Improving Conversational English To Tagalog Speakers

By Peter Wilson


There are people that knows many languages and they are able to use these as an asset in their chosen profession. Others use this as a means to add another source of income by doing part time work as a translator or language teacher. When traveling to a place that they already know the language of, they would not have any difficulties in communicating with the people there.

Having knowledge in that language does not mean that you are good in conversing with others. The conversational English to Tagalog speakers have some differences when speaking to native speakers that can confuse them. Here are some study guides in helping you improve your conversational skills.

Learn a lot of different words that can be used in daily conversations. This will help expand your vocabulary and will help you convey what you really mean properly. There are some basic words that are used by native speakers that are not commonly used by non native speakers so try to find out which one and take note of them.

Some words are also used differently by Filipinos and could be not the proper way of saying what you really mean. When these are used with other Filipinos, the meaning could be understood by them but when spoken at other English speakers may mean different. Identify these words or phrases and replace it with the proper corresponding words that must be used instead.

Study the proper pronunciation by practicing it in front of a mirror. An exercise like this will help you in familiarizing the proper way of saying that word and try to use it in a sentence as well to understand its meaning better. Think and act out possible scenarios that these words may be used as well.

Meet and make friends with native speakers so that you can practice what you learned in actual conversations. Doing this will not only give you a chance of meeting new people but will also sharpen your skills in conversing on actual settings. You may also be able to learn new words which they will use when conversing with you.

It is important to improve your skill because you can use it in different situations and will help in opening up more opportunities. Your confidence will be boosted in speaking with others because you are now able to correctly express yourself. This a big help if you are in school still specially when presenting a report in the class.

Possible promotions and growth in your career may be made available due to this. This is an advantage that you can use when talking with your fellow employees and to those in higher positions in the company you are working at. When you are tasked to present a report, you will now have more confidence and the task will be easier for you to do and will impress those who will be listening. This is specially useful when a lot of employees or even the owners are foreigners.

This is also great if your work requires you to speak English every day, for example if you are a customer service agent in a business process outsourcing industry. This will greatly help you in understanding the concerns of the customers and being able to give the proper solutions of their concerns. There may be also job opportunities abroad that may open up because of your improved conversational skills.




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