You know the words. Then someone asks you something simple and your brain opens a translation counter. Hindi goes in one side, English comes out late and slightly damaged.
Translation is a habit, not a talent gap. Habits respond to drills. Here are the three I give every batch.
Every month a parent tells me they paid for a year of English classes and their child still will not open their mouth in class. The course was not necessarily bad. It was just never checked against the right questions.
Ask these five before you pay anyone, including us.
You do not need a tutor to start speaking better English. You need a mouth that moves in English every day. Most learners read plenty and speak almost never. That is the whole gap.
These four habits take about twenty minutes a day combined. They look too simple. Do them for two weeks before deciding they do not work.
In a meeting, "I disagree" is a fire alarm. English speakers almost never set it off. Instead we reach for softeners. Here are the five phrases from last week's Business English Sprint, ranked from gentle to firm.
