The Way to Speak English Like Native Speaker By Mr. Wang
The Way to Speak English Like Native Speaker By Mr. Wang
The
Desire For Change (The ultimate power)
What kind of jobs could I
get if I could only speak translated, broken English with a strong accent. That
inspired me to start looking for opportunities to improve my English fluency.
One day, I watched an
advertisement on TV and saw an expert called Fluent English Mr. Wang who
guaranteed English fluency. He guaranteed that if you were just starting to
learn English and took lessons from him for a year, your English would be more
fluent than others who'd learned English for ten years. “How amazing is that?”
I thought, but there was a problem. Fluent English Mr. Wang only offered to
teach one-on-one private lessons but I didn't have the money. By the way, a
private lesson at the time was $30 per hour.
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I wondered what Fluent
English Mr. Wang did to get that kind of result, but I didn't call him because
I thought he wouldn't tell me anyways. Then I thought, “If he can find a way to
do it, I can find a way to do it, too!”
So I started by reading
books from the library on English fluency. All of the books I intentionally
picked were written by native speakers because I thought I should learn from
the native. There were lots of words I didn't know but I looked them up in the
dictionary.
After I read about 10 books,
I summarized all of the strategies into a list of 10. The strategies were
something like “Listen listen listen,” “Read read read,” “Use what you've
learned,” “Build your vocabulary,” and so on.
I started applying these
strategies, and I could understand a little more English but the strategies
didn't make me speak any better.
So I kept reading books, and
again, all were written by native speakers. But they all said pretty much the
same things. I kept reading and reading. As far as I can remember, I read a
total of about 60 books, and again all of the books I intentionally picked were
written by native speakers, and all of the books said almost the same things.
The strategies were
ineffective, so I tried a different approach.
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Instead of picking books
written by native speakers, all the books I picked this time were written by
successful non-native English speakers who had made their English fluent. I
picked and read about 10 of them. To my surprised, all the books said the same
things as the 60 books written by native speakers EXCEPT for one thing – Repeat
what you hear again and again.
“Repeat what you hear again
and again” wasn't mentioned in any of the 60 books written by native speakers
at all.
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Out of the list of 60 books
written by native speakers, one was very useful. This book wasn't about how to
speak fluent English, instead, it was about how to become successful written by
Tony Robbins. I came across that book and wondered for three seconds of whether
or not to take it. At the last moment, I decided to take it just to take a peek
at it in case if there were something useful. To my surprise, it turned out to
be a great book on how to set goals and how to become successful. I summarized
that book and the ten books written by the successful non-native English
speakers and came up with one strategy, a strategy I later named My fluent
english Formula.
The Perfect Opportunity
I was 20 at the time, living
in the Brooklyn area of New York City. Every day I took the subway trains to
and from Manhattan. The trip took 40 minutes each way on the train. The walk to
the train station from home took 12 minutes and the walk from the train station
to work took five minutes. All added together, a round trip took an hour and 54
minutes each day. That created a perfect opportunity for me.
I brought my Walkman with me
while on the way to work and on the way home. I normally listened to English
lessons and sometimes songs, but after I read the last 10 books written by
non-native speakers and worked out my strategy, I used the Walkman to try my
new strategy – Repeat what you hear again and again.
Taking Action
During these round trips, I
first tuned in to a news station. It was NPR, National Public Radio, to listen
to the news. It worked very well during the 12-minute walk to the train
station, but once I entered the train station, the signal was lost. When I got
home at night, I recorded the news on a tape for the next day so that I could
listen to it on the train. After that, I recorded fresh news every night.
I started by whispering the
news, but then I began saying it louder. New York subway trains were as noisy
as thunders, and thanks to that! The noise created the perfect opportunity for
me to work on my strategy – even the person sitting next to me couldn't hear
what I was talking about. So I got to practiced the entire train rides both
ways.
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In the beginning, there were
lots of words I didn't understand, but I repeated them anyway! In the
beginning, the news was too fast for me, but I repeated what I heard even if I
couldn't catch up. Often when there was a word or a phrase I couldn't say, I
would rewind the tape and listen to it again. This time, I only listened to it.
If I still couldn't say it, I would rewind the tape again and listen again
until I could say it. Then I would repeat the word or phrase once, twice, three
times … until I could correctly say the new word or phrase. It helped a lot!
The next time I heard that same word or phrase, I could correctly say it.
Following Through
Three months later...
I decided to record my own
speaking to see how much I had improved because I had heard some people (at
least three that I remembered) saying that I spoke good English. So I wrote
down some daily conversational phrases and recorded my voice saying them. To my
surprise, I DID speak what I wrote down pretty fluently! I could still hear my
accent but the accent was much lighter. Compared to other ESL learners, my
English was even better!
I got excited about the
results and decided to slightly adjust my approach.
The first thing I changed
was recording the news once a week, listening and practicing the same English
from native speakers for a whole week. In the beginning of the week, there was
almost always something I couldn't say. At the end of the week, I'd mastered
speaking everything on the whole tape. I was even almost able to recite
everything on the tape including words, sentences, tones, flow...
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The next week, I recorded a
new tape and did the same things for the rest of the week. I did it for a month
and mastered four tapes of English taught by native speakers. On week five, I
went back to practice the previous four weeks' English with one tape per day.
For the remaining days of the week, I practiced the tapes that I had the
hardest time with.
Within a month, I'd mastered
speaking four tapes of English taught all by native speakers. Each tape was 60
minutes long. Four tapes were 240 minutes of English taught by native speakers.
The Result
Three months later...
As you may have guessed, I
recorded my speaking again and the results were surprising! My accent was gone,
my voice was clear, my pronunciation was correct, and my flow was smooth. In
other words, my English was fluent!
It was a total of six months
that I had spent practicing my English, but the result was overwhelming.
After talking to a friend on
the phone for a moment, the friend suddenly asked, “ What did you do?” I said,
“Huh? What do you mean?” He said, “Your English! It's GOOD!” I could hear the
word “good” was coming from his heart. He said the word “good” with a tone that
was so sincere that I could feel the energy of his voice.
Two of my cousins, both
native speakers, asked, “How come YOUR English is so good but your brother's
and sisters' are not?”
The Continuing Effort
I didn't just stop there.
For the months and years that followed, I continued to use my strategy when I
found opportunities even though my situation had changed.
Years later I developed yet
another strategy I called Open Throat, which I'll talk about in the next
chapter. When speaking English with the Open Throat Strategy, my English sounds
absolutely, 100% native.
When my son was in first
grade, he invited me to read to his class as a guest reader. His teacher was so
upset because I looked like I couldn't speak English, which would mean disaster
to her class. However, his teacher was absolutely stunned when I spoke. I saw
her eyes widen for five seconds followed by a long smile. She watched quietly
as I inspired her students to enjoy the book by talking with 100% enthusiasm
and speaking in 100% native English. She then suddenly jumped into action by
whipping out her camera and started taking pictures. She even interrupted me by
asking if she could put a picture in her class newsletter.
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She later asked if I could
participate more to help her in her class activities.
How Fluent? One Word: Native!
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This is a strategy which I had later
developed that brought my fluency to the next level – native. I called it Open
Throat.
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When practicing, open your throat, talk with
your diaphragm, and bring the energy from your stomach.
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The energy flow and the way of speaking make
a huge difference. To do this, you must open your throat, let the air flow
through, and talk with energy from your stomach. You should feel your stomach
tighten when you talk.
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So bring your energy up all the way from your
stomach, let the air flow from your lungs through your throat, and talk with
your throat open.
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After my daughter joined her school chorus
class, she told me that her chorus teacher taught the class the following:
“Open throat!”
Have you ever seen anyone
sing with their throat? In other words, singing like that is called singing
with a “Chicken Throat.” It's far from good. How do you like that?
Are you too nervous to speak
English? Are you too shy to speak English? Are you using Chicken Throat to
speak English because you're nervous or shy, because you're afraid you'll make
mistakes so others may laugh at you?
Listen to me: English is a
foreign language to you anyway. Making mistakes speaking a foreign language is
very normal! Instead, open your throat to speak English. Open your throat and
use Myfluentenglish formula to make you speak English like a native! Do that
for six months, and then, when you speak like me, when you speak English like a
native, and even native speakers are scare of you, who is going to laugh at
you?
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