If you are a student, pay attention to your English class. Surround yourself with English. Read English books, and watch English movies.

Moreover, in articulating, freely move your mouth; jaw, tongue, and cheeks, to produce sounds. [1] X Expert Source Patrick MuñozVoice & Speech Coach Expert Interview. 12 November 2019. Don’t just speak with a small mouth. If a sound is a stretched sound, stretch your mouth. If the sound is short, keep it short. [2] X Research source Aspirate sounds that are meant to be. In English, a letter can have two or more sounds. Practice some tongue twisters. Give your mouth exercise. [3] X Expert Source Patrick MuñozVoice & Speech Coach Expert Interview. 12 November 2019.

Try to speak with variations of pitch. As you speak, discourse in normal tone, then shift to high tone for some emphasis, and low tone for a serious tone that can make your listener listen more attentively. You must not stick to one tone. But, make sure that you use intonation appropriately to match what you are saying. Use of inflection makes your talk interesting, climactic. Again, we have three pitches in speaking, the middle or normal, high, and low. There is no such perfect pitch in speaking. Play with your pitches when speaking.

Speaking too fast, but still understandably, will make you sound alive. Your listeners will focus more to what you say, because the fluctuation in speed gets their heed, and they will try to catch your words. Speaking too slowly makes you sound serious and emphatic. Listeners will hear each word and understand it. When you give a pause, at the moment of silence, they will reflect on what you said. Thus, your listeners will feel they are really involved, and they will come to think on the subject being talked about.

Get some articles/texts in books and read them. Then, read it viva voce (orally) and apply the PAIR. Record yourself speaking and check if you did it well. Practice!

Besides, good listeners don’t only listen to experts, they also listen to normal people. If you listen to others and give them chance to speak, you will gain respect. In return, they will listen to you as well.

But, don’t use complex highfalutin words often. Most people will not understand you. Use them minimally.

If you are not comfortable of maintaining eye contact: Try to practice speaking in front of mirror and look to your eyes. Try to look at your listener’s nose if you are a meter away. Your listener won’t notice that you’re actually looking at their nose. If you’re about 2-3 meters away, you may look at your audience’s forehead.

But, don’t just read and read. Read texts/articles from reliable books, websites, and other resources. Be smart in choosing.

Speak and speak and speak to be fluent! Practice and practice and practice to be eloquent.

Choose words that you think you will use often for your daily activities in school, work, and so forth. Choose the words that you usually hear from other people or from TV and movies that you don’t know the meaning.

If you don’t like having a notebook, you may make a list on your phone.

Novels are indeed long and can take time to finish. If you feel overwhelmed, start with short stories then move to longer ones.

Be careful! Avoid talking about general subjects that cover politics, religion, and specific controversial matters. You might offend them about their political and religious views. Sometimes, you are speaking but your listener feels insecure or vexed deep inside.

By deepening and widening your talk, your conversation will grow and will become more meaningful and substantial with facts and opinions. In addition, you will get new information from your listener, and so will your listener. You and your listener hold in your minds the same thing. Both of you stick to the same thought and focus. That is what we call communication.