Sasha Ganieva

In my opinion, in order to improve your listening skills, you should start to watch cartoons with subtitles, then after you realize that you can understand the cartoons without subtitles, you can try to watch movies with the same method. It will become very easy to understand everything. Second, music lyrics aren't the easiest thing to understand, even for native speakers. Actually people look for them in the internet and then memorize every single word. That's how the majority of people do. You may also surf the internet in order to get the lyrics of your favorite song, then you just learn each sentence and its meaning. That's how you will understand almost every song. You should start a conversation with a native speaker. As soon as you find somebody, pay attention to the accent he makes, it may be American English or British English. Then, you should see how to pronounce every single word and try to copy the prononciation. If you chat often in a different language than your native one, you will learn the other language very fast and easier than with a teacher and a book.

Hi guys. I’m learning English as a second language since school, yet, I have difficulties with my speaking. I think it’s because we have no native English speakers in our country, so the environment does not support the students to speak English frequently. The question is how can I improve and practice my speaking skills?