G'day, what's up mate? Not much these days, actually. Today, I'm gonna be discussing why how you say is more important than what you say. The vast majority of people learning English tend to say like contents of what you wanna say is critical compared to how you say. But, in fact, no. Of course, what you say is becoming increasingly important as your oral fluency is improving. Otherwise, focusing heavily on contents impedes the way in which you talk. Without further ado, let's get cracking!
First of all, after acquiring the English language basics such as pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary, what you should be focusing mainly on is oral fluency such as phrasing, elimination of unnecessary pause and hesitation, as well as rhythm and intonation. These items make your speech clearer and smoother when you read connected material aloud. Even if you've got a variety of vocabulary and expression including things you wanna talk about, you don't wanna be stuck in the middle of your conversation with someone, right? And, the someone, apparently, doesn't want to strain to understand what you're trying to say. In this respect, oral fluency is more important than the things you wanna say. It doesn't mean that you don't need to care about that, but things like enunciation, speech flow and rhythm are in fact a growing concern for anybody who's learning English. They know grammar and vocabulary, pronunciation, but if you tend to stammer persistently, then no one can understand you properly. I'm sure everyone wants to avoid this situation, right? Ok, how can we deal with this?
Daily self-analysis is critical if you're passionate about improving oral fluency. Three things need to be done when you're practising reading articles aloud or talking to yourself. First, the pace or speech at which you speak is quite important, because keeping a good flow of what you wanna talk has a positive impact on your listener or fictitious person. What you should do is to get used to the normal speed of people talking like 30 seconds per paragraph (multiple sentences), something like that. To this end, you need to reduce unnecessary pauses and both language and content-related hesitations to get your speech much faster and smoother, don't you? Second, you Can make mistakes like difficult words to pronounce, which is perfectly fine unless you try to specify the meaning of it even if you're not 100 % sure whether the term is correct or not in terms of spelling, collocation or context. However, you wanna reduce any mistake in terms of verb-ending and plural nouns, which are highly likely to make people misunderstood. This is precisely because that verb tense and plural nouns have to be consistent when you're talking about something like things occurred in the past, things happening at present or future, depending upon story scenes. You cannot mess them up, which is extremely difficult to understand what you are trying to say.
Last but not least, phrasing is a must-do thing when it comes to improving your oral fluency. Even though speaking like word by word with crystal clear pronunciation is fine, this is not good enough to be able to speak well, because, first of all, you don't wanna be speaking like a robot, do you? You wanna definitely speak something like things that could cohere with the meaningfulness of phrases and expressions that you're trying to say, don't you?
To recap, what you say comes into fruition for your speech once you've reached a certain level of oral fluency. That is to say, the aforementioned three things have to be nailed first if you wanna think about the accuracy of various contents or what you wanna say.
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