Speak English Like an American: The Book of Communication Like a Native Speaker

"Speak English Like an American" by Amy Gillett might still be a relatively unknown book to many of us, but it offers a powerful method to help you speak English like a native speaker. Its clarity, thoroughness, and engaging style leave a lasting impression on readers. Let's dive deeper with PREP into the contents of this book and explore strategies for maximizing its effectiveness!

I. An Overview of Speak English Like an American

1. General information

The title of the book, Speak English Like an American, gives us a preliminary idea about the main theme of the book, which focuses on American expressions and conversational styles.

English is indeed the most widely used language in the world. Regardless of the country we visit, English serves as the common communication method. For example, a Japanese going to Spain will speak to native speakers in English.

“Speak English Like an American” will dig deep into American conversational styles with lots of idioms and unique expressions. Different from the common method, this book introduces a creative approach revolving around the stories of a character to help readers visualize the book.

2. Main parts of the book

Unlike other English speaking skill training books, this book is divided into five parts, with each part containing five lessons and a review lesson on previous topics. Students will be able to explore a variety of practical application-rich lessons, including:

• 300 most common idioms used in daily conversation and life are shared in a collection of books that can be found in publications such as books and magazines such as: keep one's chin up, live from hand to mouth, look on the bright side... Furthermore, students can easily find information about idioms, and collocations in the back index of the book. This helps summarize the accumulated knowledge and students can quickly memorize better.
• To integrate the lessons most naturally and help students visualize how to use idioms, and subjects, and apply them in life, author Amy Gillett designed lesson plans based on stories and dialogues. When reading and understanding the context of each story and discussion, students will easily understand why they use a particular phrase or sentence in that situation.
• In addition, there is an explanation and how to use vocabulary in that dialogue section that has been printed in bold so students can better understand. This has created a difference in the book "Speak English Like an American".
• Specifically, the 25 audio files Speak English Like An American will be standard American English retellings with 25 attached dialogue scripts to help learners maximize their pronunciation and speaking skills.
• In addition, the book also prepares practice exercises for readers to review and consolidate knowledge, and vocabulary, through which to grasp the skills and foundations that have been learned firmly.

3. Targeted learner

One wonderful thing about this book set is that it includes the Speak English Like an American CD to help students listen, memorize, and practice speaking as in the Audio version. In no time, pronunciation skills and the ability to understand conversations with foreigners are greatly improved. Therefore, the Speak English Like an American ebook is suitable for the following targets:

• Students who want to learn how to speak, pronounce, and use words in standard American English.
• Especially, if you want to immigrate or study in the United States, this book is truly necessary and versatile, as it can be quickly and easily applied in everyday life.
• Students who want to expand their vocabulary or simply speak fluently and naturally for the Speaking sections in TOEIC and IELTS tests. Basic verb phrases are also included in the text along with common idioms. In addition, students will be able to research and use interleaved phrases in the tests. Speak English like an American with CD

II. The pros & cons of Speak English like an American book

1. Pros

It is difficult to list all the advantages of Speak English like an American PDF book, but some of the main points that we can easily see after using the book are:

• Firstly, the book creates creativity in applying the story-weaving method, helping students easily memorize and practice systematically what they have learned.
• Next, what author Amy Gillett brought to English learners is the natural, diverse use of idioms and slang, with full explanations right after the sentences.
• Specifically, the dialogue sections are not only printed in the book but also accompanied by the full Speak English like an American CD with standard American English dialogues, helping to improve listening skills as well as communication and conversation skills.
• Finally, the clearly divided practice exercises allow us to review the knowledge in the book without fear of "learning but forgetting".

2. Cons

In addition to praiseworthy points, “Speak English like an American” still has room for improvement. However, the existing issues are relatively minor compared to the undeniable advantages of the book:

• The images are a bit large compared to the entire page, making it slightly difficult and time-consuming to flip through the necessary lessons. In addition, saving paper also helps protect the green-clean-beautiful environment.
• The font takes up too much space on the page, extending the file size.

III. How to use “Speak English like an American” effectively

To make the most of the knowledge provided in the book, students should immediately adopt an effective self-study method as follows:

• Study systematically according to each Unit. The book consists of 5 Units followed by exercises to practice knowledge and speaking skills so students can firmly grasp them, thereby forming the ability to communicate reflexively in similar situations.
• The shadowing method includes 6 steps
  • Step 1: Get familiar with the transcript.
  • Step 2: Practice Active Listening - listen to the audio voice.
  • Step 3: Practice listening, and pronunciation, and read the dialogue transcript slowly.
  • Step 4: Listen and speak along with the transcript at a standard pace like the audio.
  • Step 5: Practice listening and speaking slowly without the transcript.
  • Step 6: Practice listening and speaking at a standard pace like the audio without the transcript.
• Create your own glossary, then flexibly apply it in practice.
• Be diligent, dedicating time daily to practice speaking, communicating with friends, or self-practice to improve pronunciation and voice.

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