you a powerful way to improve your speaking ability hi everyone and welcome

to English monthly review in this monthly video series you'll discover new

learning strategies motivational tips steady tools and resources and then

we'll give you a chance to show off your language progress for all the world to

see our favorite submissions will be shown in future videos that is if you're

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sign up for your free lifetime account and start speaking in minutes how to

train your reading writing speaking and listening skills now for the really fun

part I'm going to break down some learning tactics and show you how to

apply them to our learning program follow this guide to improve your

language skills so do you have a language learning weakness what do you

want to improve this brings us back to what I mentioned at the very beginning

of this video speaking is the most common answer to these questions so

let's start there a powerful way to improve your speaking ability is by

shadowing shadowing means mimicking what you hear repeating out loud so if you're

listening to or watching one of our lessons just repeat what you hear out

loud but it's not always easy to repeat what you hear which is why it's best to

have a lesson transcript with you something that you can read along with

lesson transcripts are free and are available with every one of our lessons

on our site just click the link in the description and sign up for a free

account if you don't already have one next listening skills have you ever

listened to a conversation in your target language but had trouble

processing all the words this is another area where a transcript is super useful

as I said earlier we have transcripts available for every single lesson on our

site but even beyond that there's something called line

line audio this allows you to break down our lessons into small chunks that you

can listen to again and again until the information sticks so transcripts and

line by line audio are two amazing resources that are ready and waiting for

you on our site next let's do writing here's a super simple tactic you can

apply it with our lessons or any other program or resource that you use write

out the words the sentences and the dialogues literally copy them out by

hand by doing this you don't have to wonder what should I write so with the

lessons or even with the dialogue from your textbook try copying out the

dialogue by hand and finally reading we talked about the importance of having a

transcript to improve your listening skills for reading the opposite can be

very beneficial have the audio version listen to the audio this will make

reading a lot easier for you because you can hear how each word is pronounced and

can easily follow along you won't get stuck wondering how a word should be

read you can do this with our audio lessons read the dialogue or the

transcript while listening you can also use our extensive reading book which

includes audio take these ideas and apply them to all of your lessons

now speaking of lessons and resources here are the newest lessons and free

resources of the month first is the ultimate listening comprehension

practice video if you want to immerse yourself in the language and sharpen

your listening skills download this next we're giving you the language learning

strategies PDF guide to help you study the language and finally you'll get the

top 15 job interview questions you'll learn how to ask questions like where do

you see yourself in five years and why do you want this job in your target

language click the links in the description to access these free lessons

and resources all right because this is the very first episode of the monthly

review we're asking you to submit a video of yourself speaking the language

here's the challenge record a video or audio file if you're shy and introduce

yourself in your target language with what you've learned from us so far

your reward will be a one month premium plus subscription and we'll feature you

in next month's episode so a lot of learners will see your progress and will

hopefully get inspired to improve their skills and master the language to submit

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on the page thank you for watching this very first episode of our monthly review

next time we'll talk about how to achieve your English goals when your

motivation is low in the meantime submit your recording if you're brave and don't

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