Daily English conversation practice is very important to give a person fluency and confidence in the language. One successful way is engaging in at least 15 to 30 minutes of conversation per day. Repetitive points reinforce them naturally consolidating new vocabulary and phrases. This is backed up through a variety of language learning so doing it with someone on the regular can get you holding onto more words by even 60%, one of the most efficient ways to learn, according to some linguistic acquisition records.
Another great strategy is to make language exchange the rule rather than an exception in your life. With a language exchange you pair up with someone who speaks English as their mother tongue and wants to learn your native language. This is called tandem speaking and it benefits both the partners as they can speak in a real environment. You can use platforms like Tandem or HelloTalk to make these exchanges which provides a way talk with native speakers from around the world. While only practicing speaking with a native speaker over regular conversation, it can help the learner to feel comfortable in proper pronunciation as well cultural awareness and societal languaging which one has no idea of learning academically.
Another way to make your daily practice more effective is by having specific goals as well. So, for example learning and using five different vocabulary words in conversation each day would improve your language profiency on step 2. By learning 5 new words a day this way, over the course of one month you would be introduced to about 150 new words which clearly is going to immensely improve your conversational skills. In addition to that, by repeating these new words in different contexts you are able the meanings create stronger connections so when recall them during an actual conversation they will sound more natural than before.
Curiously, many also spent hours each day working side by side with their English media counterparts so that daily conversation was yet another way in which to train. Regular listening to English news, watching movies or TV series in the language will help you with accents, dialects and colloquial expressions which further improve your phonetic hearing. For example, making a daily habit to watch 30mn news in English is sufficient for you to get acquanted with the current events and use into discussions. This is not only a way to understand more of the language, but it also helps you have things to talk about (similarly in other languages) and your conversations can get richer and interesting.
Involve yourself in a conversation group, this could be something online or face to face and it provides an organized setting for you to speak English. These groups tend to have set themes or activities (e.g., reading books, watching movies, and/or analyzing current events) which can keep the conversation more structured. In a survey conducted by the British Council, 75% of language learners said that after meeting with conversation groups for only three months their speaking abilities had improved considerably. These groups offer a safe environment for practice (mistake-free zone) that allows learners to speak more often, gain confidence and slowly acquire an ability to function in the language.
Another practical way would be to use language learning apps which focus on speaking practice. Similarly, apps like Duolingo incorporate spoken exercises and often provide immediate feedback on pronunciation and fluency; Babbel can be set to speak out text or repeat what you hear in Spanish. So, for example, on iTalki it is a paid service where we make individual payments to professional teachers and conduct the practice one-on-one specifically according to your targeted language ability or goal. This personalised style also helps in ensuring that the practice undertaken is time-efficient as well effective.
Or in the words of Nelson Mandela, "If you speak to a man in his language that goes above and beyond it." Speak to a man in his tongue and that is the way how you will touch his heart." We know that daily conversation is a part of speaking English, which leads to improving your language skills and meeting new people for better bonding and communication.
People who want to develop their language skills need most of all a daily English conversation. Another way to be familiar with English is through real-world conversation whether it is engaging the media, language exchange or joining some structured conversational groups.