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Like babies, we learn this skill by listening to people who already know how to
speak the language. This may or may not include native speakers. For practice, one
can listen to live or recorded voices. The most important thing is to listen to a variety of
voices as often as one can.
To become a fluent speaker in English, learners need to develop strong listening
skills. Listening not only helps to understand what people are saying, it also helps to
speak clearly to other people. It helps in learning how to pronounce words properly, how
to use intonation, and where to place stress in words and sentences. This makes
speech easier for other people to understand.
"Reading" is the process of looking at a series of written symbols and getting
meaning from them. When we read, we use our eyes to receive written symbols (letters,
punctuation marks and spaces) and we use our brain to convert them into words,
sentences and paragraphs that communicate something to us.
Reading can be silent (in our head) or aloud (so that other people can
hear).Reading is a receptive skill - through which we receive information. But the
complex process of reading also requires the skill of speaking, so that we can
pronounce the words that we read. In this sense, reading is also a productive skill in that
we are both receiving information and transmitting it (even if only to ourselves).
Do we need to read in order to speak English? The short answer is no. Some
native speakers cannot read or write but they speak English fluently. On the other hand,
reading is something that one can do on his own and that greatly broadens his
vocabulary, thus helping him in speaking (and in listening and writing). Reading is
therefore a highly valuable skill and activity, and it is recommended that English
learners try to read as much as possible in English.
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