How to Feel More CONFIDENCE When Speaking English

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How to feel more confidence when speaking English.

Feel more confidence when speaking English. This is important in many situations.

You have an English speaking test coming. You're very nervous.

Might be the OET, might be TOEFL, might be IELTS, maybe something else.

and if you don't speak confidently you might fail

or you have a job interview a job opportunity in English

but for this job, this better job you want you have to do a job interview in English

again, you're probably going to feel very nervous and what happens when you feel nervous

your speaking ability actually drops, right? You know this, right? So you need to feel confident.

When you feel confident, the words come out more easily.

Whatever your level, you'll speak better when you feel confident.

And you'll speak worse when you're feeling nervous, not confident.

Right? So very important. Presentations, job interviews,

English speaking tests even sometimes just talking to a native speaker

might or just a business meeting in English

all these things can make people feel nervous and then you

think well I know more English but I can't seem to use it every time I try to speak I don't feel confident and of course you need confidence just for good communication even in your own language

more confidence means better communication People will listen to you more. They respect you more.

They'll actually listen to your ideas. You'll be more persuasive if you're trying to get people to do something.

You're more likely to succeed when you are communicating confidently.

So how? This is the question, right? We all know this. Everybody knows that confidence is important.

but the question is, well, I don't feel confident, so how can I do it? How do I change my feelings?

I feel nervous. I feel afraid. I just feel like I'm not very good.

You know, you have all these negative feelings, and you want to feel confident. You're like, ah, I should feel confident. I should feel confident.

But you don't. You want to, but you don't. How do you change that? I have two methods.

There's an instant method and there's a long-term method.

The instant method, some people call it fake it till you make it, which is a nice little idiom.

Fake it until you make it. Fake it means pretend until you make it, until you succeed. Pretend until you succeed.

It's actually a little more than pretending, but it is using the instant method,

meaning right now, immediately, the instant method is powerful. It works. It will help you a lot.

And it's using actually a lot of techniques that come from NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, and also that actors use, professional actors, movie actors, stage actors,

quite similar the way they can do a great job of pretending, right?

So you might have, for example, an actor who's actually kind of weak and, you know, not tough at all in real life, right?

But, you know, in front of the camera, they can play like a super tough gangster and they seem so confident and strong, maybe even mean and terrible, right?

Maybe they're playing a bad guy. And, yeah, you know, everybody watching thinks, oh, wow, this guy, this guy is so scary, so tough.

But in real life, actually not, right? So what is the actor doing? And women do this too. So actor, actress, what are they doing?

They are, you know, using different techniques to appear.

They appear to be super confident, super tough, super strong, right?

And, of course, this is their job as actors. to be really good at that and not just confidence.