I want to speak english very confidently and fluently.
Is there any other way to improve.
I watch English movies,read news paper,watch english news channels and listen.
I do learn new words.
Is there any other way to improve much faster.
Thanks,
Vinay.
"Here are a few tips and tricks which can help you to improve your communication skills. These tricks were used by our trainers at inlingua institute, while we were undertaking training in English language. I hope these will also help you:
1. Find native English speakers: In certain areas it's the hardest thing to do, but it's the best use of your time. Talking to actual native speakers is the most effective way to improve your English skills, speaking or otherwise.
2. Listen to the music of English: No, not English music, the music of English -- its lilt, its prosody, the sing-songy-ness of it. The intonation. Even if you speak perfect English technically, if you speak it like a robot you're not speaking it the way it's meant to be spoken.
3. Slow down: Above all, if you want to be understood, slow down. The more clearly you speak the better chance your listener has of understanding you. It's tempting to get nervous and want to speed up to get it all over with, but you can't do that! Clarity is the key -- for some native English speakers, too!
4. Record yourself: Though we hear ourselves all the time, we really don't know quite what we sound like. So record yourself! What are the weak and strong points you hear in your speech? And then you can concentrate on what you need to work on.
5. Speak English at home: This is the biggest, easiest mistake to make. You go about your day, you're on the job working partly in English, you go to your English class, and then you go home and revert back to your native tongue. While you may be making slow improvements, you'll never get past that dreaded lingual plateau. Make a point to speak it at home, too. Have only English at the dinner table. Stick to English TV at home. Make it as 24/7 as possible."
Thanks all for the tips and adding new suggestions.I will keep working on to improve.
I agree with Lianne Barnard, regarding interact in English. It looks like most of your English is kind of passive: you just listen, just read and just watch. Now you have to try to use it in an active form. If you don't have language partners or teacher to speak you can start writing comments, participate in discussions or maybe find a pen pals.
You are working very hard to improve your English! It is more than what most of my students do. I have noticed that my best students read a lot. It does not matter what you read as much. Personally I prefer novels, because it is difficult to put a book down if you don't know if the murderer will be caught or if the lovers will find each other again. It does not feel that much like hard work then.
Another strategy is to interact in English. Look at blogs and share your ideas. If you are interested in cars or cooking, look at websites and think about your interests and what you want to know. Don't think of working hard for English. Just absorb the language almost by accident while you are thinking of other things.
Finally, if you want to know exactly how much you are learning, try getting a practice book (e.g. vocabulary or grammar) and do the exercises. Check your answers and mark the ones you had wrong. Learn these and then next week you do the same exercise again. You will see how you progress and will feel that you are working really hard.
Vinay:
The only additional recommendation that I could propose is this.
You can also study popular songs in English.
Many lyrics to some that I recommend can be found in
my Notebook Entries.
Besides this, reading Non-Fiction books on almost any subject can greatly improve your vocabulary. (You can read Fiction just as easily, but the vocabulary cannot prepare you quite as quickly for an English Language Exam)