You don't need perfect

I'm getting from the easiest to the more hard is to try to give some lectures in English. What i'm doing is I'm recording this video.

For example , I am speaking at software conferences . I'm doing train for software companies sometimes and sometimes they're in English . So they invite me from different places in the world and I get there and I speak english, of course .

But I started that when I was a student I was like 17 or 18 years old and in the university . I just volunteered to organize lectures for students in English. Of course, I was studying in Ukraine and everybody were speaking Russian . But some of students were interested to learn english as well and we together decided to organize sort of classes after normal classes, we just got together there were like 10 or 20 of us, just a small group, and one of us was giving the lecture, everybody else were listening . It was allowed only speak english during that one hour and a half . That's how I started when I was a student. You can do the same.

I would recommend that inside your company you have some people in the office who also want to learn english . so tell them, how about we organize lectures once a week, one of us stand in front of everybody else. speaking english, explain us how certain features work in Java. Just tell us something technical which is interesting to know.

So don't tell us about the weather, politics, sport because they'll be boring or not interesting or not relevant to us.

But tell us about the work we do ,so explain , for example , what are you working on right now or explain the design of your solution, something which relevant to our work. But you have to do it in English.

That's sort of you know training for all of us . You speak English . we listen to you. maybe we record that, then you get that video, you can watch it later. you can see how your english is good or bad.

But you practice it , so you practice by talking and the more your talk the larger the practice , the easier it will be for you.

Don't pay attention to mistakes you make.Just make sure people understand you. Don't try to make it the right way .Don't try to say it the right way, but make sure people easily and fast, understand you, and that you know they say that you can really use the language, not only english, but any language if you can explain the meaning of any word using other words.

So let's for example say that I forgot the word lamp . So I have a lamp which is in front of me now, and I have to explain to you what it is. I'm saying it's a round thing which is standing in front of me and it's connected to electricity and in order to make my face brighter for you, it gives me light. Do you understand what I'm talking about? you will say on yes ,it's a lamp.

so I managed to explain to you using other words the meaning of something which i forgot, you can do it with mistakes.

You cannot be perfect in grammar. That's all secondary. It's less important.

What's important is that you can quickly deliver your thoughts quickly . without any hesitation, without any bottlenecks, without waiting and hesitating and thinking and translating, but just delivering your words as fast as you can. That's important and when you give lectures.

that will be a great opportunity for you to train yourself in that, to make sure that you can deliver, because people are sitting in front of you and they're not going to wait for half a minute until you remember that specific word.

They will say okay, whatever just say, just keep going, we will get it later.

And then you will train yourself to just keep going that will be helpful.

Point number 6.

you may want to write in English. Well I write blog. I write my books. I have twitter channel. I have Facebook, I have instagram and everywhere I try to write in english as much as i can. sometimes I use russian, but very rarely.

No because I don't like Russian as a language. I love it . I even have a blog in Russian. but I need to practice, I need to stay in English as much as I can and I feel that more people will be able to get my ideas , to get my thoughts, to read me if I use international language, English is an international language.

It's not anymore the language of Shakespeare . It's not anymore a language like all other languages.

It's not the same as German, as Spanish and it's not the english which english people.

we all know the english, which is very restricted, we know just maybe a thousand words from the english and just four or five tences or how do you call them ..

It's not the language for writing fiction or for writing poems ,no at all .

Of course that English exists as well, But I don't know that language, all I know is just international tool to communicate with other programmers, with business people with people around me.

So that's all I wanted to say. That 's all I know to say actually .