged | ||
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And shadowing http://learnanylanguage.wikia.com/wiki/Shadowing
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4820 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 8 of 9 29 May 2013 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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I remembered another thing. Make notes of your mistakes, gaps etc. Doesn't matter whether
you make them during a conversation, self-talk, writing or whatever else. It makes a huge difference when you make a note and later cover the gap or trouble instead of repeating the mistake over and over (and over). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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