G'day mate. How are you doing? Today, I'm going to talk about why I say "Writing is like speaking". Writing is a byproduct of what you say. So, you should be able to write as you speak. Without further ado, let's get into it.
First of all, your writing skill is absolutely intertwined with your spoken skill. Of course, there's an exception. But, normally people should be able to write things you wanna say with ease, like speaking. Why? Because, apart from the accuracy of spelling, what you can produce in writing is almost synonymous with what you can produce in speaking. Almost equivalent. You cannot write things you cannot speak. If you can do so, it's highly doubted that your written work is a sort of artificial sentence, which means that you probably look up words in the dictionary, and then you sort of try to incorporate them into your writing even if you don't really understand the correct usage. This produces weird sentences, I mean, a little bit wonky ones.
To prevent you from this, what you should be doing is not to look up words in the dictionary, and you try to get the most out of your own words, which is of paramount importance when it comes to boosting your writing skills. Yes, definitely, you should try to learn new vocabulary day by day, but it doesn't mean that you'll be able to use them tomorrow, because you need to get used to them gradually. This is a long term process until you can use them freely, easily as well as accurately. Particularly, as for writing you have enough time to think about words you wanna use, unlike speaking. For speaking, in contrast, your instantaneousness is critical, right? The most important thing is practice. That's everything whether or not you'll get used to.
For instance, writing a piece of diary in English offers a good starting point of how your spoken is strong or weak. In other words, this daily routine tests your spoken skills. If you can speak English quite naturally without having significant errors or producing strange expressions, then I don't think you're gonna be struggling to write a piece of sentences. Even spelling should be no problem at all as long as your pronunciation is crystal clear, or accurate. It doesn't have to be perfect, but at least 80% accuracy is needed to make sure that you don't normally make spelling mistakes. With regard to English grammar, your common errors in speaking can also be seen in writing as well. So, in total, pretty every aspect associated with writing can be rectified by proper daily speaking practice, such as fixing pronunciation, read aloud, etc.
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