Standing on a stage. Having the courage to talk in front of people.
Sounds simple, right? But I’m sure that not all of us can do that. Especially when they are require to speak in English language. The key formula is only one thing.
CONFIDENCE.

I always admiring people who really confident in whatever they speak in front of people. For sure, they can drive out the positive vibes to the people who listening to them. How comes they can be too confident? How they overcome all that adrenaline rush in their body? I keep wondering and wondering.

Until one day, my English teacher asked me to participate in a competition that required me to fully speak in English. What??? Am I will be able to do well? What happens if I make mistakes? I’m sure both of my leg will shiver and my heart will pounding fast as it want to pop out from my body at that time. Hahahaha. Such a low self-esteem person I am. From that time, I had learned to become more confident especially to speak in English. So for this entry, I will share with you guys 10 tips on how to be confident to speak in English.
Let start now!

1. MAKE FRIENDS WITH ENGLISH SPEAKER PEOPLE
When we make friends with people who speak English fluently, indirectly we can learn from them to speak by listening to the way how the pronounce a word and also the way they arrange the sentences. They also can help us by correcting our mistakes and of course there will be improvement from time to time.

2. PRACTICE AND PREPARE
‘Practice makes perfect’. Try to practice to speak English each and every day. We can practice in front of mirror (self-practice) or maybe find a partner to practice together. This will make you become used to be to speak in English.

3. SPEAK OUT LOUD
This way had helped me a lot. I used to buy English novel and read it out loud. Imagining that I speak in front of hundreds of people at that time. Sometimes I felt like a crazy people talking to myself but it was undeniably had effectively helped me.

4. CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE
We need to wash away the negative perception of our peoples. Neglect what other people will say. Just go on, make the negative perception as a challenge to become more high spirit and do your best to speak English.

5. RECORD YOURSELF
Record your voice speaking in English and play it again after record it. This may help you to make improvement from time to time. By this way, you can recognise what is your mistakes or maybe your inappropriate speaking tones and change it to be more better.

6. WATCH ENGLISH MOVIES WITHOUT SUBTITLE
This will be quiet challenging to you at first. (so do I actually,hahaha). When watching English movies without subtitle, you will try your best to hear carefully their words in order to understand it. Of course you will not want the excitement of the movies slip away right?

7. CONFIDENT TO START A CONVERSATION
Build up your confident to start a conversation with your friends in your daily life. It will work best if you can find friends that use English as their mother tongue language.

8. NEVER AFRAID TO MAKE MISTAKES
It is okay if you make a lot of mistakes. Making mistake is one of a learning process. Maybe by doing mistakes, you will remember it well and not repeat the same mistakes again.

9. EXPERIMENT WITH NEW WORDS EVERYDAY
Try out to build different kinds of sentences each and every day. Don’t afraid to experiment with new words and also new style of words arrangement. This will help you a lot to grab the audience’s attention when you master in this.

10. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
Just believe that no matter how hard to acquire a language is, there’s must be a way for you. If other people can speak that language confidently, so do you. Just believe in yourself.

                             So, that’s all for now. I hope you guys will make use of all that tips well. 

Never give up in learning English because once you master it, I’m sure you will love it.

Keep it up and good luck!