Sentence examples for practising speaking from inspiring English sources

"They would tell us they were practising speaking Geordie in the playground".

"I started by memorising 30 to 40 words each day and practised speaking, writing, because it wasn't easy.

Each exercise teaches you new words and grammar patterns by having you practise speaking, translating with fill-in-the-blank or writing, and transcribing from listening.

Small confusions aside, I feel at home in this charming old house and enjoy having an extra opportunity to practise speaking French with the family.

Personal stresses led her to lay it aside (or "bin the Boyne", as she puts it), but she had already started learning Irish for the project (she was going to practise speaking it with her novelist friend Edna O'Brien).

Prague is expensive, but in any expensive city head to the university quarter, where you'll find cheaper food and drink and generally people who want to practise speaking English.

It's useful to record yourself when you practise speaking English.

If you can, the best way is of course to practise speaking with a real French person.

At Jenny Dowling's modern languages class at Edinburgh's Gracemount High School, a group of students are using the must-have technology - the iPod - to record and practise speaking assessments and to interview their classmates about things like hobbies and holiday trips.

It's far more effective to join a conversation class and practise speaking every week than to practise for hours in front of the mirror the night before your oral exam!

Like most state schools in the 90s, mine in Grantham, Lincolnshire provided few chances to practise public speaking.