Is SPEAKING really a way to FLUENCY?

[@NaturalEnglishListening]

If you have a good reason to improve then you will! 🙂 nice video!

[@danispeaker]

Yes, because once you've finished school, anything else that you choose to learn... its a matter of choice, right?Thanks for the comment!

[@Nick_Chavez]

An interesting thought is to learn to form all thoughts in English, which would be equivalent to communicating with people, if I understand correctly. But when you recommend reading for a better understanding of English, do you think that comments under different KZbin videos are ideal for this?

[@danispeaker]

That's a very good question! Im my opinion, reading a book and using the comment section are very different experiences, because the comments that you read and make here are basically made of emotions, making a comment its something very "emotional": you want to understand the other's opinions and you want to give yours. A book, compare to this, its more "passive" but its a great way to improve vocabulary. Make sense to you?

[@Nick_Chavez]

@@danispeaker I’ve considered books, but I’m avoiding them for now. Different books contain vastly different vocabulary, including passive and outdated words rarely heard in modern speech, and constantly encountering tens of thousands of words without knowing what to do with them seems like a dubious way to learn a language efficiently. That’s why I’ve long preferred analyzing and translating videos of native speakers - vlogs, for example - where the language is current and I'm becoming accustomed to hearing the same things repeatedly. I’ve been doing this for five months to get used to the language and its style, and generally understanding English material doesn’t present much of a problem now. I’m only now starting to practice speaking, mostly by comparing my attempts with a translator and consulting with ChatGPT. I’m currently facing a problem, for example, when I compose text: "Today I had an interesting day, a morning rather, I'm really wasn't planning to analyze a video interview Selena Gomez for this day, but suddenly a new video with her participation turned out in my feed. So therefore I decided to disassemble that one. I suspected that content was going to be much higher of my understanding of English by ear level, but it seemed like new material for me, so I've made a decision to work with this, which took a lot of time by the way, but still not in the way I expected." And it corrects me almost everywhere, pointing out critical errors and inappropriate style, suggesting instead that it would be more appropriate to express it like this: "Today I had an interesting morning. I wasn’t planning to analyze a Selena Gomez video interview today, but a new video with her appeared in my feed. So I decided to analyze it. I suspected the video would be beyond my current listening comprehension, but it seemed like new learning material, so I decided to work with it. This took a long time, and the results weren’t quite what I expected." I should mention that I’m trying to speak without understanding tenses and grammar; I’ve naturally been absorbing the language for about six months. The question is, if I pay attention to how I’m corrected, will my grammar and style improve, or is a deep dive into tenses and grammar inevitable for constructing speech? I don’t understand if I’m doing this right, because although I’m starting, I’m not able to express my thoughts correctly.

[@danispeaker]

@@Nick_Chavez I agree with you about the books, sometimes they have a lot of outdated words! You've mentioned that you use a translator to check your phrases, which type of translator do you use?

[@Nick_Chavez]

@@danispeaker yandex translator, it is the most accurate among all. Sometimes add google. I combine it with working in ChatGPT, which analyzes my mistakes in more detail, or translates something complicated in which one translator may not be enough.