Read out loud

21 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this short instructional segment, Hadar Shemesh advises English learners to read any written material—books, articles, or work emails—out loud. She explains that while silent reading builds passive knowledge, it does not improve speaking fluency. By vocalizing the text, learners convert the time spent reading into active speaking practice, thereby leveraging reading time to enhance oral proficiency.

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read out loud whatever it is that you're reading. Probably a lot of you are reading books or reading articles or maybe reading emails at work anyway in your day-to-day life. Even though it's really good for improving your passive knowledge of English, just reading English is not going to improve your fluency and your speaking abilities. But if you take the time that you need to read a book or read an email and you turn it into active speaking practice, for example, reading it out loud, the time that you spend reading will be leveraged or improved or elevated into a good speaking practice.