How to practise speaking a language alone

• Shadowing: play a short audio clip and say it along with the speaker, a beat behind.
• Sentence building: take an English sentence and say it in your language without looking.
• Narrate your day: describe what you are doing in short sentences, even if they are simple.
• Read aloud: pick a short text and read it at a steady pace, then again faster.
• Record and compare: record yourself, play the original, and listen for the difference.
• Use a checker: an app that listens and marks each word gives you the feedback a partner would.
• Repeat tomorrow: say the same sentences again the next day. Spaced repetition works for speech too.

Start with sentences you will actually use: introductions, ordering food, asking directions, small talk. Ten sentences you can say smoothly are worth more than a hundred words you only recognise.

Practising alone gets you fluent in the mechanics. Add a tutor or exchange partner once you can say a few dozen sentences, so you practise listening to unpredictable replies.