No confidence!!!?

Question

My English is so far so good. Means average in writing and speaking. But I’m really fried to use English. My mother tough is Malayalam. Other than Malayalam, I know Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Urdu and Arabic. All these are not so fluent even though I’m using it, where it necessary. But in the case of English always looses confidence. What is the reason? How can I over come from this situation.

Answer 1

Talk more, write more, read more, listen more.

Practice makes perfect, and the more you do it, the more confidence you will build up.

Find an English friend(s) online or in real life and try communicate with them regularly.

Answer 2

Ajit,

There is no shorty-cut way to improve your English, other than reading a lot.

You can subscribe "Indian Express" news paper instead of vernacular daily. It is also imperative that you read vernacular daily and then English daily. Most of the news items are quoted from same sources (like PTI), the sentence in all dailies will be more or less same. Say whatever is appearing in Manorama or Mathrubhumi will be reproduced in Indian express also.

Continuous reading of English daily will improve your English and you will slowly but surely start speaking flawless English. Even if you have a 1000 word power, you can use English language efficiently. The more word power you get, the better it is. Grammer etc will fall in place automatically. Try to learn at least five new words daily. Even if you remember only two of them, in a month's time, you can increase your word power by 60 words, which will be a great achievement. Over a period of time, you will be able to MASTER this language, no doubt on that.


Babu

Answer 3

Practice speaking in front of the mirror to get more comfortable with your body and words when speaking. It helps me a lot when having to give a speech or presentation.
You probably are self-concious when speaking in English because you may talk slower than other fluent speakers; there is also the worry of speaking correctly.
I felt the same way when in France last summer. I can speak French, but it isn't fluent yet, so I felt a little self-concious. But it's normal and with more practice, you'll get over it.

Answer 4

The best solution is register in a school for english,try and make more friends who speak english also read and chat with people on the internet and read more of english books

Answer 5

The English language is the hardest language to learn. One of the Popes who could speak 12 languages could not master English. You are not alone in trying to learn it.

Answer 6

speak to English native speaker as much as you can..choose people you don't even know..cause maybe you are afraid of making fault in front of relative, friends or people you know, so practice more and more and more..go to malls ,shopping center or any other places fulled with people..i suggest also to find hobby or thing that you like then seek for people share you the same thing so you'll definitely have many conversation together..
when ever you talk say to your self "English is not my native language so it's ok if i make mistake..am not gonna die"

Answer 7

Dont worry.. you are having trouble because English is one of the hardest languages to learn... just read some of the phrases in this link

Then you will realize just how difficult it is

Answer 8

Be around people who speak english..

Answer 9

Practice makes perfect - Speak it more often and don't worry about doing so . It will take time to get proficient at it .

Answer 10

look, listen,learn, practise.just mingle with people who speak english, and make effort to speak in english as well.