- Watch English movies and listen to English songs. - Read English books out loud to gain confidence and improve your pronunciation. - Use a good dictionary to boost your vocabulary and improve your pronunciation. - Find native English speaking friends to communicate with them (chat, email, etc.) - Listen to native speakers as much as possible (English TV, English songs, audio books, English podcasts, etc)

Practice practice practice! Reading and writing is one thing, but you must listen and speak the language to learn it. Have you considered studying abroad?

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Hi Wade, practice is the key to success. Here are some tips for you Here are the Italki English/ Chinese speakers. Email some of them and invite them to be your friend or language partner. Set up a time to chat on skype. Remember the time differences between countries, If there is a green light next to a person's name, it means that they are on line. Good luck! Click on here: http://www.italki.com/partners/1-Chinese-English200-00-0.htm There is a free online talking dictionary of English pronunciation. Just click over the pink words to hear them spoken at www.howjsay.com/index.php?word. Here is a free online translation service: http://free-translator.imtranslator.net http://www.taisha.org/ is recommended by other Italki members There are many Italki groups for learning English. Here is the group for Mandarin speakers learning Chinese http://www.italki.com/groups/165 Italki member Courtney recommends this voice chat study group for learning English 我看见有一个可以skype聊天的group,但是没什么人去，最好还是在语言伙伴里找人，然后加他再语音吧，祝你好运 Also for Chinese speakers learning English have a look at Quick Speaker which may be useful 还在为去国外旅游无法独自开口表达而烦恼吗? 有了 QuickSpeaker 这一切将变得轻松简单! QuickSpeaker 根据在外国旅游或生活中常遇到的不同场景，分为20大类，超过3000条日常用句，每条句子都包含专业的翻译及纯正的英语发音，通过您的手机,让您真正做到随用随学，沟通随时随地

i was like you but once i thought to record my voice and listen to my own pronunciation , that helped me a lot to improve my speaking also , when i began to speak (with my friends at my university and my work ) many of them corrected me ,,,, and it was the best way that i could improved my speaking skills and don't worry no one will judge you ... they will help you to learn better ^_^ GOOD LUCK ^_^