Some books to improve conversational skills

[Angelic]

Hi
I want to improve my spoken English skills .I'm not fluent in it.So, please suggest me some novels or other stuff which has a lot of dialogues. Moreover guide me with your suggestions.

[Mister Micawber]

Speaking skills do not come from reading. Reading is for building vocabulary. Speaking skills are developed by finding someone, native or non-native, to speak with.
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[Jamie (K)]

[Angelic]

[Mister Micawber]

Your request was "So, please suggest me some novels or other stuff which has a lot of dialogues." Those will help your speaking ability no more than will watching American movies five days a week.

Jamie is right in that "heavy readers speak more fluently and more correctly than those who speak a lot and read less"-- but I disagree with his premises. Such a speaker has also spoken a lot, at least as much as the non-reading speakers; the reader has merely added some notches to his vocabulary. Reading, like listening, is a notoriously passive activity, and reading alone may build your passive vocabulary, but it will do little or nothing to improve your speaking fluency-- your ability to walk up and talk to someone in English.

I cannot judge your current speaking skills, Angelic, but I can tell you that reading instead of finding speaking opportunities will be relatively ineffective in improving them.
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[Jamie (K)]

Micawber, I was disagreeing with your categorical statement that reading does not help people learn to speak better, and that the only thing that helps speaking is speaking. Stated as you did, it's simply not true. Reading does help people learn to speak better, and even writing helps improve their speech.

Also, you don't seem to understand that reading does more than improve vocabulary. It also teaches the learner grammatical structures that are not encountered in other forms of language study, and that can't be learned just through self-directed speaking practice. It's useful for more than just learning words.

You're right that one can't learn to speak without speaking, but reading does more than just build vocabulary. It's especially necessary for people who have a bad habit of calquing from their own language when they speak.

[Mister Micawber]

As a passive method, it remains the poorer choice, Jamie. Readers read for content, if anything. They do not examine the grammatical structure.
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[Angelic]

[Mister Micawber]

Not an easy situation, especially if that's what your language classes are like: written material to read. I can offer you this comfort: studies show that it is not critical to speak with native speakers-- if you can find a friend or acquaintance who is willing to try as hard as you to speak in English, then the level of proficiency is relatively unimportant: both will make progress.
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[MariaEbb]

A very good way of improving your speaking skills in English is to attend a language travel or just take a trip to an English speaking country like Great Britain or New Zealand for example. If you just think you have a very limited speaking skill you ought to visit an English speaking country on a arranged bus trip for tourists. Then you don't "have to" speak English just if you like.
But what will happen if we get ill in an English speaking country and don't know so much English???
/Maria