What does it mean to express yourself orally?
Hello.
So, what does it mean to express yourself orally?
First of all, to express oneself is to : intervene in a communication situation
For example: Asking for information
Giving information
– It also means proposing
– Or refusing
In fact, we express ourselves to help someone, to inform them, to advise them, to invite them, but also to apologise, to say what we are going to do, to ask for a favour, etc.
How do we express ourselves?
When you want to express yourself, you first have an idea of what you’re going to say:
saying you want a hotel room or explaining a recipe or saying you have work to do.So to express yourself is at least to have an intention: to inform someone, to know what they want, for example.
And this idea is gradually shaped.
We start with the vocabulary and the rules for combining words in the language.
Then we choose the ones we use according to the situation and the person we are addressing.
Par exemple, vous êtes étudiant et vous voulez inviter quelqu’un. Vous avez a priori de nombreuses possibilités d’expression, comme par exemple : « On pourrait aller au restaurant ce soir « , ou alors » Et si on mangeait ensemble ? », ou encore « Tiens, on se fait une petite bouffe ? « .
Learning to express yourself in a foreign language means :
→ on the one hand, to automate and perfect the mechanism of linguistic formatting, to say what we have to say ;
→ it also means choosing and learning a limited number of formulas that can be used to express ourselves in situations that concern us ;
→ is learning useful words and expressions, and learning how to use them appropriately. For example, if you’re travelling, you need to know how to ask for directions, order a meal or buy a train ticket. ;
→ And finally, it means learning which forms you can use with different people:
We’re going to vary the choice of words we use… We don’t speak in the same way to a friend as to someone we don’t know very well.Now you have a few ideas for expressing yourself orally in the languages you are learning.
Now it’s your turn !
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