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Use Confidence And Mistakes To Improve Speaking
- Do practice speaking Mandarin aloud and accept mistakes as part of learning to build confidence quickly.
- Hosts recommend a ‘Billy Big Balls’ approach: pretend you’re confident, try speaking even if nervous, and learn from errors in real conversations.
Force Yourself To Perform In Class
- Do perform in front of others regularly because peers are unlikely to judge you harshly and will often empathize.
- Tom makes students speak each class and reminds them classmates worry about their own turn, not judging performers.
Join Structured Hangouts To Practice Speaking
- Do join structured Google Hangouts to practice introducing yourself using provided topics and sentence examples.
- Hosts run twice-weekly sessions with three sections plus Q&A and share examples with patrons for guided speaking practice.