| If you think that you can speak fluently only | | | | organized. |
| when you have a good vocabulary, you are | | | | If the editor inside your mind works well, you can |
| wrong! | | | | speak easily, effectively and fluently. |
| You know well that when a good speaker or a | | | | Most of us do not know what to say. At a job |
| good story teller begins, everyone falls silent. | | | | interview, we fumble not for words but for ideas. |
| Everyone knows that he or she will surely be | | | | To a question such as Tell us about yourself, we |
| entertained and informed. A good story teller or a | | | | do not know where to begin. |
| good speaker is a fluent speaker. | | | | Should I begin from the day I was born? |
| Many people carry a wrong notion that fluency | | | | Should I speak about my parents? |
| lies only in the vocabulary that the speaker has. | | | | Should I speak about the subjects I opted for my |
| They think that larger the vocabulary, the more | | | | masters'? |
| fluent the speaker is. | | | | Should I speak about the project that I worked |
| Fluency is connected more to the way you think | | | | on? |
| than to the words you know. There are good | | | | ...I do not know where to begin! |
| speakers who do operate with a limited range of | | | | More than ideas or pieces of information, feelings |
| words. The clearer you think, the more fluent you | | | | and emotions are difficult to express. These do |
| are in speaking. The word fluency comes from | | | | not lend themselves to easy organization. By their |
| Latin fluere which means to flow. | | | | very nature, they are unpredictable. |
| When you speak do ideas flow? Does information | | | | Words, phrases and patterns are tools that |
| flow? Do the emotions and feelings get translated | | | | anyone can learn to master. But, to organize |
| into language in one good flow? | | | | ideas, information, feelings and perspectives in |
| If you use fillers such as You know.., I mean..., er.., | | | | language requires clear and logical thinking. Above |
| erm.., your ideas or information is not flowing | | | | all, it requires a certain awareness of what is |
| evenly or even properly. That means your | | | | happening inside your mind. |
| thoughts are either unorganized or disorganized; | | | | Fluency is, then, a product of mind. |
| your thoughts are chaotic or not properly | | | | |