How To Speak English Like A Native Speaker

            There are many ways offered by many people out there through many media to teach you about how to speak English like a native speaker. But here, I wanna share my experience how to speak English like a native speaker. One thing you gotta know in myself concerning to English is that once I was wondering about how to speak English like a native speaker (intention), then I did a lot of things that literally helped me out to be like that. Here, I conclude my ways into 5 ways, but they’re kind of challenging for you. But anyways, you necessarily have to notice them, let's get started!.

1.      Get used to speak to your pairs or English teachers/lecturers or native speakers

I have a unique introduction to American culture, I started to learn how to speak English when I was 18 years old as I was a freshman in university. I found a great lecturer who was a native speaker from USA teaching in my university. I was grateful for having him cause in my mind I could learn a lot from him even though we’re totally different.

One day I challenged myself to ask a question with full English to that native speaker after he explained the explanation, he taught me in odd semester which was second semester. I tried my best. Suddenly, he understood what I just asked. Of course, I was so happy and I got fired up, then I made his understanding as a meaningful reward for me to be a better person every single day, and I was determined to be able to speak like him one day.

I love practicing and I truly believe this quote “Practice Makes Perfect”. As a result, there are many English lecturers complemented me that I am an advanced students. I thought that maybe I’m in intermediate level, but they assessed me like that, even it is “Advanced”, I thanked to them. After that, I am determined to really have to sharpen my skills in order to try to be perfect. I actually don’t have someone to talk to in English in my class, but I try to talk to my English lecturers. Definitely they understand me. I feel really blessed to have these great people. I don’t wanna be a student who’s like a person with suit and tie sitting on a chair that doesn’t have anything to be proud of and doesn’t have any significant changes, but I wanna be the opposite to that. The most important thing in practicing is consistency, while the most important thing in speaking is fluency. Grammar is not really important in it, because the function of language is to make your listeners understand, just be confident in speaking!.

2.      Love singing

Singing involves voice to do it and speaking is derived from voice. So, it’s important for you to love singing English songs. It facilitates you to sound words by imitating and pretending like the voice in the song. In fact, most of people liking singing are facilitated to speak English easily, clearly, and beautifully. Even though you’re not a singer, but if you like singing so much, it’s not that important talking about how awesome you sing, but it’s important for you to notice how you can pronounce word per word to improve your pronunciation.

      3.      Make intonation

My English lecturer who’s a native speaker ever said that “When an American speaks in English, their intonation or tone is not flat in the whole of their speaking, but it’s like high and down, back and forth”. An accent of English is not the same with your region accent, you have to try to PRETEND TO BE A NATIVE SPEAKER as possibly as you can. If you’re into British Accent, I think you’re gonna sound like a native speaker if you use intonation in your speaking, try it!

4.      Sound “R” letter correctly if you’re into American Accent

This kind of sounds cliché, but it really works, tho. Sounding “R” triggers your listener feels that you’re like a native speaker and it’s so cool. For those who are not capable of sounding “R”, it means you tend to belong to Bristish Accent, but it doesn’t always omit the clear R for all the time. If you insist to be able to sound a good R, you can watch this video below and practice it every day, it really works, and I believe you can do it. 

5.      Practice alone in home every day

You know what? You are responsible for your own self. If you come up with your target, hold it, and that yourself is a huge influence on it. Don’t be embarrassed if other people think that you’re insane, it’s not true, you’re doing something useful, not something useless. You need to much motivation to be brave. Your life is yours, not theirs. Use any recordings either it's audio or video in order to evaluate your speaking in a long range of time, for example 1 month or 3 months you want to compare. Then, ask your surroundings to assess your speaking. I’m genuinely sure that you’re on the lookout for your target. Practice a lot whenever you want and do not take for granted this practice. JUST DO IT!!!

So, that’s what I did, too. See after you do them all in a few days or weeks or months or years, there must be any changes, trust me, it works!.

Thank you so much for reading this, hopefully this blog will be useful for y’all, you may leave a comment and I’ll see you guys in the next blog… peace😘