Do You Get Stuck In English When Hearing Yourself?
June 17, 2008 by Robby
Filed under English Confidence
Hi Folks,
This time I’d like to tell you a strange thing from my own experience – and I must stress – it’s really weird!
It’s about getting confused while speaking English with someone – and you know why? Because I suddenly start hearing myself – my speech. And I instantly get knocked out of the normal speech rhythm and have to gather myself up.
Why is it happening? Why would hearing your own voice make you feel embarrassed to an extent when you start speaking with a really bad accent and get stuck?
I don’t know the exact answer – but many of you have sent me e-mails telling the very same thing…
Get Rid of Monkeys in Your Mind!
June 2, 2008 by Robby
Filed under English Confidence
Speech management and confident English go hand in hand with managing yourself and your thoughts.
Do you often have this feeling of a racing mind? Do you feel you have hundreds of different thoughts constantly crossing your mind, repeating all over again and making you anxious and irritated?
In Zen Buddhist philosophy such a state of mind is described as a room full of jumping and screaming monkeys running wild!
This state of mind is very closely related to all kinds of anxieties, worries, fears – and among them the English speech anxiety.
No matter how well you’re trying to speak English, you head is full of English words, phrases, sentences, grammar rules – all at the SAME TIME! You’re trying to say something – but regardless your toughest attempts you get the English grammar wrong, misspell and mispronounce words and notice this at the very moment of speaking them out!
To deal with this issue of inability to speak English normally you first have to deal with monkeys in your head. Here I’ve written a few basic steps to calm down your mind and start thinking just ONE THOUGHT at a time instead of trying to encompass EVERYTHING at once.
