How can we improve our oral English quickly?

How to improve oral english in short term?[:480:]

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seemingly no one wants to begin the discussion. so let me start it and see if there is enough interest to continue the topic.  

as far as i know, the bottom line is that you spend time with your native English speaker friends. it is best that you have a boyfriend or girlfriend who speaks English. another way to improve your oral English is to move to a dorm where you can interact with people who are not your classmates...

at the same time, you may have to get rid of the English grammar lessons which you have learned back in China. at least, you will do it for the moment because you can't think of the correct grammar while speaking the language. for this, you have to make a wholesale adaptation into the environment, or the culture to be more exact, in order to learn English as a mean to communicate. surely you hope that your native language, Chinese, will have minimal interference with your learning of English, a completely new language.  

from my own experience i know that it is no easy task. but i can tell you that it is also not so difficult as some of you may have thought it to be. perhaps, getting started has already been the most difficult moment; after that, you will get better off every day. you may even find it fun and an enjoyable experience, by the way.

That's a good way to do ,thanks.

wonderful !

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hello cathy, haven't seen you for a long, long time. how are you?

Besides certain people very gifted and talented in language learning, there is no quick way to improve oral English for most of us, especially for our Chinese people.  Our mothers』 tongue is so different from English』s and other than we do with our native language daily, we need to learn the way we express ourselves in English, the English way.  We need to open our mouths wide and speak English as often as we can. Learn and memorize key phrases like 「thank you」, 「excuse me」, 「you are welcome」, etc. Training our ear is also very important for us to improve the ability of catching key words and phrases and using them. Start with materials that fit you, and read the transcripts loudly after what you have listened to if possible.

If there are any English natives available, we definitely can benefit a lot from hanging around with them.  I am afraid many of us won』t have the opportunity. If not, don』t get too discouraged from that. We always can learn and improve oral English from each other as well as from any non-native English speakers. Staying together with English natives doesn』t guarantee our oral English can be upgraded quickly. Here』s a story I want to share with you:

One of my friends used to share an apartment unit with an American and wished to learn oral English from him within months. Half a year after, his oral English was not much improved as expected. However, his roommate surprised him with an unbelievable ability of understanding him without talking to him much in either language just after the short stay with him. It seemed the American could read his minds whenever his mouth opened, and they didn』t have to talk further. My friend teased himself about how good he was at teaching Americans to communicate with Chinese people.

the more you  communicate with your friend in English, sooner or later you will improve.  

But of course, dont afraid of speaking wrong English, as it will help to you improve as well.

it is exactly what we should focus on.

against all being implanted in our unconscious mind by that notoriously famed thing formally called exam-oriented education, we use English not for showcasing our ability to make grammatically perfect sentences, but for conveying our ideas so that we can be better understood by our landlords, professors, classmates, and every of those nice people whom we want to befriend, which is utmost important for the urgent purpose of all us--to survive of this jungle world, oops, this English world.

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好了，貼上來幾篇聽力教材，都是本周末到 chinadaily 網站去「借」來的，分 「VOA慢速」 和 「VOA常速」。另外還有「傲慢與偏見」的電影片段，包括對白講解，到目前為止共有三講。

這都是為了幫助練習口語，是沒辦法之中的辦法——這件事，恐怕除了在英語環境中培養鍛練，別無他途。古語說「學海無涯苦作舟」，聽來實在不是一句好話，就特別想知道一條「捷徑」，哪怕稍為快一點也好啊！

對了，各位「寶」存有或者「艷」遇到什麼好的，就是自己喜歡的那種，也請貼上來與大家分享分享。adelyn 在這裡先謝過！

I think it hasn't short pathes to improve Enlish in  short term,whatever you need to read,speak,write in your mind,this is just the tip of studying.
One of my friend told to me,"please don't care about the language grammer if I  understand you."Let's make efforts to improve our English together.

Two quick ways (this may sound crazy, but I can assure you, they work.)
(1) Talk to the TV, or specifically, pretend you are one of the character in you favourite show, and join in the discussion. If you are in China, put a blind over the bottom of the TV so you cannot read the Chinese subtitle. Next, pretend you are part of the people on screen and start talking back. You can even do this when watching news. When Paula Zahn or Wolf Blitz says something, you asked, "Why is that so?,  "Tell me more", "Now that's interesting"...etc.

(2)Read comic strips. Yes, you heard me. Read comic strips. You get the added bonus of getting a glimpse into the culture (an important component in learning a language well.) Where to get them?
Washington post on-line and Seatle Times have both a large selection.
From: Yeti's 自學英語學習計劃 (Self-learning Program for English) Page 3 http://www.rainlane.com/dispbbs. ... p;skin=0&Star=3 第 24 樓

  Here are two sources on the Internet where you will find plenty:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp ... g/comics/index.html

and

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/hi.asp

For beginners, I would suggest Hi and Lois, a family situation comic strip. "Zits" would provide you with plenty of "conversational English" of young people, Sally Forth and Blondie would put you in an office and family setting. Other easier ones include Haggar the Horrible, Beatle Baily, Garfield, Fox, For better or worse, and the Wizard of Id.

  The more difficult ones, ones that requires a lot of understanding of the social, economic, academic and political landscape of the United States, are Doonesbury and Opus.

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What NOT to learn from: Mistakes ridden on line "free downloads" that are available in many "Learn English" sites in China. Sad to say, some of these materials are "low grade" in the sense they are full of mistakes. One such is the 《每天口語練習》. See  [更正/加 注]每天一起練口語的中譯註解  http://www.rainlane.com/post.asp?BoardID=11&ID=21413

speak with each other who can speak well,that is a good way for oral english.

omg, guys really good english!~~~

No short cut, just practise.

practice makes perfect !!

與人爭論是快速提高的好辦法...

可以先和熟人爭論，再出去和西人爭論，每天大吵三次，小吵不斷，而且要在爭論以後記錄下來不斷反思，如此一個月下來，保你張嘴時不僅口若懸河，而且思維縝密，受益終生...

實在找不到人爭論，就上論壇，和網友爭論，別人用寫，你邊寫邊說，雖然效果差不少，也能將就用...

不是開玩笑，是真的！