Why speaking practice matters

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hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

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vanessa calm let's talk about starting a

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conversation to improve your speaking

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skills in English you need to speak

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right

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practice the skills that you want to

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improve it's that easy well maybe it's

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not that easy hi hi what do I say next

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why is it he talking more oh no I don't

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know what to say you know what this has

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probably happened to you in your native

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language so it makes sense that in

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English it can be tough to start a

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conversation too but never fear

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Vanessa's tips are here in life there

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are two kinds of people people you know

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and people you don't know

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we call those strangers so it makes

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sense to have two different types of

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conversation starters of course there's

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some overlap but it's helpful to

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separate them let's start with people

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you know imagine that you're in the

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grocery store you're pushing your car

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looking for some spinach and you see

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your coworker and you want to say hi

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what can you say well here are four

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great questions that you can ask in that

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situation or that they might ask you so

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you need to understand them and how to

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respond the first two questions are

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about the past let's take a look