Learn English skills for successful study

- How to be a good English-speaker.
- English cultivates professional relationships.
- How can I communicate clearly.
- Speak Excellent English.
1.Simplify Your English


Make sure that you simplify what you’re saying to increase chances of people understanding you. Using your best vocabulary isn’t going to impress anyone and will more than likely equate to you going in the wrong direction or eating something disgusting. Instead of saying ‘mate, how far is the airport, can you give us a ride there please?’ simplifyyyy ‘To the Airport, please’. Also, refrain from using colloquialisms, no one is going to understand them (e.g. ‘Where can I get some grub’), best to be as simple as possible – you’ll be amazed at how much this helps.



2.Speak Slowly

Non native English speakers need time to process what you’re saying. If you’re talking normally at a million miles an hour they can get confused and will end up responding with ‘yes’ and ‘ok’ to send you on your way. If you speak a little slower, there’s a much better chance of people understanding what you’re actually saying and more likely to be able to help you. It’s funny how many people I’ve seen speak very fast English and then confused as to why someone doesn’t understand what they’re saying….slow your tongue and this will help loads.

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3.Body Language

So you’re speaking slowly and simply, good stuff. A good way to help non native speakers to understand what your saying is to use body language. Whether this be for directions (hand signals when in a taxi helped especially in Taiwan), or in a restaurant (the funky chicken was a personal favourite on mine, and although looking like a complete idiot was funny to the restaurant, owners, the missus and we got some delicious chicken too). Body language can always accentuate what you’re saying and has definitely helped me when communicating with non-native English speakers.


4.Patience & Understanding

If it’s not their first language be patient and understanding so they have a bit of time to digest what you’re saying. At the end of the day, they are probably trying to help you so be patient. However if you’re getting nowhere after 5-10 minutes thank them for their time and be on your merry way. Always thank the person so even if they haven’t helped you much they at least think they’ve done a good deed (and let’s face it they’re intentions would have been good:)



5.Smile

Smiling encourages people to help you and shows that your friendly. Think of it on the flip side – would you rather help someone that is smiling, friendly and encouraging to you or a sour face, jibber jabbering in a foreign language? I’ll let you do the math on that one.


6.Prepare

Prepared written document to the non-native participants.Detail important items and action plans in clear and precise English. Be creative and use different words or sentence constructions. Do not hesitate to clarify by asking.


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