Speaking


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Speaking is an interactive skill, which involves listening and speaking. To develop it, it is necessary to be exposed to the spoken language and practice it as much as possible. Besides, it is important to develop speaking skills to be able to communicate orally with other people, since it is the most common way to talk in real life situations.

Here is a list of websites to improve speaking skill in the English language:

It is a website to improve English and communicative skills. It is suitable for all ages at any level (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1), and it will allow learners to practice their speaking through listenings about real-life conversations, which they will have to repeat. Learners can choose the speed of each audio, normal or slow, and look for the transcription if the audio is not understandable for them.

This website allows users to exchange their language to the one they want to learn, practice and improve to achieve fluency with native speakers. It is suitable for adults aged 18 and up at any level. Users can talk synchronously or asynchronously, by sending voice messages or having video calls to improve their speaking skills.

 

This is a website designed to provide a complete self-study environment for language learners. It is suitable for all ages and is developed using the CEFR, ranging from complete beginner (A1) to complete fluency (B2). Each lesson is focused on a particular communicative focus (introducing yourself, describing your hometown, or ordering food in a restaurant). Lessons include vocabulary and grammar lessons with audio, translation and multiple-choice exercises for learners to develop speaking, not only through repetition but also through recordings to learn vocabulary and grammar in context.

This is a language practice community in which users aged 17 and up can talk with people from around the world to improve their speaking skills through practice. Each person from the community informs their level of English and his/her interests, so users can talk about what they want according to their level.


It is a website suitable for all ages at any level to start learning, practicing and improving a foreign language, like English. It allows learners to build and discover the foreign language without focusing on rules, because of its implicit learning.  Every lesson is based on real life situations, so learners can learn about useful vocabulary and grammar to use while talking to someone. Also, it allows learners to record their voice to check their pronunciation and intonation when repeating short phrases, and receive feedback to improve them.

5 comments:

  1. Mauricio SánchezJuly 14, 2020 at 8:31 AM

    Dear classmates, the list of websites that you have posted on this blog to practice the speaking skill are very useful. Despite the fact that every single one is a good option to practice this productive skill, I have to tell you that I find Free4talk as the most useful website. The reason why I have chosen this web resource is that it allows you to interact with people around the world. In this way you can listen a wide range of English accents. Each chat specifies the English level that people require to enter and start speaking with other people. I just need to sign up with me google account and I will be able to join, and start practicing my speaking skill.

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  2. Andres MorenoJuly 16, 2020 at 10:10 AM

    All websites are very useful for developing speaking skills, but the website that I liked the most and the one that I consider important is Free4Talk. This is a community of language practice, you can talk to people from all over the world and I find it very useful since you can have real-time conversations with people from other countries.

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  3. Magaly CrespoJuly 16, 2020 at 3:11 PM

    Hello classmates, for me, all these five websites are practical to develop speaking skills, but the most useful is Free4Talk. I reviewed its content, and it is according to the description that you gave it. Free4Talk allows students to have conversations with different people taking into account our level and interests. However, to use this website, it is necessary to register. Despite this, I think this website will help students develop speaking skills with real conversations.

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  4. Daniel CernaJuly 17, 2020 at 5:10 AM

    Hello partners, I have reviewed the 5 speaking websites that you have included in your blog, I think that all the information and websites that you have posted are very useful to practice our speaking skills. The one I liked the most is "My Language Exchange" because it allows students to talk or interact with native speakers and other people around the world, which is very interesting because we also could help them. Additionally, it is important to mention that we can use this website to have a real-time conversation by having a video call, or asynchronously by sending voice messages.

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  5. Estefanía BarragánJuly 17, 2020 at 7:47 PM

    I totally agree with the comments of some partners who wrote that free4talk seemed to be one of the best websites to practice speaking of the 5 that are there. I was exploring and reviewing the website and I found it very useful. I had the opportunity to talk with an English professor from Egypt who provided me with English resources. First, I registered and once I did it, I was able to join to real time conversations divided into levels.

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