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​ How to be confident when you are speaking?


Confidence in speaking- calm and focused speech without the fear of sudden stops or hesitations. Being able to look straight at people's eyes and speaking smoothly without losing the ideas.

How to practice confidence - the main reason why people are not confident enough to speak is because they haven't spoken in front of people a lot. That means the more you speak with people and look in them in the eye, the chances are you will highly likely get better and better.

Find a partner in your study center and work with her/him on a regular basis. With this person you don't necessarily have to speak or discuss IELTS questions but speak about anything and everything. Joke, laugh and simply live in English.( personally did it and benefited big time)

Ask your parents to spare some time for you so that you will practice speaking looking in people's eyes.

Start video taping yourself and see what aspects of your speaking should be fixed and improved. It can be the use of hand gestures or facial expressions or pronunciation of some certain words.

Prepare speech and present it to your family and classmates. Do extensive research before giving the talk!

Watch some toast masters or ted speakers and imitate them. Watch them here

Talk in front a mirror and visualize people. Be as creative and emotional as possible. Simply don't be a robot!


~Confidence is just like a muscle the more you practice it, the more it grows and gets better and stronger

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