Welcome to my guide to having delightful English conversations.
A good conversation feels great, right?
Especially when it’s in a language you are learning.
But a bad one…ooft! They can live in your head for days. Or even years.
This guide is for you if:
You have had precisely 0 English conversations.
You have had more than 0 English conversations, maybe a lot, but you still feel frustrated with your speaking ability.
You had a bad, embarrassing conversation recently so you decided to lock yourself in your bedroom and change your life plan to ‘hermit’, but you have been in there for weeks now and there is no food left in the house. Five generations of mice have already lived and died in your living room and the neighbourhood children believe you are a ghost, so you think it’s maybe time to come out and face the world again.
Which one are you?
Over the following series of articles I aim to take you from a timid tourist in the land of English conversation to a confident explorer.
Everything you read in this guide is based on applied linguistics and social science research, my personal observations from 2 decades of language learning, and thousands of hours in conversation with English learners just like you.
I’m excited to share these tips with you.
Some will be familiar (but you forget them under pressure or without practice). Others may be brand new and exactly what you need right now.
Ready to begin your quest traveller?
Start here.