Very often I get this question from my students, that, how to be a good speaker! Believe me its very easy. Simply speak fearlessly. My experience says its about 80% of students invest their 90% of time only to memorize notes which help them only to get good scores in damn exams. Basically they are taught to take exam on their skills of memory not on their ability or talent or development in the field of education. Swami Vivekananda said years before - "Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man." - but how many of us value these great words?
Whatever, Stop memorizing. This is my first suggestion. To talk well its essential to know what to talk about - first listen to your heart, and get the idea washed by your brain and then let it come out from you mouth like a stream, let it drop like a cascade; and only then day by day you will earn fluency, eloquence and all other qualities to be a good speaker; your dream to be a good speaker will come true. Maximum students tear their hears off for grammar; its as peculiar as the worse mistake we ever commit in our life. Grammar is not a language itself, rather its just like the notation in music; only helps people to speak in same tune. Get the example of a 'baby'. How does he or she learns a language? preferably thier mother tongue? NO never by grammar, rather they learn the language first, by listening, thinking, speaking; environment make them educated, no grammar teacher. They get graduate's degree in their mother tongue far before they learn grammar. So care for communication, not the construction, not grammar.
In a nutshell, by swimming we learn swimming; same way, by speaking we can speak good...
So start talking...
Arindam Chandra
A language teacher in CCAI
Whatever, Stop memorizing. This is my first suggestion. To talk well its essential to know what to talk about - first listen to your heart, and get the idea washed by your brain and then let it come out from you mouth like a stream, let it drop like a cascade; and only then day by day you will earn fluency, eloquence and all other qualities to be a good speaker; your dream to be a good speaker will come true. Maximum students tear their hears off for grammar; its as peculiar as the worse mistake we ever commit in our life. Grammar is not a language itself, rather its just like the notation in music; only helps people to speak in same tune. Get the example of a 'baby'. How does he or she learns a language? preferably thier mother tongue? NO never by grammar, rather they learn the language first, by listening, thinking, speaking; environment make them educated, no grammar teacher. They get graduate's degree in their mother tongue far before they learn grammar. So care for communication, not the construction, not grammar.
In a nutshell, by swimming we learn swimming; same way, by speaking we can speak good...
So start talking...
Arindam Chandra
A language teacher in CCAI
