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Let's talk about how to speak English without constant stress and constant discomfort.
• Put aside shame and do what interests you. You know better than others what you can consider your hobby, so devote time to it. Discussion of books, series, games and even culinary inventions - for this there have long been discussion clubs in your city, if not face-to-face, then at least online such as English online at Englishdom. And their visitors are not colleagues who may look askance at you for your mistakes, but busy people who are interested in their results, not someone else's assessment.
• Everyone has their favorite movies, which they have watched more than once and know so literally, almost by lines. Download the series with the original soundtrack at home, choose your character and pause the playback where he appears, voicing a line for him. The films use everyday English, you will immediately see the difference in sentence construction and learn many everyday expressions.
• As a variation of the previous tip, first watch the tape with subtitles and write down the successful phrases and expressions.
• If your work is related to technical or just customer support, if you have the opportunity to speak with the customer in English, do not ignore it, preferring instead to write a quick business letter. Think about what you want to say in advance and arm yourself with a phone, not a keyboard.
• Get used to really thinking in English. At first, by linear translation of the thought that came to mind, then by replacing specific words and phrases, but gradually push your native language out of the "automatic" category, otherwise you will not achieve the result.
• Immersion in the language environment is the fastest and most guaranteed way to get you out of your comfort zone and make you communicate in English. If there is an exchange student program, an option with a business trip to an English-speaking country, or at least an understanding boss who is ready to put you to permanent work with a foreign customer, take advantage of it.
• Dare. The only thing that can and will stop you on this path is your own insecurity and your own laziness, because the brain is more used to expressing an opinion in its native language without making much effort than thinking about how to construct this or that phrase. Laziness can only be fought with willpower, and the more transparent the goal you are going towards, as well as the understanding of why you will need English in the future, the easier it is to overcome such inertia. And you should immediately say a resolute "no" to uncertainty. No person is born with the ability to speak English. It's just that once it became personally necessary for him to learn a foreign language. And he mastered it.
