0You can acquire fluency in English faster if you start using lexical chunks (Words group used in a particular context of speech). Further, you can use lexical chunks instantly and without thinking or much effort.
E.g. Would you like to?
Got it?
You had better
Always don’t try to learn the meaning of a word from a dictionary, learn the usage of the word in spoken English.
E.g. Take
- Take the call (= Attend to the phone call)
- Take your seat (= Sit on the chair)
- Take it easy (= Feel comfortable)
Learning collocations, Phrasal verbs, Idioms, Social formulas, fixed phrases, Discourse markers will boost your English fluency in a very short period.
- Collocations (words that commonly used together or the right combination of words such as:
- Densely populated
- Top secret
- Well prepared
- Take the call
- Take your seat etc.
- strong winds
- heavy rains
- Say tummy ache not tummy pain,
- Say stomach ache not stomach pain,
- Say fast food, not quick food.
- Phrasal Verbs
- such as:
- Put up with
- Run out of
- Backed off
- Put through
- Idioms
- Part and parcel
- Make ends meet
4. Social Formulas
- such as:
- See you later
- Have a nice day
- How do you do?
- Good luck
- Fixed phrases, Such as :
- If I were you
- I was wondering
- As a matter of fact
- Would you mind if
- As far as I know
- On the other hand
- In the meantime
- In my opinion
NOTE: Idiomatic expressions consist of fixed word order we cannot change the word order.
- Discourse markers or connectors: These are the words or phrases that link what has been said before to what comes next. Such as:
- Moreover
- In addition to
- Finally
- However
- Nevertheless
- Nonetheless
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