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September 17, 2015

5 Ways To Improve Your Filipino Speaking Skills

5 Ways To Improve Your Filipino Speaking Skills

Speaking is usually the #1 weakness for all Filipino learners. This is a common issue among language
learners everywhere. The reason for this is obvious: When language learners first start learning a
language, they usually start with reading. They read online articles, books, information on apps and so
on. If they take a class, they spend 20% of their time repeating words, and 80% of the time reading the
textbook, doing homework or just listening to a teacher. So, if you spend most of your time reading
instead of speaking, you might get better at reading but your speaking skills never grow. You get better at
what you focus on.

So if you want to improve you speaking skills, you need to spend more of your study time on speaking.
Here are five tips to help you get started:

1. Read out loud

If you’re listening to a lesson and reading along, read out loud. Then re-read and speed up your tempo.
Do this again and again until you can speak faster. Try your best to pronounce the words correctly, but
don’t obsess about it. Read swiftly, emote and put some inflection on the sentences. Reading aloud
helps to train the muscles of your mouth and diaphragm to produce unfamiliar words and sounds.

Read out loud!

2. Prepare things to say ahead of time.

As you may know from experience, most learners run out of things to say. But, if you prepare lines ahead
of time, you won’t be at a loss for words in conversations. This will help you not only to learn how to say
the words, but how to say them in the right context. A good way to prepare yourself before
conversations is with our Top 25 Questions Series, which teaches you how to ask the most common
conversational questions, and how to answer them, in Filipino:

Click here to learn the top 25 Filipino questions you need to know.

3. Use shadowing (repeat the dialogues as you hear them).

Shadowing is an extremely useful tool for increasing fluency as well as improving your accent and ability
to be understood. Shadowing helps create all the neural connections in your brain to produce those
words and sentences quickly and accurately without having to think about it. Also, as mentioned in tip
#1, shadowing helps develop the muscle memory in all the physical parts responsible for the production
of those sounds. Depending on what your primary and target languages are, it’s quite likely that there
are a lot of sounds your mouth just isn’t used to producing. Shadowing can be done, for example, when
watching TV shows or movies or listening to music.

Each one of our lessons begins with a dialogue. Try to shadow the conversation line by line, and you’ll be
mastering it in no time.

Click here to for a FREE taste of our Absolute Beginner series!

4. Review again and again.

This is the key to perfection, and we can’t emphasize it enough. Most learners don’t review! If you
review and repeat lines again and again, you’ll be speaking better, faster and with more confidence.

Review again and again

5. DON’T BE AFRAID TO MAKE MISTAKES!

You’d be surprised by how many people try to avoid talking! The more you speak, the faster you learn –
and that is why you’re learning Filipino. Practice speaking every chance you get: whether it’s ordering
coffee, shopping or asking for directions.

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