How's it going folks? This morning, I did talk to myself in English as usual. And, this kinda ditty is just the things that I talked about. I haven't modified or fabricated anything at all. Anyway, let me type exactly the things that I mentioned when it comes to 5 additional steps to boosting English speaking skills.
First up, you prepare your laptop or smartphone's incam for recording your face and voice. Although this task can be harder when you are outside, it's not gonna be difficult when you are at home. Shooting a video is one of the best ways for your self-analysis. I'm sure that you will get used to it as you continue to do so as a routine work. To self-analyse your performance in a more rigorous way, it's better to use a good external microphone instead of replying upon incam's internal speakers, simply because the better quality the microphone has, the more precise self-analysis you could do.
Next up, you prepare a website for embarking on your impromptu or improvisation much more easily and smoothly without having difficulty in coming up with a topic or content. Today, there are a myriod of websites out there, right? Such websites are readily available or up for grabs on the Internet. In doing so, you will definitely feel relieved. You don't have to improvise the things you are gonna say. Using a website makes your self-talk so much easier. And, it's gonna be more effective for sure.
Then, you prepare Chrome Browser (https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html) for checking your pronunciation. This website is extremely useful for those who are still worried about pronunciation. This can dictate your sentences as you speak, which, by the way, won't really function sometimes due to the Internet connection. So, please make sure that this works perfectly before starting talking, ok?
Immediately after you've finished talking to yourself, you start self-analysing based on the results of Chrome Browser and recorded videos. First, you just go through the video, and then re-watching it but at the same time you try to dictate the sentences as you hear, which essentially tests the accuracy of your pronunciation and grammar knowledge. Hopefully they won't be too wonky, but yes sometimes they will be, partly because you've been nervous in front of the camera and chrome browser, right? That's totally fine mate. Everyone goes through this kinda experience in the course of learning. Indeed, you can hardly rely upon everything based on AIs, but nevertheless they should be more precise than you might have anticipated.
Last up, you re-try talking to yourself saying exactly the same sentences as you've done. But they have to be corrected grammatically, and also you should check correct pronunciations if you've mispronounced.
All in all, despite you being obliged to do the aforementioned tedious tasks as a means of boosting speaking skills, I'm sure you're gonna feel alright as you continue to do so. Continuation is the conrnerstone of learning anything, but putting a littel bit more effort to do some extra tasks is gonna be awesome!! Chao.