will help you speak English clearly so that you're easy to understand.

It's very effective. Before I began doing this exercise, I spoke like this:

As you can hear, back then I did not speak clearly. I was mumbling all the time. If you

have the same problem, this exercise can help improve the clarity of your speech.

Here's how it works: First, you need to find English listening material like an audiobook

or a podcast. And by the way you can find a link to download this kind of material for

free at the end of this video.

Once you have that, just listen to it and try to repeat what you hear to the best of

your ability. This will help improve your speech in several ways: it helps strengthen

the muscles involved in speaking, it helps improve your pronunciation, and so on.

This exercise seems easy to do, but doing it effectively is not easy. The results you

get depend on your accuracy. If you can repeat what you hear accurately, you will get great

results. But if you're not very accurate, you'll probably get poor results. So let's

talk about the single most important thing you can do to get the best results possible

from this exercise.

The single most important thing you can do is to slow down the audio before doing the

exercise.

Most media players allow you to change playback speed. You can use that function to decrease

the playback speed like this:

If it's a video, slow it down as well.

Why do we have to do this?

Well, there are two reasons.

Firstly, it ensures that you will speak slowly. Speaking fast is not good. The faster you

speak, the more mistakes you'll make. Every time you make a mistake, you're more likely

to repeat that mistake in the future. We don't want that to happen.

Secondly, in order to repeat what you hear accurately, you need to hear it clearly. But

if it's too fast like this:

If it's too fast like that, you're going to miss some details. You're not going to hear

some sounds such as the -ed endings of verbs in the past tense. If you don't hear the input

clearly, the output you produce will not be accurate.

Now let's see this technique in action.

OK. It's simple, right? All you have to do

is listen closely, repeat what you hear. When you repeat, pay attention to your pronunciation.

If it sounds good, move on. If you hear a mistake or if you're not sure, go back and

listen to that part then try again until you get it right.

Also, if the current sentence is long, you should pause mid-sentence and just repeat

that part. Don't wait until the speaker finishes the whole sentence or you might forget the

beginning of that sentence.

The key is to practice slowly. Don't rush. Your goal is accuracy not speed. It’s not

how fast you can do it. It’s how slowly you can do it correctly.

Alright, that's all you need to know to get great results from this simple exercise. If

you want to get started, click here to go to my website where you can download some

materials to practice with for free.