10 Most Effective Tips to Improve English Communication Skills | Complete Tutorial

English is one of the most spoken languages in the world. From social media to the corporate world, it is used everywhere to a great extent. In spite of being one of the most common languages for communication, most of the people face difficulty while speaking it. Unlike the native speakers, most of the people couldn’t get the fluency and confidence while speaking English.

Here, in this article, we are gonna discuss the measures to improve the English communication skills which enable one to speak fluent and confident English. Fluency is actually nothing but a collection of habits, like speaking complete sentences without thinking of the grammar behind it or using English sentences while verbal communication without translating them from their native languages in mind. But how one would be able to achieve those habits and what are the practices one has to do for achieving it?! Let’s discuss all those practices one by one.

1) Slow Down Your English Speaking Speed:

From the very initial stage, most of the people try to speak very fast English to improve their fluency. But it really doesn’t work that way. At the initial stage, if you would try to speak very fast English, you would get stuck again and again. So, in the beginning, slow down your speed and try to complete your conversation effectively. Once you would achieve the accuracy and competence, you could increase your speed of speaking.

2) Don’t be Afraid of Making Mistakes:

“A bunch of mistakes is called experience.” So don’t ever let your fear of speaking wrong English stop you from speaking it. Even if you get to know that you are making mistakes, keep speaking it. You believe it or not, continuous speaking of even wrong English would improve your English “communication skills” over the time.

3) Keep Listening English from Various Sources:

Not only speaking but listening will also play a vital role in improving communication skills. If you really want to improve your English, you have to listen to English movies, English music, and English news channels etc. The more you will listen carefully, the more you will get familiar with the language.

4) Keep Reading English from Various Sources:

Just like listening, reading also helps a lot to get familiar with the language and to get new words every day for your vocabulary. So, try to read as much as possible from various sources like English newspapers, magazines, various online articles on your favorite topics etc and note down the new words and use them in your English communication.

5) Use New Words Before Losing Them:

Whenever you get a new word, use them instantly while speaking. If you will not use them for a while, you will surely forget them and it will not make any value addition to your communication skills. So, make sure to use any new word or newly heard/read sentences instantly while communicating.

6) Start Thinking in English:

The quantum of conversation we use to do with ourselves in our mind, we don’t generally do with anyone else. When we adopt the habit of thinking in English, it starts working on our fluency. And with the passage of time, English starts to come automatically from inside of us. So, whenever you are thinking something, make sure to think it in English.

7) Use Complete Sentences While Communicating:

Whenever you are speaking English, use complete sentences to express yourself. For example, instead of saying “yes, no, ok” etc., try to say “yes, I will definitely do this work.” Using complete sentences while communicating will increase your capacity to express yourself.

8) Arrange a Regular Speaking Partner:

The more you will speak, the more you will get. It is very important to speak whatever you have learned from various sources. Find a partner for yourself with whom you could have your English conversations. Your partner need not have very good English communication skills, he/she just need to have the willingness to speak English. You could have a partner who is also learning English speaking. It will help both of you to improve your “communication skills”. You could also get a native English speaker as your speaking partner from various conversation exchange websites or other online sources.

9) Keep Continuance in Practice:

Continuance in practice over a period of time is very much important to learn the proper communication skills. If one stops practicing it after a few months and then starts it again after a huge gap, he/she has to start it from the very beginning. The efforts will not be productive if there will not be the continuance in practice.
It is also not enough to spend e.g. 2-3 hours on a particular day of every week; it will not gonna work effectively. Giving 15-20 minutes every day is a better and effective option than the above one. One has to set it in his/her daily routine. Use English in your daily life as much as possible. The more you will be in touch with it, the faster you will learn.

10) Start Talking to Yourself:

As it’s not always possible to have a speaking partner with you, start talking to yourself. Don’t let the absence of a speaking partner stops you from speaking English. You are the best partner of yourself. Start speaking in English to yourself in front of a mirror. Doing it on a regular basis will increase your confidence and fluency in speaking English.

That’s it for this article! The measures mentioned above may look little odd but will definitely work over a period of time if you will follow them continuously. It’s all about practice. The more efforts you will give, the more results you will get. There is no shortcut or any secret tip which could improve your English communication instantly over the night. When you will start following the tips mentioned above, you would be able to realize that your English communication skills are being improved. English would start coming automatically from inside of you. First, you will notice the improvement in your fluency and then in your accuracy along with your overall communication skills. So, good luck and keep practicing!!