How can I improve my English communication? and communication indeed?

Is it a matter of improving your English communication abilities? Or your conversational skills? Do you think you are not witty or sophisticated enough for those group conversations? Or do you think you just dont know how to participate?

Possibly it could be the topic of discussion. If you are not interested in it then of course you’re going to remain somewhat quiet throughout the conversation.

If you have problems with listening to the conversation and understanding the information quickly enough to participate: get extra practice listening to spoken English – watch movies or television shows, listen to the radio, go to a populated area and listen to other people talk.

If you have problems with translating your thoughts to English and speaking quickly enough to participate: Spend more time in one-on-one conversations, and try to study vocabulary so that you know more words, therefore becoming more fit to converse.

I can understand that it would be hard to participate in conversations with youthful English-speakers, because we speak very quickly and with a lot of slang phrases that we are familiar with.

And read. Read a lot. Watch as much of the main news programs as possible, as they use standard English. I know that outside of the US, most people taught English have been taught British English, so depending on what you feel would benefit you more, you could read mostly British books and watch British TV or American books and TV.

get a penpal who speaks english natively and practice with them.

Try this, for reading and listening to English – which will boost your vocabulary, pronunication and as a result your confidence, too

Try this

http://www.tutorvista.com

It’s a great company in India. Some of my colleagues at work here in Germany did this and they find it useful.

When it comes to written language I try to systematically check my sentence structures against Google results but I can’t seem to stick to it in the long run because it’s so fastidious It takes me long enough to post a comment (and I only post one in 10 that I write). But if you can keep to it, it’s a good idea to try different combinations and see which ones have the most results, and more importantly which ones show no result or less than a hundred.

One thing I’ve come to understand recently though is that you should always try to shorten your sentences as much as possible until you can’t cut them down without losing the essential information.

When it comes to speaking a foreign language, I think the most efficient learning methods allow you to listen to a native speaker, then record your voice while you repeat his words, and then listen to your own voice so you get used to your foreign voice.

Of course, watching lots of tv and using the net’s resources, like audio/video conference to communicate on a regular basis with native speakers are great to be more familiar with the language’s rhythm.

Thank you very much!

Take a public speaking class. It will help to improve your confidence speaking with others both in groups and even one on one. For someone that is quiet and reserved it will bring you out of your shell.