You're right. You need a lot of oral training — but oral training of the right kind. Yes. And the great thing is, the self-study course you’ll be doing with the Fluentzy books puts you through the right kind of oral training you need. In fact, the Fluentzy books cover all aspects of oral training that a fluency learner must essentially get.

But remember this: The oral training you need is not just the oral repetition of ready-made lines of situational conversations. Nor is it getting together with a group of people who are not fluent and struggling hard doing a kind of 'speech practice' in non-fluent English among yourselves — in the hope that, one day, your non-fluent English would somehow transform itself into fluent English. (For details, see answer to Q4).

The oral training you need is specialized oral practice in fluency techniques.

For example, the Fluentzy books supply you with collections of specially selected word groups. Large collections. And the Fluentzy books teach you how you should do oral practice with them - by yourself. They're not word groups collected in a random way, but word groups that have been collected systematically and with great care - after a lot of research studies. They're word groups that are ideally suited to fluency training. They have the qualities that are right and appropriate for that purpose. And these word groups can do three things:

1. They can train each of your organs of speech, so your organs of speech start moving, bending and working smoothly in the way that the English language wants them to move, bend and work. You know, the muscles of your organs of speech are in the habit of moving and bending regularly in certain special ways - to suit your mother-tongue. So no matter how hard you force them, they shy at moving and bending in a different set of ways - in the ways that the English language wants them to move and bend. And as long as your organs of speech don't yield to the pressures of the English language, you won't be able to speak fluent English.

2. They can train you, so that words don't stop at the tip of your tongue, but come out as speech units whenever you need them. You begin to get real mastery over the English 'production' vocabulary. And you learn to manipulate these vocabulary items and to juggle with them without difficulty - and to make them fit the moment-to-moment fluctuations of real-life speech situations.

3. They can train you, so you'll be able to express your ideas, thoughts and feelings in a series of speech units one after another. You learn to move smoothly from one speech unit to the next, and to modify and rearrange these units repeatedly, and to make them fit well together.

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