How to Talk Like a Native Speaker | Marc Green | TEDxHeidelberg

Recording yourself while speaking it's also a way to check how you actually sound like and improve your pronunciation. Most of the time we think we sound pretty good... Until we hear our own voice 😁

I'm tryng to improve my english by lestening to ted

my english improved a lot, watching and listenig TED's

Areas to work to become a native speaker: 09:45 Eliminate your accent 11:22 Colloquial Speech 12:47 Adopting cultural traits 14:55 Immersion 15:43 Learn the lyrics of songs 16:05 Right mindset: Sound like a native Express yourself like a native Act like a native 16:27 Main thing - work on your pronunciation!

English is my fifth language which i am learning. And I can tell you the best way to improve your comprehension of any language is listening videos more and more and then try to imitate the sounds.

Linguist here. Native fluency and master level are different concepts. For European languages, there is a scale from A1 to A2, B1, B2, C1 and finally C2. They represent different levels of speaking areas and skills, being A1 the basic fluency and C2 the academic one. A native speaker tends to be around B2 or C1, whilst the educated person (who has a bachelor degree, for instance) will probably speak a more sophisticated level of that language, which would be C2. Pronunciation is also different from accent. They are both connected, but having an accent doesn't make you worse speaker than a native person, on the contrary, it just shows one speaks other languages. The main point is if having an accent makes the other person confused or lead to misunderstandings, then you must correct it. I agree with the other points he said. Exposure to the language is very important: read, write, listen and speak as most as you can. That's the only way to be really fluent.

I am sure my fluency in English is improving a lot, I usually listen to Ted videos and also I practice my speaking by simulating English tests situations. I am going to try recording myself while I answer the task questions. And finally, after watching this video, I can conclude that we are the only ones that put or erase the limits to ourselves in learning a new language.

This man is amazing for revealing the secrets of successful language learning. Thanks mate!

Our accent is a part of our personality! I remember one of the British ladies told me, 'Larisa, do whatever you want to do with your English, but please do not change your accent. it is so beautiful.'

To summarize, first is to work on your pronunciation (eliminate your accent with a native speaker); second is Colloquial Speech (you have to learn expressions and idioms used by native speakers); third is Cultural Traits (internalize cultural traits of people of a particular language). That's all))) hope it will help you to save your precious time...

He left me without any words. Just an impressive and elegant speech! I wanna wish you all to reach the language level what you want!

That's incredible!!! Thanks for the way you're conveying the information!!! So pleasant to hear this all, my heart is full of many thanks to you!!! The video is useful, thank you very much!!!

I have been learning English for a year or more and it has really been difficult for me to understand when someone speaks native English. So I'm trying to improve my english by listening to videos in ted´s channel, and It is really helping me to understand more. I´m happy ☺❤

I think that his methods for improving our English skills are really good. I especially liked the way with native speaker and pronunciation imrovement. Also, I agree with him that watching TV films and listening to music are also very good pathes to learn foreign languages. Of all the language learning methods presented in the video, I personally use these two. Finally, I would to add that l I'm very impressed with the way he ended his speech. That was incredible!

It might be weird but I learned English just watching series (with subs) and repeating what actors saying. I was sitting in my room watching and copying phases like I was in front of a camera acting myself. I didn't plan anything. I was just imagining I am fluent already 😂 Years passed and now I live in the UK and doing my BA course because at certain moment my school grades for English became better (from 0, I couldn't say even "my name is XXX") and I saw so many new prospects I'm not saying my English is perfect now. I just can't believe that my whole life changed so much just because I've got a habit repeating words from tv shows

Last time, I listened to Ted's lecture about the reason for learning a language. I think it's very good to learn a language, but I can't learn it as fast. Also, I think there is a level of language. I was able to solve my curiosity by looking at this lecture and seeing how long it takes for me to learn the language that I was curious about so that I could do well like a local person, basic steps, and living language level. I'm interested in languages, so I want to be good at many things, but I've also solved my concerns about how to start. As I said in this lecture, I think the more exposed a language is, the faster it can be learned. And you can catch the words, humor, etc. used by locals use. My goal is to stay in a foreign country for about a year and learn a language before graduating later. I'm writing comments right now, but I don't have a language that I can say I'm good at, but I hope I can master one language by the time I graduate. When I saw the video about language before, I thought language was important, but I felt it again in this lecture.

I can confirm the accent thing. I worked on my mandarin accent a lot and when I speak to Chinese people, especially in my own country, they are really happy and friendly towards me, even giving me discounts when it’s a shop owner

The "ouch" example was great, that stuff is too difficult to control! :D You can be as fluent as possible, but if someone knocks a tray out of your hand, you'll swear in your mother tongue. Let me chip in with: NUMBERS. No matter the level of language proficiency, when you read a text and there are numbers in it, they'll come to your mind in your native language first... I think when you overcome that, that's when you've officially become like a native speaker, lol Written by my smartass English identity

this makes me feel a lot better about my french! ive always sort of thought about my goal for learning french not necessarily to be perfect, but to be seamless into the culture! really loved this talk!

My godness, this man domine many lenguages while I struggle just with learning english.That's amazing