Nhiều bạn thắc mắc không biết phải làm sao để nói tiếng Anh trôi chảy. Thì đây là một mẫu học nói thật tốt. Ông Bill này nói rât nhuyễn, và nghe rất tài. Nhưng nếu ta chú tâm vào cách ông phát âm và cấu trúc văn phạm trong các câu nói, thì thấy rằng ông phạm không biết bao nhiêu lỗi: không bao giờ đọc âm S, đánh sai dấu nhấn (interpreter), các động từ không chia, cách pronoun dùng sai, thế nhưng intonation của ông thật tốt; cho thấy intonation trong một ngôn ngữ quan trọng đến độ nào.

Tuy nhiên, dù ông nói sai và phát âm sai, thì người đối thoại luôn luôn feed back bằng cách lặp lại cho đúng để xác định mình đã hiểu. Từ đó ta cũng thấy ra những sai sót nào khiến người đối thoại không hiểu, và những sai sót nào không quan trọng. Nếu chúng ta nghe ông này nói mà chờ đợi những cấu trúc văn phạm và cách phát âm chuẩn, thì chắc sẽ không nghe rõ bằng người Mỹ kia. 

Sau đây là phần transcript (với tất cả lỗi phát âm và văn phạm) để các bạn kiểm tra cách nghe của mình, từ đó biết thêm một phương pháp học nói của người bất chấp trường lớp! 
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Danl – Ok, so what is your name?
Bill – My name Bill – B I L L – American name
Danl – American name of Bill
Bill – Why, you know why I take American name?
Danl – No, why?
Bill – Before I has my friend. He is American people. I work together in te war
Danl – You worked with him in the war…
Bill – In the preacher..
Danl – Preacher?
Bill – Yeah! Inter-preacher (interpreter)!
Danl – I see!
Bill – Him don’t understand Vietnamese, I tran(late) him englih him understand.
Danl – You speak English pretty well.
Bill – Really?
Danl – Yes.
Bill – I not school. I not leanin’(learning) Englih. I look Amercan movie
Danl – Movies..
Bill – I lean (learn) myself
Danl – Really.
Bill – Yeah!
Danl – Wow.
Bill – Somebody told me: American accent, right?
Danl – Right
Bill – American accent. Everybody come here they see me: hey American accent… no stress.
Danl – No sweat. So you get there from…
Bill – No stress
Danl – No stress then, from the movies.
Bill – Movie, that right!
Danl – That’s right!
Bill – But I wait for my friend 25 year, I don’t know what the hell (really?) when he be back
Danl – He’s never come back huh?
Bill – Maybe old man him die.
Danl – Maybe he died.
Bill – Yes, and today I talk with you, I say, this brother… the best and most beautiful thing…

Danl – Where am I from?
Bill – Yeah!
Danl – I’m from USA, from…
Bill – United State?
Danl – Yes, from Minnesota.
Bill – What state?
Danl – Minnesota. D’you know Minnesota?
Bill – How long you’re been here?
Danl – I’ve been here for 10 days.
Bill – 10 day?
Danl – And this is my second trip to Saigon.
Bill – When you go back United State?
Danl – Tomorrow.
Bill – Tomorrow?
Danl – My last day here.
Bill – Oh my God! Shee you!
Danl – Ok, so, before I run out of here, I want you to tell me again: what you were saying and you have on you hand?
Bill – I say, right: The best and most beautiful thing in the world cannot be seen nor touch … felt in the heart
Danl – The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched but be felt in the heart. Good day, mate.
Bill – Good day, bye! I need company. To be or not to be.
Danl – Uh huh
Bill – You know, that people say, it Shake – peare
Danl – Yeah!
Bill – You know Shake-peare? Yeah! I read the book you know? Oh my God!
Danl – You read the book!… So what are you selling?
Bill – I sell postcard.
Danl – Postcards…
Bill – Day, and to day, I sell postcard and make a living. I have only one daughter, but my daughter is disable
Danl – She’s disable.
Bill – She can not anything at home.
Danl – I see.
Bill – If I can not sell anything in a day I..
Danl – So, let me… let me ask you. You say: What the hell. Have you heard a lot of Americans say that.
Bill – That right.
Danl – Yeah, lots of Americans say that, huh?
Bill – Somebody American say: Hey could you brother man! You go next now! I say: Hey what shup man!
Danl – What’s up man.
Bill – What a happen brother?
Danl – That’s good!
Bill – What a happen brother?
Danl – Uh? A lot say what’s happening?
Bill – Yeah! somebody say that! Isay that! I like that…
Danl – All right!
Bill – …American accent.
Danl – You like the American accent, huh?
Bill – That right
Danl – Wow!
Bill – Everyday I look at American movie
Danl – American movies, yes, you learn the language
Bill – I lean (learn) myself
Danl – I see
Bill – I don’t have teacher.
Danl – You’re your own best teacher.
Bill – Yeah!
Danl – That’s great. OK! So! There! How old’re you?
Bill – Sixty.
Danl – Sixty!
Bill – I cannot a job.
Danl – I am fifty.
Bill – Fifty?
Danl – Yes!
Bill – Zen young brother!
Danl – Yes. Your younger brother.
Bill – I want a job. (yeah) But everybody say: Uh! Old man, get out of here!
Danl – Old man, yeah, you aren’t that old!
Bill – Oh my God! I say: don’t need nothing. No sweat!
Danl – No sweat, it’s right!
Bill – I sell postcard and make the living.
Danl – Uh! No sweat!
Bill – No sweat! not it?
Danl – So how much do I owe you for these postcards?…
Bill – All right… twenty…

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