Lesson 3: You Can’t Learn to Speak English The Same Way You Learn History or Biology

 

Learning to speak English (or any language for that matter) is about understanding the flow of the language. There are a lot of elements in the English language that makes it function but also make it difficult to learn. English speakers need to get an intuitive feel how these components sync with each other. Things such as prepositions, figures of speech, and slang, are impossible to master by just memorizing theory. This is where learning to speak English becomes different from learning Biology or History. Theory becomes useless unless you have an intuitive understanding of the application. Practice is the key to improving Spoken English.

The theory of public speaking developed by scientists has certain advantages and disadvantages that will continue to be refined along with the development of knowledge, evaluation, and so on that scientists can do freely. Some of the advantages of existing public speaking theory include being able to describe the elements in public communication completely, being able to show things that need to be considered in order to carry out public communication, and so on. It's just that public speaking theory in general doesn't talk about how to do public speaking calmly, overcome nervousness, and so on and therefore a lot of research and observation can be done about how someone makes public communication interestingly, looks calm or mastery, and so on.