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Old May 26, 2010, 10:58 AM
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Need Help Learning to Speak Fluently

Hello everyone.

I need your help immediately.
I need to learn fast to speak the English, I mean, I need to speak verbally the language of oral way.

Because Accenture group is offering me a new job and well just they need that I speak the English very fluent the language.

The question is.
How I can learn to speak the language the English quickly or improve more my skills.

Please now yes I need your help.
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Old May 26, 2010, 10:17 PM
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Learning to speak fluent English takes time (many months). Befriend a native speaker who will correct your every flaw in spoken English, and be patient. There's no quick way to learn a language well.
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Old May 26, 2010, 11:59 PM
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Start using youtube a lot and start that MSN as soon as possible. There are plenty of people that would like to exchange conversation.
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Absolutely - frequent, ongoing conversations in English will enable you
to eliminate the tendency to translate directly from Spanish to English.

As you know, translating directly works some of the time, but often does not work well at all.
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Old May 27, 2010, 08:46 AM
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How would you translate "Royal Road" (βασιλικήν ατραπόν) into Spanish?
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Old May 27, 2010, 10:06 AM
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Absolutely - frequent, ongoing conversations in English will enable you
to eliminate the tendency to translate directly from Spanish to English.

As you know, translating directly works some of the time, but often does not work well at all.
It works all the time, and the more one uses it the better one gets with time.

I know what you mean though...


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How would you translate "Royal Road" (βασιλικήν ατραπόν) into Spanish?
Camino Real.
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Old May 27, 2010, 10:16 AM
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Is there any way that you can spend an extended time in an English speaking country?
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Old May 27, 2010, 10:19 AM
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Is there any way that you can spend an extended time in an English speaking country?
To me nowadays could well mean to spend more time online. :-)

I wish I could've had the facility that the internet affords people today, in my time.
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Have you tried watching English tv shows? I'd offer to speak to you over a microphone, but I wouldn't know what I'd say! I'm not opposed to doing that though.

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It works all the time, and the more one uses it the better one gets with time.

I know what you mean though...




Camino Real.
Good thing you told me this, as I would have said "calle." Real would have been easy though, because I would think of Royal Madrid.

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Old May 27, 2010, 12:57 PM
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To me nowadays could well mean to spend more time online. :-)

I wish I could've had the facility that the internet affords people today, in my time.
Except that "online" doesn't give me the opportunity to have a conversation. I can write in Spanish - I can read some in Spanish. But to have a conversation is something that I cannot do yet....
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