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If you’re reading this, I imagine you want to communicate with confidence and competence in English.

假定你在看这篇文章，我能愿望你是想非常好、更自傲地用英语交流。

What you need is to become a self-directed learner, somebody who takes responsibility for their own learning and creates their own learning programme to develop their English.

你需要做的是变成一个自立学习的人，有些人对待学习很自觉，而且会做出自个的学习方案来前进自个的英语。

Here are 33 ways to speak better English, without going to classes.

下面是不必去上课学习就能让你说好英语的33个办法。

1. Record yourself speaking English.

录下自个所说的英语。

2. Read aloud, especially dialogue.

大声的读出来，特别是对话。

3. Sing along to English songs while you’re driving or in the shower.

开车或洗澡的时分跟唱英文歌。

4. Watch short video clips and pause and repeat what you hear.

看短视频，按中止然后重复你听到的。

5. Learn vowel and consonant sounds in English.

学习英语元音和子音的发音。

6. Learn and identify schwa.

学习并学会辨认中性元音。

7. Learn about weak and strong forms of common words.

学会常用词的弱读方法和重读方法。

8. Learn about word stress.

学会单词的重读。

9. Learn about sentence stress.

学会语句的重读。

10. Identify fixed and semi-fixed phrases and practise them.

学会辨认固定短语和半固定短语，并不断操练。

11. Learn about collocations.

学习固定分配词组。

12. Replace regular verbs with phrasal verbs.

学会用动词短语来替代规则动词。

13. Learn short automatic responses.

学会简略而天然地应对。

14. Practise telling stories and using narrative tenses.

操练叙说故事和叙说的时态。

15. Learn when to pause for effect.

学会啥时分该中止以抵达非常好的作用。

16. Learn about chunking.

学会拆分。

17. Learn about typical pronunciation problems in your first language.

学习跟你同个母语的人的典型发音疑问。

Find out about the problems people who speak your first language have when speaking English and you will know what you need to focus on.

找出那些跟你说相同母语的人在说英语时会呈现的发音疑问，你就会晓得你大约留心啥。

18. Choose an accent you like and imitate it.

选一个你喜爱的口音腔调并榜样它。

19. Find an actor/actress you like and identify what makes them powerful speakers.

找一个你喜爱的男演员或女演员并找出是啥让他们变成健壮的演说家。

20. Use a mirror and / or a sheet of paper for identifying aspirated and non-aspirated sounds.

用一面镜子或一张白纸来区分送气和不送气的音。

21. Practise tongue twisters.

操练绕口令。

Tongue twisters are phrases designed to improve your pronunciation of particular sounds.

绕口令是专门用来前进你对某些词的发音的语句。

22. Practise spelling names, numbers and dates aloud.

操练大声地拼读名字、数字、日期。

23. Learn about common intonation patterns.

学会常用的语音语调方法。

24. Learn about places of articulation.

学习发音的方位。

The articulators are the parts of the mouth we use to turn sound into speech.

发音的方位是咱们嘴巴把声响变成言语的一有些。

25. After looking at places of articulation, practise making the movements that native speakers use when they speak.

在学会发音的方位后，操练英语母语者说话时是是怎样移动发音方位的。

26. Learn why English is a stress-timed language.

晓得为啥英语是重音节拍的语音。

The rhythm of the language is based on stressed syllables so we shorten the unstressed syllables to fit the rhythm.

言语的节奏是根据重度音节的，所以咱们会缩短非重读的音节发音以便习气言语的节奏。

27. Learn how to interrupt and interject polit

ely and successfully.

学会如何礼貌且成功地打断和刺进别人的说话中。

28. Learn about ellipsis, assimilation and linking sounds.

晓得学会省掉不读、浊化和连读。

29. Speak lower not higher. Studies show that you command attention and demonstrate authority with a deeper vocal tone, especially men.

说话要低沉一些，研讨标明低沉的声响能使你赢得留心力和展示你的权 威，特别是关于男人来说。

30. Listen and read along to poetry (or rap songs) to practise the rhythm of English.

收听和朗读诗歌或饶舌歌曲来训练你的英语发音节奏。

31. Learn exclamation words and fillers.

学会用感叹词和填充词。

32. Learn how to paraphrase.

学会如何做进一步阐明。

33. Use contractions more.

多运用缩读。

Contractions make your speech more efficient because they save time and energy.

运用缩读能让你的说话更高效，因为这样说会节约时刻和精力。

Say ‘should not’ and then say ‘shouldn’t’: which is easier to say?

像说‘should not’和‘shouldn’哪个更简略说呢?

Now, here’s your CALL TO ACTION.

如今是你呼唤自个去行为的时分。

In the next 33 days, spend 15 minutes every day on one of the tips. I’m sure you’ll notice a huge improvement.

在接下来的时刻里，每天花15分钟的时刻在上面说到的每个点上。我信赖你会有一个很大的前进前进。

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