1-Learn collocations. 2-Learn phrases for the conntexts you need to speak English in. 3-predict what phrases you will need in the contexts you speak English in. 4-use vague lge when you don't know the english vocabulary. 5-use your own lge to help describe a word you don't know. 6-learn -fixed expressions to help with your fluency. 7-pay attention to natural speech on TV/Radio ETC. 8-train the muscles in your mouth to make the sounds of English. 9-break stces up into speech units to help with fluency. 10-use a voice recorder to practise your speaking skills.
Native English speakers, especially American ones, could benefit from your channel. Non-English teachers or those who didn't study English would never learn the word "collocations", for example. I've known quite a few young people who are Native English speakers and they wouldn't know what to say in a lot of situations like the ones you talk about now. Now I need to go look up what an "oyster card" is and how it works. :) Native English speakers in the US learn how to say things, but they often never learn why things are said the way they are now. Hehe, Americans, for the most part, only know the word "knackered" if they are fond of British TV or they know old fashioned words associated with butchering. I love your work!
I'm also a native English speaker...from Sydney, Australia. I like hearing Tom's british accent...in fact I'm fascinated by different accents! Btw are you from the States or Canada?
As an eleventh tip guys, I propose one of my favorites. Get the songs' lyrics that you like most (old or new as long as you are involved) and then sing aloud following and imitating the singer. The constant repetition of this "performance" is for me an excellent training to improve the pronunciation, to memorize words and phrases and also to recognize the words from the sounds and then ...... sing loudly is so pleasant and liberating, innit? Thank you very much Chief D 🙋
I keep a notebook everytime i watch TV and write down words and phrases that I am not familiar with. Just as I take note of all your tips and lessons. 😚 Keep the lessons comin'👍 👍🙏
Good stuff as usual Tom, Thanks a lot. 1. would you mind making a video about the most 20 or 30 used English adjectives, nouns, verbs, and adverbs and their advanced and strong synonymous? For example: Beautiful: Gorgeous - Stunning - lovely. Very powerful or very large: mighty. Important : crucial - critical. strong: robust. and so on. 2. Also, could you please make another video about the correct used words in certain situations? Because we, Non-English speaking people, usually use generic words when it's required to use specific words in certain contexts. like, we may say (the doctor said, he must CUT his leg) but it should be (yhe doctor said he must AMPUTATE his leg). we may say "I'll take a taxi" (this is a literal translation from Arabic) but in English it should be "I'll hire a taxi" (ad far I know). I'm looking forward to watching these two videos soon please. Thanks in advance Tom, Regards, Ahmad,
By the way... Those mouth muscles exercises are very useful in every language that's not your mother tongue... I can speak 7 languages and the most difficult for me to speak properly was French... It just gave me lots of headaches and sore throat as well 😄😄
Sunset Swallow ... Mashalla!! 😃 ... Great, I hope you enjoy learning Spanish... El español es un idioma muy rico y variado... You'll see!! ... Was really nice sharing with you ... Au revoir!! 😊👋
Thanks for this useful video mr. Tom I haven't checked your videos for a long time.I found this video great .I would love to follow next ones, thank you.
So true! For example a lot of my Spanish speakers often say 'make a party' which is a direct translation when it should be 'have a party'. Can you think of any other examples?
Hi Tom! Thank you for such a great video! I think learning collocations and fixed phrases are the most useful tips. On a more practical plane it's also important to train your mouth muscles.
💗 your lessons and especially the No 9. ☺️ So here is a tip from me: If you have a favourite actor or other personality you admire you can try to mimic him or her and the way they speak. It's fun and makes you learn faster 🙋
I used to try mimicking John Bradley, but I realised I was trying to sound like him. In fact, that helped me a little bit, but hearing your own voice and trying to adequate it to your way of speaking is more efficient.
I like the 10th one( you need to record your voice ) for sure I thought that I’m pronouncing words correctly but once when I record myself lol wait .. there’re a lots of mistakes that I need to work on. So yes, thanks a lot indeed !
When using modeling, Steven Wright and John Moschitta will give you totally different results. As much as people complain about the intelligence or ability of newscasters, they are trained to speak clearly at a natural tempo.
Hey Tom! You make amazing videos! Thanks a lot. Could you, please, make a video where you explain the differences between “should, could, may, can, might, must”, and when to use it? It would be helpful for me. Thanks a lot
I absolutely love your videos, thank you for making them!! I find listening to the TV shows and repeating their pronunciations to be very helpful. Today I have a question regarding the absolutely knackered statement. I have the emphasis on absolutely as it is the same in my local American announciations but I noticed a slight difference in the pronunciation of knackered. Specifically the "ered". In my style of American English we heavily pronounce the "er" and then end with a hard "d". What I noticed is almost skipping over or using it as "ur" so the combined "er" sounds like "urr" sound blended into the "ed" with a soft "d" ending in a lightly tagged on "t" at the end. So what I hear for "ered" sounds like "urrdt". So knackered sounds like knack + urrdt. Is this correct or am I missing the subtle annunciations?
Hey Tom! Great video again! I like the idea of the mirroring technique, I used something similar to improve my pronounciation by learning some songs lyrics and then doing a kind of at-home karaoke 😄
I love each of your class. May I ask you a question? I consider if I might practice my mouth muscles by telling tongue twisters. Do you think i's a good idea or you suggest something better?
I don’t stop watching your videos. They are amazing 😉 and really helpful I don’t know 🤷♀️ how to thank you 😊 Please keep them coming we need them to improve as you’re the best teacher on TH-cam you’re doing great 👍 efforts thanks again
I like your lessons. Still working in the tongue twisters you tought in another video. I wouldn't want to record my spoken English though cause I know it doesn't sound as it should and I hate that 😉 It sounds right in my head but my mind is faster than my mouth...
Hi Tom, thank you for the video ;) I like listening to a news BBC world service at our czech radio during my way to work. I use the tip number 9. I should break sentences up into speech units. I speak faster than is necessary and my friends look so confused :)
Thank you so much Tom for these amazing tips. I'll try each of them. When I study for my exams, I'm learning words with their synonyms.I think it's very useful for reading tasks 😊
I'm going to try to "use dictafone method" , other methods I do :D . I have problem with times in speaking , I'm still making a mistake in auxiliary verbs when I speak , but I know the basics and rules and grammar but when I speak I can't think that fast :/ and Im really sad about that (or maybe angry on myself), if you guys have any advice, let me know please :)
I really like your channel.. you're the best teacher ever, the way you teach makes it look easier. Thank you for this great help! HELLO from DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 😆😄
Is there any "trick" that could help non-native speakers to understand immediately those similar-sounding words (homophones) like rash/rush, here/hear, there/their and so on?
Hey, Tom, could you please tell us more about the difference between BrE and AmE using some cool songs of both countries musicians? For example, Céline Dion in her ballad written for Deadpool 2, “Ashes”, sings a in “ask” like in “and”, not like in “art”, which’s pretty interesting. Thank you in advance, cheers from Moscow! PS A nice lesson, as always ^^
If someone had asked me "what's that thing you use to travel around London?" I would've certainly said: oh, you mean: 'the tube'?, 'the bus'?, 'the ferry'?, 'camels'?, 'flying tea cups', until I finally remember 'oyster cards' exist... :S Sorry, simply not that good at guessing games here... :(
For an intermediate as i am, i think it can be useful to start with a simple tv program like a nature documentary: in those programs they usually use short periods and speak quite slowly and clearly, with a good standard english. This is my little tip. Please correct any error i would have made! Peace guys!
Kulsoom Saima the combination th in the word "the" is pronounced as the d in the Spanish word "cada". You'll pronounce it well if you know or speak Spanish.
1-Learn collocations.
2-Learn phrases for the conntexts you need to speak English in.
3-predict what phrases you will need in the contexts you speak English in.
4-use vague lge when you don't know the english vocabulary.
5-use your own lge to help describe a word you don't know.
6-learn -fixed expressions to help with your fluency.
7-pay attention to natural speech on TV/Radio ETC.
8-train the muscles in your mouth to make the sounds of English.
9-break stces up into speech units to help with fluency.
10-use a voice recorder to practise your speaking skills.
I agree learning collocations helps to speak English better. I think this tip is very useful.
Glad you agree Magdalena, it's so important for learners to start doing.
Native English speakers, especially American ones, could benefit from your channel. Non-English teachers or those who didn't study English would never learn the word "collocations", for example. I've known quite a few young people who are Native English speakers and they wouldn't know what to say in a lot of situations like the ones you talk about now. Now I need to go look up what an "oyster card" is and how it works. :) Native English speakers in the US learn how to say things, but they often never learn why things are said the way they are now. Hehe, Americans, for the most part, only know the word "knackered" if they are fond of British TV or they know old fashioned words associated with butchering. I love your work!
I’m a native English speaker...and listen to you to hear the British accent. I’m going to Europe in the fall...maybe I’ll make it to the UK! 🤙🏼
I'm also a native English speaker...from Sydney, Australia. I like hearing Tom's british accent...in fact I'm fascinated by different accents!
Btw are you from the States or Canada?
In the states you have several local dialects, and vastly different accents. I understand you better than people 300 kilometers away from me.
I use to "talk" with myself to improve my English. Thank you so much for the tips.
This is the content I ve been waiting for my whole life.
Thank you, Tom. It's been one of the best helpful lessons I've had. Straight to the point. Thank you!
Ur welcome init
I am fond of your English spoken
Kulsoom Saima XD hhh me too
As an eleventh tip guys, I propose one of my favorites. Get the songs' lyrics that you like most (old or new as long as you are involved) and then sing aloud following and imitating the singer. The constant repetition of this "performance" is for me an excellent training to improve the pronunciation, to memorize words and phrases and also to recognize the words from the sounds and then ...... sing loudly is so pleasant and liberating, innit? Thank you very much Chief D 🙋
all of these tips are very useful! thank you Tom for sharing all of them!
Practical and useful tips! Thank you
Thanks a lot Tom,you are the best
One of the most useful videos ever!!!
I keep a notebook everytime i watch TV and write down words and phrases that I am not familiar with. Just as I take note of all your tips and lessons. 😚 Keep the lessons comin'👍 👍🙏
Love this idea Morgan, thanks for sharing!
What was the last word or phrase you wrote down?
Ohmygosh... That's a great idea.. 😮
Morgan Bev Hello Morgan, may I ask you how you organize your notes for a quick search and consultation? Thanks anyway 🙋
I cannot find any fault with your excellent English, nor could I really improve your post. Well done.
You're great! As usual, I find your classes very useful! Your tips are really good!
I'm getting addicted to your lessons... I enjoy it a lot. They are ver very helpful.
Number one and two very useful for me, thanks!
Thanks, Tom!
Good stuff as usual Tom,
Thanks a lot.
1. would you mind making a video about the most 20 or 30 used English adjectives, nouns, verbs, and adverbs and their advanced and strong synonymous?
For example:
Beautiful: Gorgeous - Stunning - lovely.
Very powerful or very large: mighty.
Important : crucial - critical.
strong: robust.
and so on.
2. Also, could you please make another video about the correct used words in certain situations?
Because we, Non-English speaking people, usually use generic words when it's required to use specific words in certain contexts.
like,
we may say (the doctor said, he must CUT his leg) but it should be (yhe doctor said he must AMPUTATE his leg).
we may say "I'll take a taxi" (this is a literal translation from Arabic) but in English it should be "I'll hire a taxi" (ad far I know).
I'm looking forward to watching these two videos soon please.
Thanks in advance Tom,
Regards,
Ahmad,
Great suggestions Ahmad, I'll see what I can do. Certainly I like the situational videos and I'm doing an airport one soon.
Eat Sleep Dream English
I'm sure it will be a useful material as usual insha'Allah ☺.
Thanks Tom for ur kind response
Ha, ha, ha, ha... "Semi-fixed expressions are... Expressions that are semi-fixed". I loved that part! 😄
Even I speak English on daily basis but I really enjoy your clips. Thank you.
By the way... Those mouth muscles exercises are very useful in every language that's not your mother tongue... I can speak 7 languages and the most difficult for me to speak properly was French... It just gave me lots of headaches and sore throat as well 😄😄
Sunset Swallow yes I do! 😊
Sunset Swallow sure!! ... I speak English, French, German, Arabic, Turkish, Catalan and Spanish
Sunset Swallow hahaha... That would be a fantastic option but now it's not in my plans learning a new language... Maybe in a few years 😃😃
Sunset Swallow thanks to you... But before saying goodbye... Let me ask you, which languages do you speak?
Sunset Swallow ... Mashalla!! 😃 ... Great, I hope you enjoy learning Spanish... El español es un idioma muy rico y variado... You'll see!! ... Was really nice sharing with you ... Au revoir!! 😊👋
THIS WAS SUPER USEFUL ! THANKS TEACHER TOM !
You are very welcome Just Grace : )
Great tips. I'm a native English speaker, but these are useful to learning any language.
You are awesome!!!! From Argentina!!!!!
Thanks for this useful video mr. Tom I haven't checked your videos for a long time.I found this video great .I would love to follow next ones, thank you.
Ahhh welcome back Emre, great to see you again : )
Mate you're definitely the best teacher that I've ever had Cheer
That's really kind of you AldousSouza, thanks very much : )
Im always like yours tips. Thanks
They were very useful tips .. Thank you so much Tom 🌹🌸
Hi Tom! This video is really useful! Learning collocations is perfect in order to avoid making direct translations from your native language! 🖒
So true! For example a lot of my Spanish speakers often say 'make a party' which is a direct translation when it should be 'have a party'. Can you think of any other examples?
Eat Sleep Dream English Yes, in Spanish we say get married "with" , but the right preposition in English is "TO"
Thank you so much:)
Thank you for your video.👍👍👍👍👍
‘live aboard’ sounds like ‘Liverpool’ for me at first hhh. Very great and helpful Tom, thanks
Hi my favorite English teacher ❤️ you are sooo nice and it’s a pleasure learning English with you, thank you so much 😘
Ahhhh you are too kind Serena, thank you : )
A million thanks to you,can you tell a few examples about semi fixed words because it is not a long time since I've started watching your videos
Deedly, it`s a very useful info!!! Thank you, Tom!!! You`re a brilliant teacher!
Always a terrific class! Thank you, Tom!
Thank you so much. They are very useful.
We need more videos on American vs British expressions and phrases.. And thanks :)
Hi Tom , very useful tips thank you so much!
Massive thank you Tom! This video is very useful. ♡♡
Good advices!!!
The best way to learn English is definitely watching your videos. Thank you so much for being awesome
thank you teacher Tom!
yes you are amazing love it sooo much
Great to know, Teacher Tom! I really love this video it's another tips. Great job!
Thank you Tom for very useful tips))
Hi Tom! Thank you for such a great video! I think learning collocations and fixed phrases are the most useful tips. On a more practical plane it's also important to train your mouth muscles.
Blimey muckah luv England TFL wow
💗 your lessons and especially the No 9. ☺️ So here is a tip from me: If you have a favourite actor or other personality you admire you can try to mimic him or her and the way they speak. It's fun and makes you learn faster 🙋
Emma W. What if i have more than 1 favourite actor? Is it good to mimic all ofthem?
I used to try mimicking John Bradley, but I realised I was trying to sound like him. In fact, that helped me a little bit, but hearing your own voice and trying to adequate it to your way of speaking is more efficient.
That's an excellent idea as long as you can/like listen to your own voice. I just can't! In fact, I even hate it. Always have 🙄
These tips are quite useful, I really like it. Greetings from Mexico.
I like the 10th one( you need to record your voice ) for sure I thought that I’m pronouncing words correctly but once when I record myself lol wait .. there’re a lots of mistakes that I need to work on. So yes, thanks a lot indeed !
When using modeling, Steven Wright and John Moschitta will give you totally different results. As much as people complain about the intelligence or ability of newscasters, they are trained to speak clearly at a natural tempo.
I can repeat everything you explained for us, but how can I memorise those things ? This was my challenger.
Hey Tom! You make amazing videos! Thanks a lot. Could you, please, make a video where you explain the differences between “should, could, may, can, might, must”, and when to use it? It would be helpful for me. Thanks a lot
Thank you alot.You are great teacher and I learned from you alot of Phrases english.❤👍
Great advices Tom, thanks you so much :) greetings from México
Yes
They are very useful to me
Thankyou so much
Tom❤️
I absolutely love your videos, thank you for making them!! I find listening to the TV shows and repeating their pronunciations to be very helpful. Today I have a question regarding the absolutely knackered statement. I have the emphasis on absolutely as it is the same in my local American announciations but I noticed a slight difference in the pronunciation of knackered. Specifically the "ered". In my style of American English we heavily pronounce the "er" and then end with a hard "d". What I noticed is almost skipping over or using it as "ur" so the combined "er" sounds like "urr" sound blended into the "ed" with a soft "d" ending in a lightly tagged on "t" at the end. So what I hear for "ered" sounds like "urrdt". So knackered sounds like knack + urrdt. Is this correct or am I missing the subtle annunciations?
Hey Tom! Great video again! I like the idea of the mirroring technique, I used something similar to improve my pronounciation by learning some songs lyrics and then doing a kind of at-home karaoke 😄
Ah yeah that's a great technique Auri, I think songs are so useful to learn English.
I love each of your class. May I ask you a question? I consider if I might practice my mouth muscles by telling tongue twisters. Do you think i's a good idea or you suggest something better?
your videos are always exciting bro! keep up the great work
Congratulation, you are great. I live in Peru
I don’t stop watching your videos. They are amazing 😉 and really helpful
I don’t know 🤷♀️ how to thank you 😊
Please keep them coming we need them to improve as you’re the best teacher on TH-cam you’re doing great 👍 efforts thanks again
Thank you Tom I love to watching your video :)
Hopeful tips thanks 🙏😊
Well done!
Thanks man
I like your lessons. Still working in the tongue twisters you tought in another video.
I wouldn't want to record my spoken English though cause I know it doesn't sound as it should and I hate that 😉
It sounds right in my head but my mind is faster than my mouth...
Hi Tom, thank you for the video ;) I like listening to a news BBC world service at our czech radio during my way to work. I use the tip number 9. I should break sentences up into speech units. I speak faster than is necessary and my friends look so confused :)
wow !!! another late night and your latest video jumped into my eyes somehow !! :)))
I am going to use all Your tips except the tenth .
Hi
Can you please make a video about the voiced th sounds. Thanks
Each of your tips are brillant . 👏👏Thanks Tom.
Thank you so much Tom for these amazing tips. I'll try each of them. When I study for my exams, I'm learning words with their synonyms.I think it's very useful for reading tasks 😊
I'm going to try to "use dictafone method" , other methods I do :D .
I have problem with times in speaking , I'm still making a mistake in auxiliary verbs when I speak , but I know the basics and rules and grammar but when I speak I can't think that fast :/ and Im really sad about that (or maybe angry on myself), if you guys have any advice, let me know please :)
You can speak more about collocations please! ..
Your videos are very useful. 🙏😁
I really like your channel.. you're the best teacher ever, the way you teach makes it look easier. Thank you for this great help!
HELLO from DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 😆😄
Do the English use the word "drizzle" like we do in the US?
hey, tom I wanna see a lining words class, please!
Thank you Tom, I found it very useful. 😊
For me, the 10th was the most useful... from now on I'm gonna record my voice as you said 😄💕
Is there any "trick" that could help non-native speakers to understand immediately those similar-sounding words (homophones) like rash/rush, here/hear, there/their and so on?
Wow this so funny... You make me feel like I'm back in highschool and waiting for the favourite teacher!!! Amazing video class teacher Tom!! 😉
Can you tell me what is deffrent between full, whole and entire
Very useful. There is an app for collocations called Frasingo ( is free ).
what about idioms?
Hey, Tom, could you please tell us more about the difference between BrE and AmE using some cool songs of both countries musicians? For example, Céline Dion in her ballad written for Deadpool 2, “Ashes”, sings a in “ask” like in “and”, not like in “art”, which’s pretty interesting.
Thank you in advance, cheers from Moscow!
PS A nice lesson, as always ^^
If someone had asked me "what's that thing you use to travel around London?" I would've certainly said: oh, you mean: 'the tube'?, 'the bus'?, 'the ferry'?, 'camels'?, 'flying tea cups', until I finally remember 'oyster cards' exist... :S Sorry, simply not that good at guessing games here... :(
For an intermediate as i am, i think it can be useful to start with a simple tv program like a nature documentary: in those programs they usually use short periods and speak quite slowly and clearly, with a good standard english. This is my little tip.
Please correct any error i would have made!
Peace guys!
"Period": did you mean "sentence"? And careful with capital letters: "I" and "English".
When we pronounce the word (the) as (da),and (di).....
Kulsoom Saima it goes ‘ee’ before vowel sounds as in ‘the apple’
The /da/ before consonants sound and The /di/ before vowel sounds. Remember that is *vowel sound* not letters
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Виталий Давыдов thank u
Kulsoom Saima the combination th in the word "the" is pronounced as the d in the Spanish word "cada". You'll pronounce it well if you know or speak Spanish.
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I try to be connect-corrected back, innit?
French Fries rule !!!
what is your accent ? please
Please suggest web series or movies that help to improve eng
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