Start speaking English in 30 days. If the order is right.

Say who you are and what your day looks like. Short sentences, no fear.

The first week is about lowering the cost of opening your mouth. Introductions, your routine, your home, your first café order: things you can say with the words you already have.

Between calls, narrate what you are doing out loud for one minute a day: I am making coffee, I forgot the sugar. Nobody has to hear it.

Order, ask the way, book an appointment, complain politely: the situations you will actually be in.

Real life is a set of scenes with a script you half know. Rehearsing the scene is faster than learning its vocabulary from a list, because the words arrive with their moment attached.

Pick the scene you fear most in real life and write three sentences for it before the call. Say them in the call. Then throw the paper away.

Past, future, opinions, and the words that tie them together: because, so, but, although.

A learner who says "I was tired. I went home." and one who says "I went home early because I was tired" have the same vocabulary. The second sounds like an adult. Connectors are what turn sentences into speech.

Tell the same story twice: once at full length, once in half the time. The second telling is where the connectors appear.

Interviews, meetings, phone calls and a missed flight: speak under a little pressure.

Pressure is what the first three weeks were preparing you for. An interviewer, a support line, an airline desk: the words are the ones you already have; what is new is using them while someone is waiting.

Before the interview days, write down one achievement and one difficult situation you handled. You will be asked.